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Is there a legal minimum size bin per flat?
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Your local council may or may not have guidance on this:
e.g. Spelthorne Council Guidance says the equivalent of 2 x 240L bins per flat.
See what they say and approach your management company if insufficient..
e.g. Spelthorne Council Guidance says the equivalent of 2 x 240L bins per flat.
See what they say and approach your management company if insufficient..
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Why? You looking for something else to have a whinge about?
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That's a rubbish question.
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Above average is about right
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Burn any combustible rubbish, any objections cite your religious beliefs and intimidate people. `Tis the new way of doing things apparently
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No but my friend lives in a flat and her communal bins have been replaced by household wheelie bins. Her block of 12 flats have just 7 wheelie bins. Bin area now is always in a mess.
Google "how to contact a council" - you'll be amazed at what you can achieve when you put your mind to it.
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thought it was going to be about glasses and hats
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Get in touch with the council is your best bet they almost certainly have rules on what they will empty/collect/allow for refuse collection. 7 bins for 12 flats isn't in anyway enough IMO if the communals here were replaced by something like that there'd be chaos its bad enough as it is
No, there isn't a legal minimum bin size that the council must supply. In fact, there's no requirement for them to supply you with a bin at all. Most councils will replace broken/lost bins for free but new builds usually have to buy their bin (or the developer has to buy them for communal use bins).
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Most councils don't provide recycling bins for large blocks of flats. As probably had experience of the thicko tenants using them for normal rubbish. Another friend lives in a block of 16 flats and they don't have any recycling. She takes her recycling to her gran's - she lives in a house at the bottom of the estate.
My block has 12 flats with 1 bin and 1 recycle. It's not enough and really could do with 1 extra of each. Of course the 'people' who also live here don't help the matter such as not breaking down boxes and instead leaving them on the floor blocking access.. etc
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The habit of not breaking down boxes, squashing cans etc happens everywhere. As a litter womble, we find uncrushed cans, tv boxes with the foam/cardboard bits inside. Plus when we had those storms in the winter, someone down my road puts in uncrushed cans into their recycling bin, which blew over in the storms. The noise of several cans rolling about is very annoying. It takes half a second to squeeze a can which doesn't roll about in the wind.
My old block had two 1100L bins (bought by the managing agent) for ~20 apartments.
3 of the council supplied big wheely bins for cardboard/paper (increased from 1)
4 of the council supplied big wheely bins for mixed recycling. (increased from 2)
3 of the council supplied big wheely bins for cardboard/paper (increased from 1)
4 of the council supplied big wheely bins for mixed recycling. (increased from 2)