[Closed] refuse collection moan again

Our bin men are pretty good but on Wednesday they left.....a full 5ltr tin of paint.

Mind you it was a sh!tty colour.

It takes me 4 weeks to fill my wheelie bin...

I dump half of my rubbish in the works skip damn if I want a smelly wheelie bin all the time.

Though that is bad elaine. Ring up and complain tell them if they don't collect it your going to dump it on the council office steps after all you pay you council tax (assuming you do 😉 )

yes i do pay council tax... but its not the local council anymore is it its- those foreigners that take it away... i still dont know how many bags your aloud to leave outside ? havent had a leaflet about it ? and i recycle cardbord and plastic bottles ( they never tell me ive too many beer bottles tho .... 😆

Take it to your local refuse tip. Still complain to the council as those foreigners will be doing it under contract for the the council.

Don't stress on it. Fat Eric (Pickles) wants councils to start weekly collections again. You'll be able to throw as much crap as you like away again soon without needing to worry about that recycling nonsense

Submit a fredom of information request asking why you cant have a bulk bin, and the rules regarding such,and also the number of bin bags you are allowed to have removed,per collection, also a copy of the coucils rules for waste collection.

It does sound like you left too much rubbish so they have a point.

We have recycling bins and refuse bins. Everything from the refuse bin goes into landfill so I try to keep that to a bare minimum. How are you managing to leave > 3 bags out ? Or do they only collect once per month ?

Did you leave too much rubbish?

How often do they collect and how many in your family?

Bizarre that Eric Pickles wants to reintroduce weekly bin collections when every other type of public expenditure is being cut.

>bags your aloud to leave outside ?

Teaching assistant in a school ? Ooooooh, <waves hands around head in an alarming manner>

they collect fortnightly...and i have 3 people in my house and 2 greyhounds...5 snakes which take alot of cleaning out... and i think thats about it apart from a dead parrot in the freezer (lol)

Norwegian Blue?

Can the snake waste be composted? What waste are the dogs producing apart from the obvious? Still sounds a lot to go to landfill.

imo I still think it's worth complaining to the council. We seem to be a nation of whiners but when it comes to actually complaining were useless.

I've learn't that complaining might not make you popular but it does get things sorted.

i leave 8 bags approx so thats only 4 per week and with the cleaning of the snakes etc i dont think thats too bad ???? i shall take the excess of 3 bags to the local tip and complain to them and ask how many bags we are aloud.... they prob will say give them a ring (but alas i dont have a phone number for the ruddy foreigners..lol its discusting really that they wont take an extra 3 bags ? well lets encourage the rats then.. ive heard they are on the increase with the amount of rubbish that lies around the streets for days....

>Still sounds a lot to go to landfill.

+1

4 bags a week does sound a bit excessive though.

How much do you get collected on recycling?

Do the snakes + dog all produce unrecyclable/uncompostable material ?

Do they sh*t uranium or something ?

methane actually... 😆 lol its just that my hubby uses layers of newspapers in the bottom of the tanks rather than pretty looking ground cover.... using newspapers is easier to clean up.... they never venture to the ground as our snakes coil on the branches.... so when they go to the loo i guess it drops evrywhere...lol so yep we have alot of rolled up newspapers so hence alot of black binliners for 5 big snakes...

Philby - Member

Bizarre that Eric Pickles wants to reintroduce weekly bin collections when every other type of public expenditure is being cut.

Not really - fortnightly bin collections is hated by middle england and the daily wail as is publiuc expenditure. So he can tell teh councils to collect weekly but not give them any mor money - then blame labour councils for the lack of weekly bin collection.

perfect tory policy

I think some of you guys must earn far too much to be able to throw so much rubbish out. With 2 of us we do just about half a bin bag a fortnight.

You could've just gone on your local (county?) council's website & checked what the rules are, etc. - ours freely gives out all this info so people know what's what...

well you dont have 5 snakes to clean up after ! 😉

Our bin men are pretty good but on Wednesday they left.....a full 5ltr tin of paint.

maybe they left the paint for her to repaint the binliners or something ...(wrong colour) ? 😉

Yup certainly a case of producing too much rubbish, all councils have limits. The information is available very easily, think your going to have to lump and accept because of your hobbies your going to have move the waste yourselves.

aP - completely agree...here we pay for the bags to be collected, so end up recyling almost everything and one bag lasts almost 2 months..

