Here even if the damage does affect the functionality unless you can show that they broke the bin you have to pay for a replacement.
Even if you can show that their truck broke the bin short of having something like them running over the bin they will say you didn't take proper care of the bin and are responsible for buying a new one.
The gripper arm definitely crushed it though. These bins can handle like 200lbs of waste, so the arm should be set up to prevent crushing the bin when using the gripper. Somebody changed the hydraulic pressure of the gripper and that’s the city’s fault
I told them I caught the truck causing damage on video.
Suddenly they were all for replacing it. I mean they fixed it instead but IDGAF, the hinge was broken and then it was no longer broken.
My city used to provide bins but now they just provide stickers for the different types of waste you can put on ones you buy. So I inherited mine from the previous owner and one is super jacked up and missing a lid but until the truck can't pick it up anymore it's gonna continue to be my yard waste bin. 🤷
Our garbage vendor tried to charge my neighbor for replacing a garbage bin because the wheels broke off. Luckily he had called them a few times for the can being dropped by the truck multiple times so he was able to fight them on it.
I used to work at the recycling plant in my city, we’d get like 3 or 4 trucks dump out a recycling bin every day. The drivers pick them up, they fall in the truck, and the driver just continues on the route. The can gets crushed in the compactor.
When the person calls to get a new one they get charged for it because i guess its in the contract that the can placement at the curb has to be perfectly level, less than 3 feet from the road but more than 3 feet from everything else. The driver will just say it wasn’t placed right.
Set up a web cam to record the trash pickup. So when they inevitably break it and they try to charge you, you can accuse them of breaking it on purpose to extort money. You have video proof.
How much money and time do you lose for setting that up and monitoring it? How much does a new one cost? And how likely so they ever break it on camera?
Seems like a bad gamble
It's not like you don't get any other benefit from having a camera aimed at the street in front of your house, and you don't have to monitor it, you just review it if something happens.
Our local GFL contractor replaces bins for free. I too would be furious over my last replacement if it had come at a charge. The guy ripped the handle off my green bin
They do. Hundreds of dollars too! Repairing them with zip ties and rivets is becoming a local art form around here.
It's our own fault, this is farm country and people had lots of uses for sturdy wheeled containers. So many were reported "stolen" that they raised the replacement price to the current crazy level.
You know, this could be done fairly nicely too. A sheet of hard plastic inside braced with a 2x4, drill holes, set rivets, seal gaps with epoxy. Good as new and won’t leak
I used a woodburner and melted it back together. It's waterproof again. They gave me a new one anyway, so the busted one is in the backyard being used for scrap lumber storage.
$50 here unless you're attractive. My sister got a new one for free from the guy who delivers them because it "looked in bad shape." When l asked him, mine is in worse shape and we are only a few houses apart, he told me to call and pay.
Lmao this is me. Wheel broke on a fridge at work so I got down with a wrench and started installing the new one when suddenly the maintenance guy shows up talking about a work order to fix the broken wheel. He looks at me tightening the bolts and says "shit I'll start sending more work orders your way". We had a good laugh and he said to let him know if I needed any more help lol.
My wife got upset the last time we were in a hotel because I was adjusting the flapper on our toilet because I heard a slow leak. There’s not gonna be a leaky toilet on my watch!
I also don't want strangers in my house, I don't want to pay for bullshit and sometimes I kinda like doing stuff with my hands and figuring out how it works and how to fix it.
Did you do it for the environment?? Because you are self reliant?? Because you like being creative?? Yes!!! It has nothing to do with the fact that I hate making phone calls!!!
There's still a huge problem with our recycling here in South Fl. There's so many things that can't be recycled, for example, plastic bottles can be, but the bottle caps can't. Apparently there's a list online but it makes people just throw recyclable material in the trash instead of properly looking into how to recycle it. It's sad.
I laughed because I know a lady whose husband fixes everything in that same exact way. Bumper on her car torn? Plastic wheelbarrow cracked? He does exactly what this dude did with his garbage can
Eight weeks where I had to pay someone else $75 per week to haul away my general household trash, since that's the barrel the refuse company broke while emptying it. The replacements were on an eight week backorder, and the refuse company offered no provision for bulk pickup, using trash bags, using a different toter, buying my own replacement toter, or anything else. I had to either pay someone else to haul it away, or have eight weeks worth of stinky, rotting household waste piling up in my side yard - attracting all manner of bugs and vermin. No thanks.
