Dustbinmen, you all suck

[bigmouse64]

If my black bin slightly overflows, don't be a bunch of ***** *****s and refuse to sling it in your poxy van. And you all wonder why you get the tiniest amount of respect. Thanks making me having to use that one bin for a month's worth of waste now.

Losers.

No swearing

Gilly

Ignore me.

 

[Feef]

Well, when I'm with my parents over in Austria, we seem to end up recycling absolutely everything. It's never that much hassle, any cans or plastics by the door, we take to the end of the road on our way out, and there's a bin for cardboard in the entrance to the flats. There's only one normal sized wheelie bin for rubbish for every flat in the building, and I've never seen it full (that said, I don't know how often it's collected )

Up at uni, our street it just flats all down both sides, so all the rubbish goes in the giant dumpster style bins - out the front door and about 10m to the left. Cans/plastics go to the end of the road on the right, and glass we take to the recycling point around the corner. Sorted.

I remember tidying up after a party in Northwood a few weeks ago, had to separate the steel cans from the aluminium ones...I didn't even know they were different up until that point!

Not taking your bin seems a little silly, but as said, contact someone about it if you want a decent reason why - though I'd suggest you chill a bit and don't launch sweeping insults at them when you do.

 

[Hyper]

I had a house party this weekend and ended up with a lot of empty cans and bottles which wouldnt all fit in the recycle bin so I have had to disguise some in my normal bin, hope they dont notice

 

[krisboats]

I had a house party this weekend and ended up with a lot of empty cans and bottles which wouldnt all fit in the recycle bin so I have had to disguise some in my normal bin, hope they dont notice

My parents had the same problem as the OP, the dustbinmen refused to take the bin as it was 10cm or so open. It wasn't even our fault, someone had come along and stuck another bag in it and tried crushing it down into the bin. The council "wouldn't be able to collect it as the collection routes weren't established yet". My dad was furious , strongly worded letter to the council demanding an apology and he got it as well

Round here though all the uni shared houses are given 1 bin for 5-6 people households. They get filled up within a week and have alternating collections of black general waste one week and red and green recycling bags the next. The council tell us we have to pay for an extra bin if its not adequate to hold our rubbish. Everyone i know just puts general waste inside double bagged green/red bags and they get taken away for recycling.

 

[jumpy]

Our bin dudes collect every friday morning at about 6am. Delightful racket they make too.

We have a 'recycling bin' as well, though calling it a 'bin' is misleading seeing as it's about the size of a beer crate. I seem to recall that we got told off for putting the wrong kind of paper in it too... go figure

 

[Scuzi]

I too have fallen foul of the refuse collection men. I tried to engage one in conversation once and needless to say, we were on very different levels. It went something like this:

"I say, the result for our local sporting team at the weekend was rather disappointing, no?"
"You *** mate?"
"Yes, indeed. May I say, your footwear is delightfully eccentric. I adore the hole in the toe of your desert boot"
"**** off matey or oi'll giv yew a kickin"

Needless to say, my refuse was ignored on a regular basis from then on in.

 

[romperstomper]

Yeah most of them are morans hence what they do for a living ,they always return the wrong bin and leave it blocking the pavements even though we all have drive ways .
They were much nicer before wheelie bins came out and all the good ones got laid off !

 

[Mr Joshua]

morans

Ouch.

 

[I_Am_Vengeance]

I too have fallen foul of the refuse collection men. I tried to engage one in conversation once and needless to say, we were on very different levels. It went something like this:

"I say, the result for our local sporting team at the weekend was rather disappointing, no?"
"You *** mate?"
"Yes, indeed. May I say, your footwear is delightfully eccentric. I adore the hole in the toe of your desert boot"
"**** off matey or oi'll giv yew a kickin"

Needless to say, my refuse was ignored on a regular basis from then on in.

Do you really start a conversation with "I say.." ? Or was that for effect?

 

[Scuzi]

Do you really start a conversation with "I say.." ? Or was that for effect?

I say, what do you think old boy?

 

[I_Am_Vengeance]

I should very well hope not, dearest.

 

[dbmzk1]

Isn't that what everyone does these days? We've been doing that for years.

In Manchester they have had wheelie bins for years. Now I live in Stockport and here we use bags. We have a bin to put the bags in while you are waiting for the collection, but you just put the bags out for collection not the bin itself. They now deliver a large roll of 60 bags once a year. Yet we have a wheelie bin for garden waste Idiots tbh.

EDIT: Just read in the councils paper that we will be getting wheelie bins in 2009-10! Woo!