Elaine Anne - 'Aloud' is not the same word as 'allowed'..

and apart from that, to leave 8 bags a fortnight, wtf?! are you crazy? 5 snakes & 2 dogs is maybe too much for you to cope with then..

newspaper and animal poo makes perfectly good compost.

8 bags for landfill a fortnight is nuts!

Family of three here leave half a black bin bag for landfill, and 2 bags for recycling a week. We compost kitchen/food scraps.

Submit a fredom of information request asking why you cant have a bulk bin, and the rules regarding such,and also the number of bin bags you are allowed to have removed,per collection, also a copy of the coucils rules for waste collection.

Er, why not phone the Council and ask? They do have staff who's job includes assisting the public you know.

i cant have a bin cos theres a small slope at the back of my house, to have wheelie bins you have to live on a flat street... they came to access our terrace houses and theres only the five of us on my street that cant have a bin because of the slope.....ruddy hell its not mount everest ! i dont have a back garden so its not like i can dump the dog or snake waste on the compost heap... so black bin liners it is..hubby took the 3 extra bags to the tip and complained about the sticker situation...he didnt get much response , anyway he dumped the blown up telly at the tip and just as one of the tip guys had his beady eye on the tv my hubby smashed the screen up abit ! lol....oh dear... tho the people who work at the tip are real ganets on the look out for electrical products that they could possibly sell on agin....
can you recycle yoghurt pots btw and shampoo bottles ?... i tried putting those in the [plastic bottles container bag a few weeks ago and they took them out and threw them back on my pathway at the front door....

Depends where you are. Collection of waste is either a District council function or if you're in a unitary area then it's just your only council. As someone said, give them a call and ask them to advise you on what they will recycle and what they won't and general advice on waste and waste minimisation

Fat Eric acting for entirely selfish reasons - doesn't want pizza boxes and empty bargain buckets kicking around.

I fill my wheelie bin every fortnight and my recyling bins! Half a bin bag? WTF do you feed on, nuts and seeds? Where's the empty curry trays, plastic bottles etc! I hate uber green people, go live a little, make some waste. Do you also shit in an envelope then use it to fertilise something in margo's garden??

Ctax: The way I see it. I pay for it. you do it. take it away.

I'm not allowed the no pay for it option, therefore you take it away!

i say let go the french way and have small little cupboards at the end of each road and everyone just puts rubbish there and bin men pick it up from there. quicker and easier for all. I loved france once i got used to it

Such a middle class dilema. Try harder at a middleclass solution. buy food from local markets with less wrapping and recycle more.

well lets encourage the rats then..

That's where the snakes come in handy

Where's the empty curry trays, plastic bottles etc!

they get receylcyed.

[u]ALL[/u] our plastics except cellophane gets recycled. As do foils, cans, tins, cartons, plastic bottles, yoghurt pots, tubs, boxes and papers. The only thing I have to do is take the wine and beer bottles to the BBank every other week.

The only stuff that goes in the black bags is cellophane/thin plastic bags, meat and fish scraps and heavy fruit peels (Orange, melon, avocado nuts) etc as they dont compost very well.

We're uber-middle-class round these parts.

and I bet you don't have any snakes 🙂

Fortnightly Wheelie bin Collection here (with closed lid policy and no extra bags allowed)

Recycling gets collected once/ week and we have brown bins for food waste that gets collected weekly.

3 cats, 2 dogs, 1 toddler still in nappies and 2 adults and we manage ok (but could do better)

Carboard gets taken to the Supermarket every time we go shopping. This is where it could be made easier; it is easy to understand that families without cars may not bother. In fact we had a problem in some area of the city where residents were not recycling and the rubbish was building up and up (ie not being taken away because of the rules) There was a rat problem etc and it got in the paper

ANYONE WANT TO BUY THE SNAKES THEN ? thats cut my recycling down by half at least....there problem solved....snakes with big teeth ! vicious ! poisonous.... slow death.....byeeeeee.. 😆

ANYONE WANT TO BUY THE SNAKES THEN ?

why not recycle them?

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you tight B...... ! the're worth more than a handbag....thats cruel.... you can feed it next time then ...cant guarantee you,ll have a hand left tho !

we could do with a bigger recycling bin tbh ....going to the tip grinds my gears cause its a pain in the arse from where whence i live ... although its about to get alot worse so i should shut up 😀 - 1 mile trek to stick out the bin and no recycling bin ... the joys of country living !

lucky if i put out the big bin once a month though. Just have to load the van up and take it to the recycling when we go shopping i guess