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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

When I had my first house, the garage/car port was open through to the garden where we kept our traditional galvanised steel bins. The dustmen walked through and collected them, along with anything placed close by (care needed, if you wanted to keep it!), and then brought it back again.
No luxury of wheels on the bins and no customers doing most of their job for them by sorting rubbish - they actually did the job they were paid for!
Remember those halcyon days?......

Ron.

I remember that system too. If you look at the cobbled back streets oop north - I believe Bore-anation Street's opening & closing credits shows them  , there used to be a small door for each back yard where the bin lived. The bin man walked down the backs, opened the door, removed the bin, emptied it & then replaced it.  The binners then used to have a leather shoulder protector. There again, there wasn't the packaging to put in the bin compared with now.

In Liverpool, and I'm sure Manchester, we had a hole in the back yard wall, with a metal frame, which the bin slotted into. Our bin men would park at the top of the jigger and walk up and down with heavy metal bins over their shoulders. In snow, wind, rain, the lot. Good, honest grafters who were, unfortunately, treated like shit for what they did.
In the days of almost full employment, binmen were definitely bottom of the ladder.

They didn't even moan when the bin was filled with concrete and builders rubble.

[Steve B]

In Leicester We just Fly Tip the lot over the Northampton Border 

[LFF64]

I don't understand why they make getting rid of rubbish so difficult to be honest the local tips are really fussy Swmbo has a fiat fiorino it's the combi so looks part van but actually has rear seats so it is the car version but every time we go to the top they question it as they say it is a van and they are not allowed unless you get the correct permit
No wonder people fly tip really surely it would be easier to let people get rid of rubbish easily  then they wouldn't have the cost of clear fly tipped rubbish
Get people on benefits out there sorting it and earn their benefits money

[Varche]

In Leicester We just Fly Tip the lot over the Northampton Border 

seems reasonable

[05omegav6]

Bloke might have had a point if there was half an exhaust sticking out, but a) I tend to chop them up first, and b) the lid was closed

[BazaJT]

Here we have a green bin for household waste,red/maroon for plastics and cardboard,brown for garden waste,a green box for paper and a blue box for glass,cans and small electrical appliances.If you use the local tip and go in a van you need a permit,but if you chopped the same items up so they'd fit in your car you'd be ok!

[Rods2]

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, anybody would think that they were meant to serve you where you were paying for the service. Oh err, you are.

Personally, in this day and age I can't see why there can't be a default service provision and a website, where you can choose who empties your bin and how regularly with a refund if it is cheaper than the standard service provision and a surcharge if the service your require is more expensive.

It will never happen where this provides a flexible service, competition and choice all of which are belzebub to the public service mantra of one size fits all, and it's rare, expensive, provision, all normally delivered as a totally crap service and with the attitude 'be lucky for what you are getting' as you have no other choice, but that is monopolies for you.

Governments love them, but they are so bad, they quite rightly don't allow them with private businesses.

There are much better ways of delivering public services, but it makes those in charge unimportant and that would never do.

[the alarming man]

Bin....whats one of those??...we have to buy black sacks for household rubbish..but must admit f they will take anything that is placed in a black sack!!

[STEMO]

Bin....whats one of those??...we have to buy black sacks for household rubbish..but must admit f they will take anything that is placed in a black sack!!

How much per sack?

[YZ250]

At least the Refuse Collectors around our way have a sense of humour. They left a 'Refusal Notice' with reason for refusal as  'Too Heavy' ............ on a full Jumbo Bag of ballast left at the end of our drive in preparation for building work. 

[the alarming man]

Bin....whats one of those??...we have to buy black sacks for household rubbish..but must admit f they will take anything that is placed in a black sack!!

How much per sack?

[STEMO]

Bin....whats one of those??...we have to buy black sacks for household rubbish..but must admit f they will take anything that is placed in a black sack!!

How much per sack?

A simple question. You have to buy them, how much. I take it that these are the black sacks with the council logo on them, not just black sacks bought from a shop?

[ted_one]

Just another jobsworth,come the revolution....I'll be out with my shotgun and a decent chainsaw,will be filling up the bins with bits of our bin men...that should stop them driving over my grass and leaving frigging great ruts in it.they are the worst bin men we have ever had and leave more rubbish lying in the road than goes in the truck I can wait!!

[STEMO]

For the last two weeks, and without warning, our binmen have been a private company, not the council.

[Kevin Wood]

Fortunately, our bin men can't be @rsed to lift the lid on the bin, so I get away with a multitude of sins.