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Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« on: 12 December 2006, 10:59:18 »
As I've been pretty much marooned in the house the past few weeks (not allowed to drive again until today - yippee   :y  ) I have given the paper shredder a good bashing and cleared out the cupboard most of us have where paper records going back years and years are kept....  The shredder box needed emptying quite a few times, I can tell you!!

Today is bin day around my way.  

We are all 'greenified' by local council instruction with seperate wheelie bins for garden stuff (brown bin) paper (blue bin) and general household (grey bin)  It alternates weekly between grey and blue.  Today is blue bin day.

Bin placed around the front of the house as normal at the rear of my Omega where all the other bins are placed for the binmen to empty.

Just looked outside to find that three bins have been tipped over, mine included.  And the wind has emptied mine of paper shreddings (did I say I had the super dooper shredder that chops it up into fine chips, rather than strips?) all over the street.  And my black 'Meega.  As its been p*ss*ng down the past couple of days, everything is soaking and my car looks like an extra from a cheap Hollywood winter scene.   >:(  As does the front of my driveway.   >:(

Not chuffed.......    :D

Hope it dries soon and I can get it swept up, before its dragged in on shoes and into the house.....  

Bah!!  Humbug!!    ;D

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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #1 on: 12 December 2006, 11:09:19 »
Ahhh, the good old Jock weather eh Broocie. Still, I suppose it makes a change from cats or vandals doing it.

Good to hear your recovery's progressing well mate. :y  Bet you can't wait to slip behind the wheel of the meega again!  8-)
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #2 on: 12 December 2006, 11:47:54 »
Weather?  Its the old story - if you don't like the weather, wait 15 mins!  

It was tipping it down with very high winds, then marble sized hailstone and now, the sun is splitting the sky!   All within 45 minutes!   Brilliant   ;D
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #3 on: 12 December 2006, 12:20:44 »
I HATE this bin polical correctness.

I pay substantial taxes, council tax, income tax, taxation tax etc etc etc.

Yet i am consistantly asked to do someone elses job  >:( I must have a black bin, brown bin, green bin and blue bin in lanarkshire. I didnt pay a fortune for a new house to blockade it with cheap lumps of plastic.

As far as i am conerned it all goes in the one bin and its up to them to do what they want after collection it ( whiich i should add should be done twice weekly)

I dont like someone that i pay the wages of refusing to empty my rubbish because its got a newspaper in it!!

Same problem here Broocie in the west and its also blue bin day here - perhaps this is the reason for my outburst

oh and apologies to any greens or bin men  ;)
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #4 on: 12 December 2006, 13:01:06 »
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I HATE this bin polical correctness.

I pay substantial taxes, council tax, income tax, taxation tax etc etc etc.

Yet i am consistantly asked to do someone elses job  >:( I must have a black bin, brown bin, green bin and blue bin in lanarkshire. I didnt pay a fortune for a new house to blockade it with cheap lumps of plastic.

As far as i am conerned it all goes in the one bin and its up to them to do what they want after collection it ( whiich i should add should be done twice weekly)

I dont like someone that i pay the wages of refusing to empty my rubbish because its got a newspaper in it!!

Same problem here Broocie in the west and its also blue bin day here - perhaps this is the reason for my outburst

oh and apologies to any greens or bin men  ;)

Pretty soon mate you'll have no choice but to sort it. Or the rubbish police will be round to sort you ;D
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #5 on: 12 December 2006, 14:00:54 »
It's a mad,bad situation, if my bin lid isn't completely closed it will not be emptied :o
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #6 on: 12 December 2006, 14:05:24 »
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It's a mad,bad situation, if my bin lid isn't completely closed it will not be emptied :o


thats just outragous  :o >:(
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #7 on: 12 December 2006, 14:06:44 »
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It's a mad,bad situation, if my bin lid isn't completely closed it will not be emptied :o


thats just outragous  :o >:(

Tell me about it, if its an inch open they just walk straight passed it :-/
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #8 on: 12 December 2006, 14:09:24 »
I think the funniest thing I have heard is they dont class garden rubble as garden waste, now if it was something that breaks down over time they take it.

A neighbour of mine filled his brown bin up only to be told to get it emptied somewhere else ;D
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #9 on: 12 December 2006, 14:13:26 »
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It's a mad,bad situation, if my bin lid isn't completely closed it will not be emptied :o


thats just outragous  :o >:(

Tell me about it, if its an inch open they just walk straight passed it :-/

same round this way.  If its not closed, it does not get done.

Had a 'frank and earnest exchange of views' with the driver when all this first came into being.  He quoted health and safety reasons.  I spoke with his supervisor.  They sent a lorry round specially to uplift later in the day.  Likewise, if its not in the bin, they wil not pick it up.  And I mean in a sealed binbag!

And, the reason for the mess outside my house in the first place? If there is any plastic (carrier bag?) in the paper bin, again they will not uplift, so chippings had to be emptied into the bin.

Really grips my sh*t, to be honest!
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #10 on: 12 December 2006, 14:18:52 »
It's a joke really, if it's not shut they won't take it, but whats the first thing they do..... open it to see what's in it  :o
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #11 on: 12 December 2006, 16:53:40 »
we have a similar setup in Brackley northants, however here in west london its all still old school

Until about a year ago, we just put everything in black bin bags, and put it out the front, but now they have introduced clear bags, for plastics and paper. However no one seams to be bothering, most weeks i only see black bags, no clear (its taken on the same day).

Also we only take the bags out about once a month, we shove them in the garage here and forget about them... once we took 17 bags out!  ;D  Compared to next doors 2 bags  ::)
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #12 on: 12 December 2006, 18:06:00 »
We're still on the black binbags collected weekly, with a green box for glass and plastic and a blue sack for paper which are collected fortnightly. The gripe is the green box is full in less than a week, and the blue bag isn't much better.
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #13 on: 12 December 2006, 19:15:31 »
As Tunnie says, in Brackley, we have had to tolerate this for 5 or 6 years. Black bin for rubbish, green for compostable, emptied on alternate weeks. In the summer, it does stink.

I had a long discussion with some dozy bimbo from the council, asking where my £1500 per year goes - pavement upkeep (dont have any my way), police (where?), library (dont use), schools (dont use), rubbish collection.

So, I pay £1500 per year to have my bin emptied 26 times - so over £55 a time. She agreed, this wasn't value for money...
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Re: Blue bins and a blustery wet day....
« Reply #14 on: 12 December 2006, 20:34:43 »
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As Tunnie says, in Brackley, we have had to tolerate this for 5 or 6 years. Black bin for rubbish, green for compostable, emptied on alternate weeks. In the summer, it does stink.

I had a long discussion with some dozy bimbo from the council, asking where my £1500 per year goes - pavement upkeep (dont have any my way), police (where?), library (dont use), schools (dont use), rubbish collection.

So, I pay £1500 per year to have my bin emptied 26 times - so over £55 a time. She agreed, this wasn't value for money...

Quality.....
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