Dustbinmen, you all suck

Basically, on my bin the lid was actually close but slightly open (at an angle of 20 degrees or so, one bag above the top). It's apparently enough for those binmen to think 'oh I don't need to bother with that' and be on their merry, pitiful sad waste of lives way.

Yes I am actually pretty peed off, but for good reason. These bin men just don't realize how much of an inconvenience they are by being overtly petulant. I'll take a photo of the bin in a minute, you guys will laugh.
 
The mid terrace house in Leeds i currently share with some students has a driveway and a narrow pavement in front of which. If i place the bins at the end of the driveway where there are no gates, with the bins off the pavement as to not obstruct people walking past due to parked cars they don't collect them. However, if placed on the pavement (we have 3 large bins total) making it very hard for pedestrians to pass and increasing the likelyhood that some drunk **** will kick them over on their way home the bins probability of getting emptied increases, to somewhere around 50/50.
 
I came home this lunch time to find 3 smashed bottles on the floor where I had put out my bottles only for the bin men to drop them and leave broken glass all over my drive :/

Thanks Very Much!!
 
maybe a few of you guys should go be bin men, and actualy see the stuff they have to put up with from there bosses, iv worked on the bins via an agency and my old man (que song) was a dustman for over 25 years up to last year when he retired. and lets just say the rules they have to follow are rather silly.

they cant do 6am starts any more as some people (the same fools complaining now about rush hour starts) moaned at being woken up at 6am, as for the bags on the floor and over flowing bins, thats all thanks to health and saftey. yes the good ole hse say they cant pick up bags incase theres needles in them.

and wheelie bins where introdiced by the gov and local councils as a way of stopping vermin getting in to the bags.

but if you dont like the service complaine to your local mp (like they care) or contact your local news paper and the council at the same time informing them about your letter to the news paper, just dont have a pop at the guys doing the job as they have very little say in how its run nowadays.
 
dustiestrat said:
down our way everyones been issued with big wheelie bins because bin men dont even wanna lift the bins. not only that but we have to wheel; them to the end of our drives on collection day if it isnt touching the pavement they won't touch it.
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Same here! We also had "instructions" on how to place the new wheelie bins for pick-up! They have to be no more than 3" from the kerb with the handle facing towards the road.

The main problem we have with these new bins is that it's an absolute pain to drag them from the back-yard all the way around to the front of the house.
 
Bin men, just like the rest of the Council are a complete waste of space. Makes you wonder what they do with all our Council Tax? :mad: Apart from offer free Engrish lessons to immigrants, of course! :(
 
Our bin's are now collected every 2 weeks and we can only have 4 bags in the bin or they won't take them. The problem is when they changed the system they missed a week and didn't let us know when the next collection was so we missed it:rolleyes:

We recycle all our cardboard and plastic but due to the amount of people at our house we produce more than 4 bags in 2 weeks! We now have about 10 or more bags in our garden stinking and i have no idea how we can get rid of them.

It's bloody disgusting, and the fact that they wont take an extra bag even if i've squashed it in the bin is too:mad:
 
we have 3 wheelie bins one for garden and food waste one for recyling stuff and a black one for household waste plus we are getting a box for glass jars and bottles. We also have the fussiest binmen ever, I once layed a piece of cardboard on top of the recycling bin so the lid didn't close perfectly so they didn't take the bin so of course next time it would be over flowing so I ended up having to put stuff in the black bin.
 
GAC said:
maybe a few of you guys should go be bin men, and actualy see the stuff they have to put up with from there bosses, iv worked on the bins via an agency and my old man (que song) was a dustman for over 25 years up to last year when he retired. and lets just say the rules they have to follow are rather silly.

they cant do 6am starts any more as some people (the same fools complaining now about rush hour starts) moaned at being woken up at 6am, as for the bags on the floor and over flowing bins, thats all thanks to health and saftey. yes the good ole hse say they cant pick up bags incase theres needles in them.

and wheelie bins where introdiced by the gov and local councils as a way of stopping vermin getting in to the bags.

but if you dont like the service complaine to your local mp (like they care) or contact your local news paper and the council at the same time informing them about your letter to the news paper, just dont have a pop at the guys doing the job as they have very little say in how its run nowadays.
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If they're poorly treated then good. Because they certainly give a lot of people grief by not bothering to sling away even the most trivial of rubbish. Look, I took a picture;

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Dustbin men have very little say, I hear you say? That doesn't excuse them from being total buttholes and refusing bins like mine just because of one or two extra bags. It's ridiculous, and you know it. If these binmen get grief from their uppers, guess what, no sympathy from me whatsoever.

If you are a dustbin man and you're reading this: I hate you with all my bitter soul. Go away.
 
Fiocca said:
Our bin's are now collected every 2 weeks and we can only have 4 bags in the bin or they won't take them. The problem is when they changed the system they missed a week and didn't let us know when the next collection was so we missed it:rolleyes:

We recycle all our cardboard and plastic but due to the amount of people at our house we produce more than 4 bags in 2 weeks! We now have about 10 or more bags in our garden stinking and i have no idea how we can get rid of them.