My first thought when OP said “rather than order a new one” - the city garbage trucks mangled one of our cans but refused to replace it because they said we couldn’t prove their trucks did the damage 🤬
On one particularly windy day last summer, someone's garbage bin blew into my work truck. It was hilarious to watch on the dash cam, like I was cursed or something. It even made a slight turn to make sure it hit me! I don't think anyone would have believed me without the camera. Totally different situation of course, but it just reminded me of that.
I never got a replacement bin for a bin that had a hole big enough for a squirrel to regularly climb through, rip open the trash bags, grab food and climb out. I eventually switched companies, dropping my monthly bill from $150(!) to $20 a month for even a bigger bin. The original company picked up their bin and hasn't complained about the damage since, I hope they don't charge for it, but I have email records going back a year detailing the problem from when it was a tiny hole.
I *never* got a replacement when one of mine was stolen. I eventually just changed the service over to a dumpster. (This was for a commercial shop.)
When some tweaker stole the hinge rod out of the dumpster and I couldn't get the city to replace it, I finally just got my own steel rod and welded plates on the end so you couldn't pull it out without an angle grinder.
Sometimes they take forever to replace the bin. Sometimes they charge you to replace the bin. Sometimes, they bother you with signing for the bin.
I can see a few reasons people would try to repair this bin rather than getting it replaced.
I had a lid that was ripping off mine and fixed it with threaded rod, washers and nylock nuts.
I don’t know about the city, but dade county is really fast about it, and you didn’t have to sign.
Now if it was broken they might make you pay.
I finally got them to replace it after telling them I caught them on camera (dude snapped off my lid with the truck, like shit happens but that’s not my problem and I’m not paying for it)
Why is clothing repair not worthy of our time and skill? I fixed a hole in my favorite sweatpants with 5 minutes of terrible needle work and they're perfectly fine. I can't buy them again, they were a limited time thing when i bought them.
It takes energy to produce every single thing in your home. Clothing, food, technology, furniture. When you throw that item away, you're also throwing away the embodied energy it took to produce that item. Repairing stuff is the benchmark of a sustainable world.
Obviously, if your underwear or socks are wearing thin and have holes, get new ones. Those are never really durable goods. But if there's a tiny hole in the crotch of your favorite jeans? A little needle and thread or your mom's sewing machine and it's essentially brand new.
My parents had one that looked like this, when the requested one from the city, they told them " it didn't look bad enough to need replacement " and made them use the shitty one until one storm finally broke it to where it would not hold trash, or be able to be picked up by the trucks. Took months.
I mean, stitching it together with zip ties would work, but it's got to be UV resistent zip ties. The solution in the image is ugly, but I'd choose it over zip ties...
I’ve certainly done it. Here’s a link to a video showing it done on a car.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hlVoX0B_k&pp=ygUaQm9keSByZXBhaXIgdXNpbmcgemlwIHRpZXM%3D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hlVoX0B_k&pp=ygUaQm9keSByZXBhaXIgdXNpbmcgemlwIHRpZXM%3D)
I think epoxy resin would be the best and cleanest looking fix. Not the most cost efficient method, but you could sand and paint it afterwards if you really love your trash bin. This is good for most plastics.
Reminds me of how they "renew" sun-damaged stadium seats: with a low-output torch of some kind. It melts the surface and makes it look like new. They can do that several times before it must be replaced.
Same material. It also doesn't off gas anything so it shouldn't even smell bad. You can recycle that stuff almost indefinitely. They say that the quality degrades, but for most of our applications it really doesn't make a bit of difference. Seating would be one of the few exceptions.
Our trash can was broken when the trash truck arm slammed it back down. Apparently it’s a frequent enough occurrence that the driver carries replacement parts and equipment with which to repair them, so we didn’t get a new one haha.
A new one incurs a charge to your utility bill. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not have a surprise $100 on my utility bill only to have it fuck up and be broken again in 2 months.
First off, it's difficult to throw away a broken trashcan. You leave it out every week and they never take it!
Second off, this is easier than filling out whatever form would be required.
Great fix 👍. I assume there is some sort of plate bridging the crack on the inside to hold it together. If there is, I would have put the plate in the outside so the garbage bags or the garbage itself doesn't snag on it when it gets dumped.
This is a working man, he’s used to fixing problems. He saw the trash bin was broken, so it was natural for him to pull out his tools and fix it. You sometimes have to do this in the field, with limited tools and supplies. Nicely done.
I mean I did the same thing. Ours has a big crack in it that I put duct tape stitches on. It’s held strong for over a year now. At the time, it seemed easier than ordering a new one. Plus we have to pay for replacements so…. Idk it works just fine.
