Wheely bin problems.

[bonnie]

:mad:We have had the local council reps around this morning knocking on doors asking everyone if the could make sure our wheely bins are taken off the public foot path by lunch time on the day they are emptied.

sound fine, but we dont usually get our bins emptied till late afternoon.
On top of this once the binmen have emptied them they leave them two or three doors down the road. What about people who work all day?

i asked all these questions and was told well the binmen have a very hard job and we are just asking for a little help from the public. CHEEK:mad:

[franbee]

Should have put this in pet hates. These rules make me so cross. They say our bins have to be out by 7.0am, and sometimes the lorry comes just after 8, but if you put the bin out the night before you can be told off too. The recycling folk come with 2 separate lorries, and they might come as late as 4.0pm, so the bins are out all day, also in the way.

[bonnie]

Franbee many years ago one of my older brothers left school and worked as a dustman for a while. back then you had to go round to the back garden, collect how ever many metal bins there were plus bin liners plus carboard and any other rubbish and physically lift them into the back of the lorry. then you had to return the empty bins to wherever they came from.yet he still managed to be home for lunch time.
Now bins are plastic, on wheels, aleaver lifts them on to the lorry, yet they still think they have a hard job and dump the empty bins wherever.

[souter girl]

"Where you bin?"
"Ah bin to Hong Kong"
"No - where you wheelie bin?"
"Ah really bin to Hong Kong"

Silly I know

[dragonfly]

I have been wondering what is so hard about putting wheelie bins on to a lift at the back of the lorry. My elderly neighbour wheels it 30 foot up the drive. I think it is a cushy job.

Bonnie I think bin men had it hard before wheelie bins when they had to lift heavy, smelly bins from the back of peoples houses now it is a doddle.

[bonnie]

good one souter. we had to retrieve our bin four doors down today dragonfly.

[Rustic Pumpkin]

We don't have wheelies, we have bits of carpet and old tarps etc! Anything that you care to put to stop the birds, cats and dogs.

[souter girl]

Our rubbish has to go out in black plastic sacks and you have to get them out the night before in case the men arrive at crack of dawn. Walking the dog first thing in the morning I am horrified at the ripped sacks where hedgehogs/cats/dogs/maybe rats(!) have had a go at what's inside and then there's food scraps etc. all over the pavement. Today I had to prise dog's jaws apart as she had picked up somebody's left over Sunday roast bone and while she thought it might be delicious, I didn't want the consequences of her eating unknown food.

[Rustic Pumpkin]

Our rubbish has to go out in black plastic sacks and you have to get them out the night before in case the men arrive at crack of dawn. Walking the dog first thing in the morning I am horrified at the ripped sacks where hedgehogs/cats/dogs/maybe rats(!) have had a go at what's inside and then there's food scraps etc. all over the pavement. Today I had to prise dog's jaws apart as she had picked up somebody's left over Sunday roast bone and while she thought it might be delicious, I didn't want the consequences of her eating unknown food.

This is how our rubbish is expected to go out, hence the carpet and tarps mentioned in my last post. However, many people don't cover their bags and so they get torn apart as do yours, souter girl. Unfortunately, our next door neighbours are a care in the community house and they also fail to adequately secure their bags. The slightest breeze opens them up and whips the contents everywhere, mainly up our drive. We are constantly having to clean up after them, and some of the things they put in the bags are far less sanitary than cooking scraps! We have told and told them about this, and two weeks ago I more or less demanded that they send someone to clean it up but no one came and by the next morning it was all over the road, our drive, another next door garden. It is awful.

[bonnie]

Souter and rp i was under the impression everwhere used wheelie bins. we have a blck one for general household rubbish, a small blue bin for food indoors, this then gets tipped into a larger blue bin outside, a green bin for cardboard, paper and recycling items, then theres a brown bin for gardening rubbish and finaly a medium size bin for glass and bottles.
Waiting to see what they come up with next.

[Rustic Pumpkin]

Souter and rp i was under the impression everwhere used wheelie bins. we have a blck one for general household rubbish, a small blue bin for food indoors, this then gets tipped into a larger blue bin outside, a green bin for cardboard, paper and recycling items, then theres a brown bin for gardening rubbish and finaly a medium size bin for glass and bottles.
Waiting to see what they come up with next.

No, Bonnie, but oh how I wish we did! But what a palava you have!

We have black plastic for general rubbish

You may purchase, at a cost of £5.50 for 10, green plastic bags for garden waste which goes to landfill

Orange recycling, for which the rules are so many and complicated it is a wonder anyone can get it right! Only plastic bottles, no other plastic, no glass, but you can put your 'office' paper, and general household card, paper and magazines, and cans.:confused: