Kamike

Are they worth anything?

Had our fourth nicked the other night along with five others on the street, a white van turned up picked them up and gone never to be seen again. Are they worth anything?

But why?


NOTE
This is not a "how much is it worth or for sale thread"

BM08

I dont know but the council dont like giving bins out i know that

We keep filling ours so we asked for one more, but no were not allowed, guess we will just have to throw the rubbish in the hedge then

Kamike

I did have one bin and its collected once a fortnight but now I have to wait 5 weeks for a new one and the binmen will not collect rubbish unless its in a black bin

Ed1

The dust bin lorry ate ours a few months back, we got a nice new one!

They dont mind giving new ones out but you are only allowed one per household otherwise, its all worked out on council tax amounts etc!

BM08

We got two, one for normal waste like your kitchen bins etc and another for cardcard board etc.

Theres 3 of us in this house but if we had one more they would give us another bin

Ed1

Yeah, you are only allowed one per colour, i.e 1 Black one, 1 Green one, 1 Blue one!

dvid

3 of us in our house and we have 2 of each

Claimed we couldnt get to the tip to dispose of extra waste as my wife couldnt leave the house with our disabled foster child and I work

Matt Evans

back to the OP, i've NO idea why anyone would want to steal a wheely bin. Unless the plastic is worth a lot??

kilvo

iTrader: (1)

they are only good to burn by chavs, we have two green two black, one brown and two little black ones, oh and two blue ones, i wish some foooker would nick mine as they are just in the bloody way, i only live in a two bed house lol

doctor stavros

I live in a house split into two flats, with no gardens, so essentially two households. We get a green bin, a blue bin and a black bin. Green for gardening waste, blue for recyclable plastic / metal, and black for general waste. Twice.

So thats 6 bins in my very limited front yard Fuckin council.......

Stu @ Claims Care Centre

iTrader: (1)

i have 4 bins 2x green 2x black
dont know how people live with 2 tbh!! we fill ours up in about 4 days

Graceland

We have 4 here aswell

Green = recycle - so thats anything that isn't food or garden waste
Grey = everything else

We have 2 of each, they are all the massive versions aswell and not he standard size

Benni

2 of each here too.

Elvis

iTrader: (1)

we got 2 black ones.

Kamike

But does any one ever get theirs nicked?

G950KDT

iTrader: (2)

never had the bins itself nicked but a few months ago it was common to see tonnes of them without wheels!

must just be pikeys nicking them for the local sites so they can save cash...like they need to at that!

kitted_escort

they might be making some thing out of em, as a kid i used to make go karts out of them, sad i know

BM08

nope, its in our back garden.

Pete frst

i hear there was a euro wide waiting list for bins,cudnt make em quick enuf........

Kamike

Probably why mine keeps getting half inched

natehall

iTrader: (2)

not unless there nicking them so they can have 2 themselves - and put them out on the street to get em emptied, gives them a nice half dozen for the ones that dont get returned - never had mine stolen - but filled by local scum

we lock ours round the back now to prevent that!

Kamike

Im going to nick your now Nate

St3V3_C

I found it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/wheely-bin_W0Q...1%7C240%3A1318

LOL. I guess quite a lot of people want more than one, and those blokes selling them at a tenner a time or something are making easy money.

Dicko&Vacant

iTrader: (3)

our council wont give us an extra one and there are 5 of us in our house, we have a green for food waste, brown for garden waste, blue box for tins and bottles, white bag for plastics and blue bag for paper

we recycle everything too and the standard bin is still full ( we only get fortnightly refuse collections grrrr )

Mr S1

iTrader: (2)

Typical jobsworths. Mine won't collect unless it's in a black bag. If I put a white bin liner out they won't even take it. What fucking difference it makes I have no idea.

Kamike

They will not take rubbish thats not in a wheely bin decause they are not allowed to lift them, or thats the excuss the bin man gave to my mum when she asked why the walked past the bag. She picked it up herself and lobbed it in the back of the lorry

999

we called em other day and asked for a biger recycling bin and 2 days later they dropped off two new bins and there loads wider than the others was well impressed

matts1

they want to start charging 50 quid a bin in cov lol!!

People will nick them to use for themselves. Had one of ours go missing, then it turned up a few weeks later after they had finished with it.

1.9 xr2 on 40's

i sometimes put both ours ut if i cant remember if its green (recyc) or black (rubbish)

either way they just empty em both into the lorry

then dont give a fuck, shows that they aint really getting recycled huh

slim20012

not had our big bins nicked but back in the day the locals used to nick the lil tub ones

.Pete.

Green ones get nicked to see if there are any bank / personal details in them. Mum had hers nicked a few weeks ago, but then next door neightbours was left there, and they were right beside each other.

Cossy Mike

iTrader: (4)

Had ours stolen and the Council said I had to go on a waiting list. 4 days later it was up against my back gate?

odd, it must have ran away from home and come back when it was hungry

StephenC

Definately reckon its for someone to use for themselves. Theres 5 of us in our house with the 2 bins, one recycle one anything goes. Were on two weekly emptying and with 3 kids that just isnt practicle! It fucking stinks after 7 days and gets full round about then too. I asked council for a larger general bin, dont do them was there response. Its a joke. All i do now is burn everything, ive got an old oil drum in the back yard and I put everything and anything in it and have a fire once a week. Put the ashes in the general bin and problem solved. They wont take anything thats not in the bin but the sponging work shy twats over the road just chuck everything onto the path outside the house and the council take it away!!! Country has gone mad. Back to original post, I would myself consider borrowing someone elses bin so my kids dont have to hold my hand whilst I stand in the bin trying to compact everything in but havent got around to it yet. Wonder if they nick them to swap with dirty ones so they can just swap them and say they've cleaned them to them that pay for them jet washing and shit rather than actually doing it???

Dan1281

20 quid a peice on ebay? you could easily rob Ł500 worth in a night lol

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

If they are refusing to remove the black bin bags as the wheely bin has been stolen then report them to environmental health for causing a health hazard I had this problem as my house had been empty from before they introduced wheely bins.

One complaint to environmental health and a tipper transit (used for litter bin emptying round here) turned up later in the day to take my black bin bags

-beefy-

iTrader: (6)

we have 1 bin ,

if we fill it ,

we use the neighbours

simple as that

beef