Do you clean your wheelie-bin?

MooMoo444 said:
I take it when you put the bins out, it's ambiguous as to which house they belong to? Our council are only allowed to empty one bin per house unless it's one of the special "approved" ones with a special coloured lid.
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One is numbered and the other 2 have red stars on.
 
I clean ours about once or twice a year using the pressure washer.

Most of the "smelly" rubbish goings in bagged up.

I can't really see the point of cleaning them every few weeks/month unless you're putting dirty/smelly waste in the bin directly, in which case the chances are it's going to stink by the end of the two weeks between it being emptied.
 
I clean the black one for standard waste once a month, its never really that dirty as all waste is bagged before going into the bin. Never bother cleaning the blue recycling bin as it only contains paper, cardboard etc. All bottles or cans are rinsed clean before being put in the bin. We've also got brown bins for garden waste, but its rarely used as my yards are paved and have little in the way of plants.
 
Nope, my main wheelie bin is ~10 years old and I think I've wiped the lid over once but not cleaned inside and I wouldn't say it's smelly. Garden waste and recycling bins have never been cleaned at all (although the recycling one looks like it needs it top wiping.
 
I'll occasionally give it a blast with the pressure washer if it honks but nothing as a matter of routine. Everything is going in bags anyway, no need to faff about too much.
 
We used to have a green wheelie bin for landfill, a large red and blue box for recycling and a brown for garden. But now we have a small blue for landfill, the green is now recycling, a black one for food, the brown for garden and the blue box for glass and small electrical.
And if at any time there is something in a bin that the collectors do not like then it will remain unemptied until you can figure out what is in there that upsets them as they do not leave any clues to the offending item. Lets us not forget it is our job to move them up a small flight of stairs along a corridor down another small flight of stairs and place them neatly at the curbside. It is their job to empty them and then leave them in a muddle blocking the pavement. Should anything drop from the bin it is not the collectors job to pick it up, health and safety don't you know?


And no they do not get cleaned.
 
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