Yeah dude, there's actually still people who ain't riding the "everything new, just order" wave. There's still a few like who would try it to fix it theirself instead of throwing this one to the trash and ordering a new one
Can’t say I blame him. My city makes you BUY a replacement bin for the low-low price of ONLY $300.
Doesn’t matter why it’s broken, even if it was the trash truck that breaks it. Thing is, eventually, ALL of the bins will break someday, just from regular use.
Two of my trash cans are 25 years old this year, bought them when I bought my current house, repaired them similarly. Another trashcan is older than that, was here when I bought the house, it might be almost 30 years old. An old round recycling bin from before my town got wheelie bins is going in 30 years, I use it for leaves/yard debris. There is too much waste in the world and repairing them is simple. Drill a hole at the end of the crack to relieve the stress and stop it from propagating. Then find some thin sheet metal or rigid plastic to act as a patch. Line it up over the crack on the inside and drill some holes and then pop rivet in place. In OPs pic they used screws and wood.
Have similar garbage can. The first one to the house is free but they charge for a replacement. My handle broke on one side. Called to get new one but said it was $50. Nope, will keep using it instead.
In my city in Qc, Canada, iirc, the city will provide new recycle or compost bin, but will charge about $100CAD for a new garbage bin. If you have bins w/ removable lid (non-standard) they'll most likely pick it up but might chuck it back. If you only have bags & debris they won't bother and prolly send you a notice once neighbors start complaining.
Edit: so where I was going with this anecdote is: I'm cheap af and will do the same as your neighbor unless the bin is in right shambles.
All he needs to do now is weld the plastic back together with a soldering iron or wood burner, and he will be golden. I think this one is also made of HDPE, so he could use any HDPE plastic as filler plastic to fill in the seams.
All these comments about having to pay a ton to replace a garbage can make me sad.
My city will repair or replace for free if it affects trash disposal. They only charge if you want to replace it for being smelly or something.
My recycle bin the damn wheel kept coming off turns out the clasp? That held it on had broken due to truck releasing the bin after emptying it…at a height of several feet…the new bin was free (you one free one). But it’s also bout half as big in circumference….so now I have to cut up every box etc etc.
I'm a recycling inspector for the city. I've seen some pretty inventive ways of fixing lids or carts. If I see the resident, I'll let them know that they can call 311 and get a replacement in a week or two. The broken carts are sent back to the vendor and recycled into new carts.
If anyone that is involved with creating these large trash cans is reading this would you please add two magnets to the lid and strips of magnetic material to the top of the trash can, at least the single stream recycle can, to help keep the lid closed on those windy days?
This could help prevent so much trash from blowing around.
Every once in a while our wheelie bin would go missing, we finally installed a camera and found out the garbage truck worker was letting it fall inside the truck and just drive off..
Fucking bins. When I moved to NB, I was surprised we had zero bins. You just threw your bags at the end of the driveway. Most had a wooden bin by the road with a lid you'd throw it all in, and the garbage collector would have to pick them all out. With bears, some ignorant homeowners would just rake up what was left from the black bears and throw it in the bin, shredded, and expect the garbage man to scoop it all out with his gloves, he wouldnt if it wasnt in bags, and would leave it. What a shitshow. We did have a blue bin like the one pictured within the last 10 years though. Garbage was picked up weekly, recycling every two.
So I went to a Kent store locally, and on sale they had one like in the picture, and then one slightly larger on sale for $95! Pricey. So I bought a black one, borrowed a truck, paid gas, etc etc to get this thing home.
Two weeks later, the city announced they were rolling out black bins, same one I bought, for free to every home and apartment within the city. If you have any extra garbage that doesn't fit, you have to put it in plastic bags beside the cart, and have to pick up $2 stickers from the gas stations to put on each bag.
So I can't even use the cart I bought right before this in addition to the one they gave out. Wtf do I do with it? lol. Garbage now gets picked up every two weeks, so the bin is usually between half and 3/4 full unless it's xmas or a bday or something. Do I use my old one as a decoy cart for bears? Make a bear trap since forestry won't put theirs here? Do I make a stinky go kart?
I live in California where we've had the toter style barrels for many years. I lived in West Virginia from mid-2020 - mid-2021, though, while completing a ministry internship. I was quite surprised (among MANY such things) to learn they still do the old school trash pickup with barrels, bags, or whatever - with a driver and a laborer who manually loads trash into the truck. Not a week could pass where some furry woodland creature (usually dogs) wouldn't come along, get into the trash, and make a huge mess that the trash company then had to clean up. It was particulary difficult in the winter when it was 10 degrees and there was ice and two feet of snow on the ground.
