How revolting especially in the summer months. Totally disgusting, what are we paying our council tax for. I will write and this does happen I will throw my rubbish in the streets for them to deal with as a protest!
I really dont fancy maggot city in my bins, its bad enough once a week!

Our youngest gets through about 50-60 nappies a week. Come Monday morning our bin stinks even though the nappies are tied in a sealed plastic bag. I dread to think what the stench would be like after two weeks in even fairly mild weather.

I won't mention the maggot infestation we had in the height of summer. Oh, sorry. I just did.

I received a letter from the council a few days ago stating that all refuse/waste must be placed outside for collection between the hours of 5pm-6pm Monday to Saturday and that these hours are strictly enforced! Are the council assuming that we are all unemployed? I for one don't get home from work until at least 7pm. Numpties!

Now we have all been leafleted about the roll out of this to Stroud Green, no one here seems to think it worth discussing. For myself I am not particularly worried. However, there is some momentum gathering on our local councillor's website.

This happens where my mum lives and it is a nightmare for families.  If you over fill your bin they refuse to empty it.  Also if your collection happens to fall on a bank holiday that's just tough luck you have to wait 3 weeks to get your bin emptied. 

Having read the leaflet I think it's a fine idea. We barely throw anything in the bin anyway and we get some free storage boxes in to the equation!

vetski, re your hedge, you can get half-sized wheelie bins, and half-size recycle wheelie bins too.

If you never really fill the big, standard-size wheelie, nor more than a single recycle box, then the smaller bins might do, and fit your space?

ii have had the smaller wheelie bin for a while now, and the front garden seems less "occupied" than i did with the full-size wheeli.

shorter, leaner, and altogether better to look at

@gardener-joe - thanks for this - we've just had another jumbo wheelie bin 'dumped' in our little front garden (trashing our flowers to squeeze it in). The old recycling box was just right for our small family but now our garden is looking like a wheelie bin storage site... did you get your 'lean' wheelie bin from this "Veolia" outfit or the council?

Yes @gardener-joe, I was a bit bemused by the fact that they don't offer to remove the old box.  Bonkers.

Our neighbours got large recycling wheelies. All we got was a bunch of green plastic bags. Why? We have just as much space as anyone else on our street.

Were we also supposed to get a food recycling box? Again, we only got some bags. No small bin for the kitchen, no larger big outside. I'm happy to recycle as much as I can, but they don't make it easy.

This is my time to be positive.  Love the new big recycling bins.  I can store all my recycling in one little bin in my kitchen and put it out a few time a week in the bigger recycling bin. As they say in their leaflet you can use it for storage, and I think it fits nicely under a bed. These boxes usually cost over £5.   If you really don't want it, donate it to Miss Annie.  I'm sure she'll put them to good use.  

I thought the Stapleton  was having a roof garden, the old plastic boxes would be great for that ?

Rainbow we got delivered three green wheelie bins despite only having one black refuse bin outside. Veolia said they would remove the extra two but have yet to pick them up. You can have one of them.

I'm so pleased I don't live in Haringey. Our recycling and rubbish collection is regular as clockwork.