It's bloody disgusting, and the fact that they wont take an extra bag even if i've squashed it in the bin is too:mad:
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How do they regulate the 4 bags in a bin? how about emptying the contents of the bin bags straight into the bin?
 
I don't have a problem with the refuse collection. Always on the same day and on time. They give us plenty of notice of any differences to the collection well in advance.

I do have a problem with the Recycle collections. We have to sort tins and glass into a green bucket and the (washed) plastic into large clear bags.

If the stuff doesn't blow half way across Chelmsford, then kids kick it every where. Since the recycle collections have started, this has become a problem. The council then have to spend money on street collection. Doesn't make sense really.

The recycle collectors tend to sort everything before it goes in (hence clear bags), chucking on the floor anything that shouldn't be there. This makes me really angree because we really make the effort so what message does this send out.

In Ipswich, they have blue wheelie bins for ALL recycle stuff, which is sorted the other end. A better solution IMO.
 
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if they wont take that contact the council ASAP and send them the photo. as that is taking the mick.

only time iv seen them refuse stuff is when the bin is burried in bags (i have seen this where the bin is half coverd, and not even at christmas) or when the bin lift cant even lift it because someones used it to dispose of building waste.

but that bin should have been taken, if they refused it there not even doing there job.

i guess it depends where you live to what level of service you get out of them.
 
excaliborg said:
How do they regulate the 4 bags in a bin? how about emptying the contents of the bin bags straight into the bin?
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Well the bin will only fit that amount, just! Good idea on chucking the crap straight in as it should take more that way, may give this a try! But we still have the problem of having a stupid amount of em in the garden to chuck somehow.
 
.Kencs said:
Meks me laugh how we pay all this cash in tax and stuff and we still have to seperate our bins and make sure it aint over flowing...you know the binmen go to their own house and throw everything into 1 bin, mix and match really....yet they get away with it...
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So you think you're paying "all this cash in tax and stuff" to pay some poor sod to sift through your rubbish to segregate it and pick it up off the ground when your bin overflows because you're too lazy to do it properly yourself?

Local councils encourage recycling, not because it's better for the environment, but because the government levies astronomical landfill charges on them to force them to do it. If you don't recycle your waste, your council tax will be even more ludicrous than it is now.

Binmen are surely allowed some dignity. I'm damn sure I wouldn't expect another human being to sift through the rubbish I create because I can't be bothered to do it myself. How much effort is it anyway? If I have a tin can or a plastic bottle, I give it a quick rinse and bung it in the plastic box - takes about 10 seconds longer than chucking it in the bin - oh noes, I missed 10 seconds of Coronation Street.

As for the overflowing bin thing. If you can't be bothered to push the bag further down into the bin so that the lid can close, don't expect someone else to do it for you. I't's not the binmen who are lazy - it's you.
 
Bigstan said:
As for the overflowing bin thing. If you can't be bothered to push the bag further down into the bin so that the lid can close, don't expect someone else to do it for you. I't's not the binmen who are lazy - it's you.
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So that makes it alright for them to refuse the bin I posted earlier? I don't quite think so. Oh I'm lazy I didn't push the lid down. Actually it should be - oh the binmen are lazy they can't be bothered to just take the bin to the truck and sling it over anyway. You and I both know that tiny amount of overflow actually makes no difference. This is a farcial situation no matter which way you look at it.

Don't call me lazy, I have my own flat, I work, I pay my bills, I go through a lot of waste because I'm a busy man - and I really don't need to put up with this lax attitude by binman who simply put, can't be bothered. I now have to make amends for the next two weeks, and a few trips to the tip.
 
Hobgoblin said:
your not paying tax have your bins separated. god forbid you have to put some slight effort into your own waste disposal. try recycling any stuff you can, then your bin wont overflow.

we used to have 4 or 5 black bags per pick up, we now have a compost bin and then recycle paper/cardboard and tins (metal) and glass and now we rarely go over 2 bin bags , and we have our own compost. no overflow and no left full bins for a month.

win win.
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well said that man
 
They don't pick up bins now because many people filled bags with little thought that someone just doing their job may be harmed. why should they risk getting toxoplasmosis or worse?
 
Fiocca said:
Our bin's are now collected every 2 weeks and we can only have 4 bags in the bin or they won't take them. The problem is when they changed the system they missed a week and didn't let us know when the next collection was so we missed it:rolleyes:

We recycle all our cardboard and plastic but due to the amount of people at our house we produce more than 4 bags in 2 weeks! We now have about 10 or more bags in our garden stinking and i have no idea how we can get rid of them.

It's bloody disgusting, and the fact that they wont take an extra bag even if i've squashed it in the bin is too:mad:
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Find out hen your council is having a meeting, get some mates and walk in dump all the bags on their big table and tell them its their problem now.
 
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