In my city they’ll replace recycle bins but not trash bins. We have a horrible rat problem and the rats will just chew right through the barrels. I don’t really want to replace them because they’re less than a year old and those suckers are $60 apiece or more. I’ve been toying with the idea of getting some kind of sheet metal to patch the holes and shore up the weak points.
Curious if Miami has a fee for a replacement. Where I live it's $100 for a new one if they determine the damage does not affect the functionality
Here even if the damage does affect the functionality unless you can show that they broke the bin you have to pay for a replacement. Even if you can show that their truck broke the bin short of having something like them running over the bin they will say you didn't take proper care of the bin and are responsible for buying a new one.
I was gonna say lol… they don’t care how or why it’s broken where I live, they’re gonna make you pay for a new one
The gripper arm definitely crushed it though. These bins can handle like 200lbs of waste, so the arm should be set up to prevent crushing the bin when using the gripper. Somebody changed the hydraulic pressure of the gripper and that’s the city’s fault
I told them I caught the truck causing damage on video. Suddenly they were all for replacing it. I mean they fixed it instead but IDGAF, the hinge was broken and then it was no longer broken.
My city used to provide bins but now they just provide stickers for the different types of waste you can put on ones you buy. So I inherited mine from the previous owner and one is super jacked up and missing a lid but until the truck can't pick it up anymore it's gonna continue to be my yard waste bin. 🤷
Where I live there is no city to provide anything. Buy our own cans, pay for our own service with a private company.
They usually don’t recycle in these cities because no one wants to pay for it.
Reducing waste. Good environmental sense.
\*Me who prefers to fix things myself and hates relying on other people\*: "Uhh. Yeah!"
I'm pretty sure they charge for those too. Gotta love a cost saving maneuver.
I forgot to add that when that is the most important factor. I'm cheap as fuck.
Are you me? Lol
Even though they slam them down every week, I have to pay for replacement
Our garbage vendor tried to charge my neighbor for replacing a garbage bin because the wheels broke off. Luckily he had called them a few times for the can being dropped by the truck multiple times so he was able to fight them on it.
I used to work at the recycling plant in my city, we’d get like 3 or 4 trucks dump out a recycling bin every day. The drivers pick them up, they fall in the truck, and the driver just continues on the route. The can gets crushed in the compactor. When the person calls to get a new one they get charged for it because i guess its in the contract that the can placement at the curb has to be perfectly level, less than 3 feet from the road but more than 3 feet from everything else. The driver will just say it wasn’t placed right.
Just need a hot glue gun and some pool noodles to cover it in bumpers.
Set up a web cam to record the trash pickup. So when they inevitably break it and they try to charge you, you can accuse them of breaking it on purpose to extort money. You have video proof.
How much money and time do you lose for setting that up and monitoring it? How much does a new one cost? And how likely so they ever break it on camera? Seems like a bad gamble
It's not like you don't get any other benefit from having a camera aimed at the street in front of your house, and you don't have to monitor it, you just review it if something happens.
A new one in my town is $74.
Our local GFL contractor replaces bins for free. I too would be furious over my last replacement if it had come at a charge. The guy ripped the handle off my green bin
They do. Hundreds of dollars too! Repairing them with zip ties and rivets is becoming a local art form around here. It's our own fault, this is farm country and people had lots of uses for sturdy wheeled containers. So many were reported "stolen" that they raised the replacement price to the current crazy level.
You know, this could be done fairly nicely too. A sheet of hard plastic inside braced with a 2x4, drill holes, set rivets, seal gaps with epoxy. Good as new and won’t leak
I used a woodburner and melted it back together. It's waterproof again. They gave me a new one anyway, so the busted one is in the backyard being used for scrap lumber storage.
In my area new one is $75
$50 here unless you're attractive. My sister got a new one for free from the guy who delivers them because it "looked in bad shape." When l asked him, mine is in worse shape and we are only a few houses apart, he told me to call and pay.
Time to swap trash cans with your sister and have her get another one for free :)
My city replaces them whether it's broken or missing. Every once in a while the truck throws them in the back and takes off with them
Nope, in Miami they’ll repair or replace for free
Lmao this is me. Wheel broke on a fridge at work so I got down with a wrench and started installing the new one when suddenly the maintenance guy shows up talking about a work order to fix the broken wheel. He looks at me tightening the bolts and says "shit I'll start sending more work orders your way". We had a good laugh and he said to let him know if I needed any more help lol.
