UK Bin Crimes To Carry Heavier Penalty Than Theft

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In a bid to cut the scourge of 'bin-crime' in the UK, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has given her backing to £110 fines for families who disobey laws. Bin crimes include overfilling (so the lid doesn't close) and putting them out too early.

Such is the seriousness of bin-crime that the penalties are now £30 higher than the penalties given to shoplifters and drunken louts, many of which aren't paid. There has been 3 years of growth in fines placed on law-abiding families over bins.

Fewer collections and confusion over multiple bins has made it more difficult to dispose of rubbish. The fines are set to capitalise on this. Bin criminals may receive records if they fail to pay, shoplifters and drunks often avoid such measures.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-overfill-110-fine--drunken-yob-receive.html
 
Making bin collections every 2 weeks instead of every one week does NOT reduce the amount of rubbish a household makes.

It is screamingly obvious that people will fly tip. I do not do this myself, I do however wonder which idiot comes up with these ideas.
 
Ben M said:
How is it suddenly complicated to have rubbish collected?
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Because it is easier to take on the people putting the stuff in the bins rather than the giant corporations who package their products with needless amounts of paper, cardboard and plastic.

Look at the carrier bag situation, Marks and Spencer now let you BUY a bag that "Lasts for life" doesn't that fly in the face of the reason why carrier bags are bad?

Net result, we get screwed, Marks and Spencer make money.
 
8 of us in our house and 1 wheelie bin

id love to see this hilary person fit all our rubbish in one wheelie bin and shut the lid.

no ones ever said anything to us about it to be fair
 
"andy" said:
8 of us in our house and 1 wheelie bin

id love to see this hilary person fit all our rubbish in one wheelie bin and shut the lid.

no ones ever said anything to us about it to be fair
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February this year.......... My local "Refuse Operatives"

We have just had the bins emptied where we live. To the rear of our houses there is a secure gated car park and a small building where the bins are stored. People in the house have there own bins, people in the apartments have the large green commercial bins.

As saw the bin men coming i went out and took my bin, the gates that give access to the car park have had the code changed so I opened the gates for the in men.

So far so good, nothing unusual I hear you say.

Now one of the big green commercial bins was very full, to the point where the lid wouldn't close.

Now it gets funny, the bin man takes the extra bin bags ans throws them on the floor, and puts the bin on the back of the truck to be emptied.

As they get ready to go I notice 3 maybe 4 bin bags on the floor, the ones removed from the big bin. I ask the bin men if they are going to put the in the bin lorry, the reply I got was:

"Sorry mate we can't handle bin bags, they have to be in the bin"

Now I admitted that the bin lid should be closed but pointed out that one of the bin men did exactly what he just said they weren't aloud to do!!

They now point blank refuse to put the bags in the bin lorry so we have 3 steaming bin bags left behind.

At this point I just picked up the bags, lobbed them in the back of them bin lorry, cue "Oi what yer doin'" and the like.

Now one of the guys went to take them out of the bin truck, at which point I reminded him that "Sorry mate your not allowed to handle bin bags" and kindly informed him that I have my phone in my pocket and if he breaks his own rules I am going to film him doing so and report him.

It gets serious at the point, the driver jumps out and asks what is going on, I explain and he starts spouting on about rules are rules, at which point I point out that the rules have already been broken so why not just chalk this one down to experience and be done with it.

We are getting no where at this point, so I took out my phone and called the local council and asked to speak to the refuse department, "Woah hold on mate, there is no need for that" I reply "Well rules are rules mate, we can't have them broken can we now we"

The driver then rounds up his crew, tells me he is going and me not to do it again and he would let me off this time !!!

The end result, common sense prevailed, home win, Slinwagh.
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Greenlizard0 said:
How do those green point things work? I see posters for them up but can't quite figure it out.

You re-use 4 bags of your own, and you get 4 points on a god forsaken different type of club card?
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No, normal club card points.
 
Will this stop the complete ***** ***** who keep on coming around about an hour before pick-up and stuffing all their crap into people's bins around here, making the bins that were 'within the rules' and closed unable to be closed anymore? :rolleyes:
 
my neighbours bins lid is always open because they overfil there bins

How can i get them fined?
 
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