No bins on Club Site

Afternoon

Personally I don't think it's a good idea having large wheelie bins with the lids propped open, especially recycled items. There's a fire risk, maybe a stray cigarette tossed in, the risk of stuff blowing out everywhere, smell, risk of hazardous items being exposed etc etc. Fro my experience, and I think jvb has mentioned above, a normal dustbin placed next to the wheelie bin for anyone can't lift the heavy lids works well. 

JK

you can please all the people some of the time ...... 🙄

Good heavens if you cannot lift the lids how do you manage to caravan? In my experience, many of the larger bins found on other sites have counter balanced lids and are not that difficult to open.

peedee

Some even have slots PD, no lid lifting at all required. I agree with JK, you don’t want bulk refuse container lids left open. 

…..risk of the lid falling onto someone's arm? 😫

Thing I find amusing is that folk carry much heavier full laden shopping bags to the units, admittedly over a shorter distance maybe, but complain about much lighter waste bags from their vans. 🤪

Afternoon

Eurobins (1100lt), what we have aren't designed to be propped open. Therefore whatever is used for the job has to be homemade. In the event as TW says above that the prop for whatever reason failed and someone was hurt I wonder what the HSE would have to say. 

We had a brief a long while ago that nothing home made is to be used on site where there's a risk of harm to anyone, so unless the bin companies supply such a propping device the bins on my site would stay closed. If anyone has trouble lifting the lid there's always someone to give assistance.

As far as savings go, I use on average £8 worth of bin bags a week so around £200 per season. In the low season I do the bin run with a wheelbarrow so no fuel used (good exercise!). I'd gain around an hour and a half per day which would easily get soaked up maintaining 11 acres of grounds so negligible. The cost of bin uplifts has as with everything that's connected to the use of an engine (bin wagon) skyrocketed so any savings made on site instantly disappear.

JK

A lot of that shopping will end up as food waste in those bins micky! Shocking what people throw out.

JK

When I had my apartment in Spain, there was no individual bin. At various strategic points there were wheelie bins and you took your own waste there. The lid was opened by standing on a foot rail. Collection was by a single driver who didn't even vacate his cab. He stopped alongside, waggled a few levers and the bin was emptied and replaced untouched by human hand. Very efficient. Collection was generally daily.

Do you check those best before dates, JK? What a waste not to!😉