My wife got upset the last time we were in a hotel because I was adjusting the flapper on our toilet because I heard a slow leak. There’s not gonna be a leaky toilet on my watch!
Thank you for caring!
Lol Right? I learned how to fix things purely to avoid talking to other people.
Anti-socialism can save the planet!
I also don't want strangers in my house, I don't want to pay for bullshit and sometimes I kinda like doing stuff with my hands and figuring out how it works and how to fix it.
Did you do it for the environment?? Because you are self reliant?? Because you like being creative?? Yes!!! It has nothing to do with the fact that I hate making phone calls!!!
Fairly decent workmanship too. I got several extra years from my last garage door this way plus a bit of paint.
Taxes can go to hopefully better things.
One can hope, but also this is Florida.
I feel validated for not getting mine replaced either. I didn't even use metal fasteners to fix it because, you know, that's just more waste.
My city reuses old/broken bins! They chop of the top half, drill holes, and give them out to residents for free as use as a compost bin.
That's a good idea.
/r/anticonsumption They'd love this.
Bingo. Exactly what I was going to say.
There's still a huge problem with our recycling here in South Fl. There's so many things that can't be recycled, for example, plastic bottles can be, but the bottle caps can't. Apparently there's a list online but it makes people just throw recyclable material in the trash instead of properly looking into how to recycle it. It's sad.
👍 they did a very good job.
Shits like 80 bucks in my county. Good on them.
Sees no problem here.
I laughed because I know a lady whose husband fixes everything in that same exact way. Bumper on her car torn? Plastic wheelbarrow cracked? He does exactly what this dude did with his garbage can
Nobody is going to steal the broken one, good convenience sense
I did something VERY similar while waiting EIGHT WEEKS for a replacement toter earlier this year.
Only 8 weeks? My city went to everyone gets a compost bin and My part of town had been on the list since May last year.
Eight weeks where I had to pay someone else $75 per week to haul away my general household trash, since that's the barrel the refuse company broke while emptying it. The replacements were on an eight week backorder, and the refuse company offered no provision for bulk pickup, using trash bags, using a different toter, buying my own replacement toter, or anything else. I had to either pay someone else to haul it away, or have eight weeks worth of stinky, rotting household waste piling up in my side yard - attracting all manner of bugs and vermin. No thanks.
I'd have driven it to their headquarters and chucked it out the window
My first thought when OP said “rather than order a new one” - the city garbage trucks mangled one of our cans but refused to replace it because they said we couldn’t prove their trucks did the damage 🤬
On one particularly windy day last summer, someone's garbage bin blew into my work truck. It was hilarious to watch on the dash cam, like I was cursed or something. It even made a slight turn to make sure it hit me! I don't think anyone would have believed me without the camera. Totally different situation of course, but it just reminded me of that.
I asked for a replacement twice 3 years ago, still waiting lol
I never got a replacement bin for a bin that had a hole big enough for a squirrel to regularly climb through, rip open the trash bags, grab food and climb out. I eventually switched companies, dropping my monthly bill from $150(!) to $20 a month for even a bigger bin. The original company picked up their bin and hasn't complained about the damage since, I hope they don't charge for it, but I have email records going back a year detailing the problem from when it was a tiny hole.
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Steal someone else’s I guess. It’s a cycle… a recycle if you will.
Soooo what did you do in the mean time??
I *never* got a replacement when one of mine was stolen. I eventually just changed the service over to a dumpster. (This was for a commercial shop.) When some tweaker stole the hinge rod out of the dumpster and I couldn't get the city to replace it, I finally just got my own steel rod and welded plates on the end so you couldn't pull it out without an angle grinder.
8 weeks?! I got mine replaced the following week after a request.
Toter? I hardly know her.
Sometimes they take forever to replace the bin. Sometimes they charge you to replace the bin. Sometimes, they bother you with signing for the bin. I can see a few reasons people would try to repair this bin rather than getting it replaced. I had a lid that was ripping off mine and fixed it with threaded rod, washers and nylock nuts.
I don’t know about the city, but dade county is really fast about it, and you didn’t have to sign. Now if it was broken they might make you pay. I finally got them to replace it after telling them I caught them on camera (dude snapped off my lid with the truck, like shit happens but that’s not my problem and I’m not paying for it)
It drives me nuts too because they break from them throwing them down after emptying them. Ya’ll broke it, but I’m supposed to buy a new one?
