Glennn
A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSCI learned a new word today.
'Binfluencer'
That's the guy on your street who puts the correct bin out early each week, thus signalling to everyone else which one they need to take out.
Cary@Anomnomnomaly Always relied on the status of my neighbor's bins to know when there was a holiday delay for pick-up.
2xfo@crenquis @Anomnomnomaly
See, that's when i THINK I'm being a binfluencer (which i am, but I'm wrong)
See, that's when i THINK I'm being a binfluencer (which i am, but I'm wrong)
Lizzie---@Anomnomnomaly hahahahahahaahahaha
Full Metal Archaeopteryx
Morning@Anomnomnomaly I’m always thankful for the binfluencers.
Joseph Elfelt@Morning1 @Anomnomnomaly You're welcome - said a binfluencer.
Tonya Marie 🏳️⚧️@Anomnomnomaly Where is that a thing? Where I am, all bins go out on the same day, and trucks for each come by at different times.
Ari "Second Breakfast" JacksonIn my city certain types of bins are only picked up every two weeks, and the city sends out emails letting us know when the schedule will change due to holidays or they won't be picking up things like yard waste because of weather or the compost facility being closed.
It turns out that most people aren't even on their email or text list, which is typical for this city, assuming that everybody checks their website and signs up, which barely anyone really ever does.
Most of our neighbors just leave all of their bins higgledy-piggledy out on the alley anyway. My three immediate next-door neighbors are the only ones besides me that I know who bother to drag their bins back either into their garages or next to their house. So, I guess I had a little bit of binfluence on that?
PetraWhere I live, the recycling bin and the rubbish bin go out on alternate weeks. The garden waste goes once a month but only from late spring to Autumn, and they are about to introduce a second type of recycling bin for paper and cardboard I think, so who knows when that will be collected.
If there is a bank holiday, then all bets are off as to when it will be collected. Only the binfluencer knows
In the UK, in some towns/cities you have multiple types of bins and collections.
For us, we have recycling bins and food waste that go out every week and a black household waste bin that goes out every three weeks.
At my old place, it was household one week, recycling the next.
In my old city that I moved from a few years ago... I heard they'd changed to about 3 or 4 different wheelie bins... and it's a disaster because so much of the original towns are victorian terraces with limited access for people to store bins, let alone put them out as they clog the pavements.
@Anomnomnomaly Yeah, we have a blue bin for mixed recycling (certain hard plastics, metal, glass, paper) and a green bin for "send to landfill" and a grey bin for yard/compost. All go out on the same day and are serviced by different trucks throughout the day.
clew“green bin for "send to landfill" and a grey bin for yard/compost”
Not the other way around with the color coding? Terrible!
JoeJoeTom (aka Eerie Tom)@TonyaMarie @Anomnomnomaly Here in #PortlandOR, all bins are picked up weekly on the same day (except holidays) EXCEPT trash, which is picked up every other week.
@Anomnomnomaly this is as close to "influencer" as I will ever get in my lifetime.
marlies 
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
don@Anomnomnomaly yeah, I have Jeff for that.
TayFoNay, Sigh-D
Peter 💙 StevensWhat'd be the name for someone who *might* put the wrong bin out early just to see who copies them?
softproof@Anomnomnomaly Not only funny, but by way of added bonus reminded me to put my bin out.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Madagascar_Sky
Robin Barton@Anomnomnomaly We have one on our street and it is not me
thriftwicker@Anomnomnomaly Go bin man! Yeah bin man!
The Penguin of Evil@Anomnomnomaly Yep we had one of those, the day he got it wrong was a disaster 8)
Edith Mair 💙💛Have you filed claims for damages?
konayuki@Anomnomnomaly Our binfluencer moved. I don't know how we are going to cope! Who's going to step up?
Gailen@Anomnomnomaly
What happens if they put the wrong bin out? I think a social experiment is in order.
What happens if they put the wrong bin out? I think a social experiment is in order.
🏴🏳⚧🏴☠the English obsession with bins is fascinating
there's a running gag on Trashfuture podcast about the Bin Men and their rugged masculinity
Shaun McDonald@Anomnomnomaly or in the winter when I put out a bin 3 days early as the garden waste isn't collected in the winter and the neighbour copied me. Totally throws me for a few months in winter when you have to request the garden waste bin (and then I forget and the bin man comes into the back garden to take the garden waste bin out).
DragonFlame@Anomnomnomaly
They deserve a 🥇
They deserve a 🥇
Lance (Thank you for 11 Views)@Anomnomnomaly Both our recycle and trash bins get emptied early Tuesday morning.
I'll never be a binfluencer under these conditions.
BlingtheCat@Anomnomnomaly Oh crap, it’s us.
PK2061@Anomnomnomaly
In Germany we don’t say binfluencer, we call just call them Rentner.
In Germany we don’t say binfluencer, we call just call them Rentner.
Herr TurTur@Anomnomnomaly
Can be used for tomfoolery, though. "Oh, i just wanted to show my bin to the sun again because of the moss on it."
Other types of fun: Scraping your snow shovel across the tarmac at five in the morning in october
Can be used for tomfoolery, though. "Oh, i just wanted to show my bin to the sun again because of the moss on it."
Other types of fun: Scraping your snow shovel across the tarmac at five in the morning in october
penpencilbrush🇨🇦@messieass Noting that second one down in the calendar for Oct 2026. Metal shovel 0500h.😂 🤣 @Anomnomnomaly
Jeff MacKinnon@Anomnomnomaly That was us, until we put the wrong bin out one week and realized too late, everyone else followed and we were the only ones to get ours picked up. Since then we wait till someone else puts their's out first.
acm@Anomnomnomaly Where I am, the tendency is not to notice holidays that delay pickup, so to be a Binfluencer, you'd have to be the one putting out a sign that says "NOT UNTIL FRIDAY!"
Michael Giesler@Anomnomnomaly That’s the reason I have a house with a bay window: so I don’t have to go outside to see which bin is due.
Cegorach@Anomnomnomaly We germans are soooo boring… we even outsourced our 'binfluencers' towards city council.
Theres been printed calendars around for decades - and now there's sometimes even per-house iCal-files you can import.
Theres been printed calendars around for decades - and now there's sometimes even per-house iCal-files you can import.
@Anomnomnomaly There was a "Binazi" in my apt complex. Before he moved in, it was a cooperative effort: someone would just take out the bins. Nobody had to be asked or reminded.
But when the "Binazi" moved in, he bought desk calendars for everyone and put our names on a rotating schedule. I get he thought he was trying to help, but if it was "John's" day to put out the bins and "Mary" decided to do it just to be nice, the Binazi would berate her and make her put them back! 🙄
IshambardNot all heroes wear capes
bit101@Anomnomnomaly we have private trash pickup in my town and 2-3 different providers, who pick up on different days. It's chaos out here.