What are you supposed to do with bin bags when the council doesn’t allow you a wheelie bin?

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1. Get good quality black bags, tie them up before they get too full and tie them up well. Don’t use the drawstring type (I think tie-top is best but tie-handle works too). If there’s a gap when you tie them consider covering it with some cheap duct tape (like the 3M value dct tape that Lidl sells intermittently). Avoid putting anything in them that is likely to make a hole in the bag. Consider double-bagging. Get a plastic container with a lid to store tied-up bags in before they go out (what sort of container depends on what space you have). Consider separating out any “clean” waste and storing it separately to reduce the space required for “dirty”/smelly waste.

2. Does your council issue stout bin sacks?

   Ours does because where we live we have a seagull problem.

3. It is your landlord’s responsibility to ensure there is appropriate storage for waste between collection days. You should ask him to work with you on a better solution. If it has to be that space, is there room for stackable plastic storage boxes or something? They won’t hold a whole black bag’s worth, but if you have bagged waste from smaller bins you could box them and only load up the black bags just before you put them out?

   In the meantime can you minimise the smell by reducing food waste, making sure to rinse food containers clean before binning and double wrapping things most likely to smell?

4. If there is space for a wheelie bin I’d just buy one and use that

5. Just buy an old fashioned tin bin from a hardware shop, that’s what we do, and keep them in there outside until bin day.

6. Have this exact problem (with a London Borough Council)

   No wheelie bin, leave bags out the night before and foxes get to them!

   I’ve had to resort to doing it JUST as the bin men pull up onto the street

7. We have the same issue – not allowed wheely bins. The council sent round letters and came round in person to say that the rubbish absolutely cannot be put out even the day before, and when I asked if they expected me to get up at 4am (the bins are usually collected at around 5am, though it can be later) they actually said yes.

   Everyone ignores them and puts their rubbish out whenever because there just isn’t space to do anything else.

   There is actually space for wheely bins, and there’s also space for communal bins nearby (on land owned by the council) and I have written to the council suggesting that, but they ignored it.

8. Used to live in this situation. Stored binbags in dustbins in garden. For binday put binbags in street.

9. Does your council take food waste for recycling? If so, use this and your bin will barely smell.