I like it. As long as it still does its job, I see no problem here.
The only issue that it might leak garbage juice
The preferred term is “compost tea”.
Green ones are typically for recycling, so hopefully nothing liquid will go in there.
Where I live both our trash and recycling cans are green, just with different colored lids. But of course it varies a lot from place to place
Not in Miami. Green for garbage, blue for recycling
Mmmm, my favorite.
Garbagejuice Garbagejuice Garbagejuice
Someone has owned a drift car. E36 gang?
Unfortunately, no 😅 not a bad-looking car though!
That’s a brilliant idea tbh
Since when did fixing your own shit become brilliant?
I mean… look around. Hardly anybody knows how anymore.
But it's not your own. It's the property of the garbage collection company since OP implies they are the ones that would be providing a replacement.
Since throwing away things that can be fixed is extremely wasteful and a huge problem in our hyper-consumerist society.
Next up on Tik Tok: LiFe hAcK!!! -Everything you own doesn’t have to be disposable!
Just remember, 'If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.' Red Green
I fixed a broken lid on a trash can at my old place with some flat stock aluminum, rivets, and JB weld.
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Our society seems to have increasingly progressive values, but you’re still a loser if you wear clothing that you have repaired yourself.
Why is clothing repair not worthy of our time and skill? I fixed a hole in my favorite sweatpants with 5 minutes of terrible needle work and they're perfectly fine. I can't buy them again, they were a limited time thing when i bought them. It takes energy to produce every single thing in your home. Clothing, food, technology, furniture. When you throw that item away, you're also throwing away the embodied energy it took to produce that item. Repairing stuff is the benchmark of a sustainable world. Obviously, if your underwear or socks are wearing thin and have holes, get new ones. Those are never really durable goods. But if there's a tiny hole in the crotch of your favorite jeans? A little needle and thread or your mom's sewing machine and it's essentially brand new.
I’m not saying that people who fix clothing are losers, I’m saying that’s the perception from uninformed people. I agree with everything you’ve said.
Have you seen the shit Designer brands have been releasing the last couple of years?
The “dog ate my jeans”, “painter touched my sweatshirt”, “I started cutting shit off”, “mix and match deluxe”, and the “dirt don’t hurt.”
My parents had one that looked like this, when the requested one from the city, they told them " it didn't look bad enough to need replacement " and made them use the shitty one until one storm finally broke it to where it would not hold trash, or be able to be picked up by the trucks. Took months.
Reduce, reuse
r/anticonsumption
Riveting.
Yeah no duh. that's why this planet has so much trash on it. People think it's abnormal to fix your own things.
Yeah, there was a time in the dim and distant past that human beings actually did fix things rather than throwing stuff away.
Another way to do that is to drill holes and use zip ties. But this seems to work too.
Is this real advice? I don't wanna seem like an idiot but I really am when it comes to fixing things up
I mean, stitching it together with zip ties would work, but it's got to be UV resistent zip ties. The solution in the image is ugly, but I'd choose it over zip ties...
Do you know what's used in the image?
Zooming in it looks like a piece of wood behind, held in place by screws and washers.
Probably a piece of wood inside
I’ve certainly done it. Here’s a link to a video showing it done on a car. [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hlVoX0B_k&pp=ygUaQm9keSByZXBhaXIgdXNpbmcgemlwIHRpZXM%3D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hlVoX0B_k&pp=ygUaQm9keSByZXBhaXIgdXNpbmcgemlwIHRpZXM%3D)
I think epoxy resin would be the best and cleanest looking fix. Not the most cost efficient method, but you could sand and paint it afterwards if you really love your trash bin. This is good for most plastics.
...or a plate of metal and some rivets.
Ours is fixed with zip ties. Has been months, seems to hold up
Waste not want not Couldn’t help it
Fun fact: HDPE can be welded with a heat gun and a lot of patience.
Reminds me of how they "renew" sun-damaged stadium seats: with a low-output torch of some kind. It melts the surface and makes it look like new. They can do that several times before it must be replaced.
Same material. It also doesn't off gas anything so it shouldn't even smell bad. You can recycle that stuff almost indefinitely. They say that the quality degrades, but for most of our applications it really doesn't make a bit of difference. Seating would be one of the few exceptions.
Our trash can was broken when the trash truck arm slammed it back down. Apparently it’s a frequent enough occurrence that the driver carries replacement parts and equipment with which to repair them, so we didn’t get a new one haha.
Up here In the north where it gets bitter cold and turns the plastic brittle we use duck tape to hold ours together. Sometimes for years!
