New UK bin rules.Is anybody else having problems?
Question:Somebody near were i live, got fined for putting a potato in the wrong bin!
An elderly friend of mine (aged 76) , who is partially sighted accidently put leaves from her garden in the wrong bin and when she realised later, not wanting to get fined, she had to tip the green bin on its side, virtually climb into it to retrieve the leaves, all of this for fear of being fined! Does anybody else think the council are getting a bit rediculous, fines for such small mistakes?
Answers:
Take all your addressed letters out of your rubbish and then dump the rest down the lanes.
I wouldn't do it but it makes you feel like doing it doesn't it!
I have a grey bin for normal household waste, a green bin for garden waste, a black crate for plastics (minus lids and washed please) a sack for paper and card, (no newspaper). A sack for newspaper, (no card or paper), a green crate for tins (washed and lids removed and sharp edges crushed please), a kitchen sidetop bin for food waste and a small blue bin for hazardous material (batteries, nuclear waste, spare uranium rods etc). All supplied by the council and paid for out of our council tax and GOD FORBID if you put the wrong bin or crate or bag or sack out on the wrong day and the lid is open by even an inch (cause for the bin NOT to be emptied around here)
I have had an inch of maggots in the bottom of my bin because they are emptied only fortnightly in the height of Summer. It was reported in our local paper that someone had been round to the local council offices and had tipped a few pints of maggots through the letterbox. The guy should get a medal - at least he is highlighting what WE have to put up with.
Do you remember the good old days when everything went into one bin and the council sorted it all at recycling facilities? Now WE do it and get charged for the pleasure.
The bin men used to come round the back of the house, open the gate, take the bin round the front of the house, empty it, bring the bin back and close the gate...then they had a tip at Christmas.
Well here is my tip for binmen - Feck Off and tell your bosses the same.
i answered this once
i only have one bin i opted out of the recycling one when it was launched as i knew this would happen
yes yes and yes..it will only get worse believe me... fly tiping will become the norm.. you wait
It's not as bad a taxing horse manure!
I thought that the new system was working well apart from having to put(or not put ) the brown, garden waste bin out every 3rd week. You can tell when its this collection : there are no bins out!
More alarmed to hear of a neighbour, went to put something in her green bin only to discover a snarling rat looking up at her!
The problem is bins.Councils were pressurised by bin makers to change to wheelie bins in place of old dustbins or sacks.This worked reasonably well when all refuse went together to landfill.With the increase in recycling which will only work with doorstep collections,wheelie bins were not ideal as the waste has to be segregated and collected separately so extra bins have to be supplied at great cost.If wrong items are placed in the recycle bin the whole load can be polluted so they have penalise people to try to ensure the waste is properly serparated.for an efficient collection service to operate My local council has never used wheelie bins and they reckon they have saved millions in not doing so.Black plastic bags are used for kitchen waste and non recyclable items like polystyrene and margarine tubs,cat litter and so on and this goes ro landfill tips.This waste is collected weekly.Pink plastic sacks are used for paper of all sorts,directories,magazines,ca... plastic bottles,tin cans from beer and food,aerosols,fabrics,shoes etc.White degradable cornstarch sacks are used for green waste,grass mowings,prunings,weeds,leaves,... cut flowers etc. all of which can be turned into compost.An orange plastic box,like a milk crate is used for glass bottles and jars,of any colour.The pink & .white sacks and the glass are collected every two weeks.The scheme works well.The fact that wheelie bins are not involved probably helps in the separation.The council percentage of total waste that is recycled has increased considerably.Shoul a pink sack be deemed to contain incorrect material it will have a sticker put on the sack and it will not be collected.The bag should be resorted, but in most cases they are not. The next week it will be collected with the black bags and go to landfill.As all the bags are placed in a communal heap at the rear of our houses it is not known which bags belong to which house so fines etc. are not practical. Nor can there be any limits on the amount of waste put out for collection by any one household.
It''s a farce isn't it? I have got 5 bins outside my back door! 2 for regular rubbish,1 for garden waste,1 for glass and 1 for paper.All of which go out on on different days.Any slight contravention of the silly rules and the bin stands unemptied.The binmen use this as an excuse to do only half a job.The biggest joke of all was when they refused to empty the glass bin because one of the jars I put in had smashed.At collection the bins are hoisted into the air and the glass crashes into the truck anyway! When I phoned to complain I was fobbed off with the old 'Elf and safety' issue and told that if it happened again I would be fined! I now take perverse joy out of getting one over on them,petty stuff like hiding grass cuttings under the news papers! Sad but true!
How many bins per house hold do we need?
paper
metal
plastic
decorating and refurbishing
food waste
miscellaneous
i live in a top flat and would not desire to keep going up and down every time nor keep separate items in my kitchen,its not big enough as it is,with out having a bin waiting to be filled to the top with rotting wasted food.
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