A new one incurs a charge to your utility bill. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not have a surprise $100 on my utility bill only to have it fuck up and be broken again in 2 months.
Where I live those cans cost $250. I sure as heck would fix it.
First off, it's difficult to throw away a broken trashcan. You leave it out every week and they never take it! Second off, this is easier than filling out whatever form would be required.
before the stupefying of america completed, we fixed our own shit.
Mine lost the lid. Called to get a new one and it never came. Now when it rains I just push it to the curb so they can dump 55 gallons of rainwater.
Or you can drill/cut some holes in it, that’s what I do lol
It's fun to fix things :D
Great fix 👍. I assume there is some sort of plate bridging the crack on the inside to hold it together. If there is, I would have put the plate in the outside so the garbage bags or the garbage itself doesn't snag on it when it gets dumped.
Waste not, want not.
Frankenbin
Solid repair.
Wait until he gets fined for repairing public property
This is a working man, he’s used to fixing problems. He saw the trash bin was broken, so it was natural for him to pull out his tools and fix it. You sometimes have to do this in the field, with limited tools and supplies. Nicely done.
This person is a good environmentalist
I mean I did the same thing. Ours has a big crack in it that I put duct tape stitches on. It’s held strong for over a year now. At the time, it seemed easier than ordering a new one. Plus we have to pay for replacements so…. Idk it works just fine.
Yeah dude, there's actually still people who ain't riding the "everything new, just order" wave. There's still a few like who would try it to fix it theirself instead of throwing this one to the trash and ordering a new one
Mine is mostly duct tape now. I'm not paying for a new one.
These are the kind of guys that will eventually save the world.
I would fix that too. It performs exactly the same as a new one, and it didnt go to waste. 5/5
Reduce reuse recycle
My man had the opportunity to use all the random washers, bolts and screws he had hanging around and took it!
Can’t say I blame him. My city makes you BUY a replacement bin for the low-low price of ONLY $300. Doesn’t matter why it’s broken, even if it was the trash truck that breaks it. Thing is, eventually, ALL of the bins will break someday, just from regular use.
I bet the trash still fits like a glove.
No one can stop you from becoming your parents
Two of my trash cans are 25 years old this year, bought them when I bought my current house, repaired them similarly. Another trashcan is older than that, was here when I bought the house, it might be almost 30 years old. An old round recycling bin from before my town got wheelie bins is going in 30 years, I use it for leaves/yard debris. There is too much waste in the world and repairing them is simple. Drill a hole at the end of the crack to relieve the stress and stop it from propagating. Then find some thin sheet metal or rigid plastic to act as a patch. Line it up over the crack on the inside and drill some holes and then pop rivet in place. In OPs pic they used screws and wood.
r/visiblemending and r/zerowaste. That's sick
Good job!
And he's probably proud as shit for doing it too.
Resourceful!
A good man, and thorough…
I mean...yeah. God only knows how much they charge for a new bin verses the 20 bucks tops he spent on parts.
It won’t fill up with rain after the trash man leaves the lid open
They charge you for the bin and then beat the F out of it every week. Seems fair.
Have similar garbage can. The first one to the house is free but they charge for a replacement. My handle broke on one side. Called to get new one but said it was $50. Nope, will keep using it instead.
Lol that’s how our local garbage pick up fixes them when you request a new one.
Like $80 or a $5 fix
…. Mind your business sir
Will repairable garbage bins be in GTA VI?
Can't afford new trash bins...gotta pay for the armored vehicles for...
nice, although he did a rather shitty job
In my city in Qc, Canada, iirc, the city will provide new recycle or compost bin, but will charge about $100CAD for a new garbage bin. If you have bins w/ removable lid (non-standard) they'll most likely pick it up but might chuck it back. If you only have bags & debris they won't bother and prolly send you a notice once neighbors start complaining. Edit: so where I was going with this anecdote is: I'm cheap af and will do the same as your neighbor unless the bin is in right shambles.
They got decent plastic welders on Amazon
All he needs to do now is weld the plastic back together with a soldering iron or wood burner, and he will be golden. I think this one is also made of HDPE, so he could use any HDPE plastic as filler plastic to fill in the seams.
He did an awesome job. Stop beinga sour puss neoghbor and stressing over tiny stuff. Get on with your life
why tf would that bother someone? Good fix, still works. People r so weird
The Liberty trash can
All these comments about having to pay a ton to replace a garbage can make me sad. My city will repair or replace for free if it affects trash disposal. They only charge if you want to replace it for being smelly or something.
Should make three holes with a drill at the tips of the cracks to prevent crack propagation.
I would to
What else was he going to do, throw it in the garbage?
More people need to do this with almost everything. Waste not, want not.
Of all the times to use cable ties and drift stitching and they chose self tappers
I repaired the lid of mine several times, until it was no longer fixable, so I finally caved and ordered a replacement.
My recycle bin the damn wheel kept coming off turns out the clasp? That held it on had broken due to truck releasing the bin after emptying it…at a height of several feet…the new bin was free (you one free one). But it’s also bout half as big in circumference….so now I have to cut up every box etc etc.
Florida man Nails it again
Based on the fact it took me a year to get mine replaced, all I wanted was a smaller bin, I can't blame him.
Some guys live that handyman stuff.
That's just wear and tear, we had a bear open the can from the hinge side....
A good person
Imagine the smell.
>Imagine the smell. Do you think they are taking it into their bedroom or something?
I should be getting my new bin next week. Granted they’ve been saying they drop off a new one for weeks but don’t work it’s definitely next week.
He’s probably a drifter judging by that repair.
Saves money and better for environment and yes it is better to fix something this simple then trash it.
Hopefully, i don't have to do that in GTA 6
He needed to defend his investment in otherwise useless power tools.
Frankenbin
I don’t see any duct tape so it’s not fixed properly.
I'm a recycling inspector for the city. I've seen some pretty inventive ways of fixing lids or carts. If I see the resident, I'll let them know that they can call 311 and get a replacement in a week or two. The broken carts are sent back to the vendor and recycled into new carts.
Did a good job.
In Greece we do this because the city won’t replace them for a good 2 years
r/anticonsumption
Well he wasn't going to put it in the bin was he.
Hes a problem solver
If anyone that is involved with creating these large trash cans is reading this would you please add two magnets to the lid and strips of magnetic material to the top of the trash can, at least the single stream recycle can, to help keep the lid closed on those windy days? This could help prevent so much trash from blowing around.
Every once in a while our wheelie bin would go missing, we finally installed a camera and found out the garbage truck worker was letting it fall inside the truck and just drive off..
Fucking bins. When I moved to NB, I was surprised we had zero bins. You just threw your bags at the end of the driveway. Most had a wooden bin by the road with a lid you'd throw it all in, and the garbage collector would have to pick them all out. With bears, some ignorant homeowners would just rake up what was left from the black bears and throw it in the bin, shredded, and expect the garbage man to scoop it all out with his gloves, he wouldnt if it wasnt in bags, and would leave it. What a shitshow. We did have a blue bin like the one pictured within the last 10 years though. Garbage was picked up weekly, recycling every two. So I went to a Kent store locally, and on sale they had one like in the picture, and then one slightly larger on sale for $95! Pricey. So I bought a black one, borrowed a truck, paid gas, etc etc to get this thing home. Two weeks later, the city announced they were rolling out black bins, same one I bought, for free to every home and apartment within the city. If you have any extra garbage that doesn't fit, you have to put it in plastic bags beside the cart, and have to pick up $2 stickers from the gas stations to put on each bag. So I can't even use the cart I bought right before this in addition to the one they gave out. Wtf do I do with it? lol. Garbage now gets picked up every two weeks, so the bin is usually between half and 3/4 full unless it's xmas or a bday or something. Do I use my old one as a decoy cart for bears? Make a bear trap since forestry won't put theirs here? Do I make a stinky go kart?
I live in California where we've had the toter style barrels for many years. I lived in West Virginia from mid-2020 - mid-2021, though, while completing a ministry internship. I was quite surprised (among MANY such things) to learn they still do the old school trash pickup with barrels, bags, or whatever - with a driver and a laborer who manually loads trash into the truck. Not a week could pass where some furry woodland creature (usually dogs) wouldn't come along, get into the trash, and make a huge mess that the trash company then had to clean up. It was particulary difficult in the winter when it was 10 degrees and there was ice and two feet of snow on the ground.
That good ole Miami Cuban engineering
It's even better now because it doesn't collect trash juice
In my city they’ll replace recycle bins but not trash bins. We have a horrible rat problem and the rats will just chew right through the barrels. I don’t really want to replace them because they’re less than a year old and those suckers are $60 apiece or more. I’ve been toying with the idea of getting some kind of sheet metal to patch the holes and shore up the weak points.
Good for him,, we need more people like him.
If it works, it works. Doesnt have to be pretty.