fuming at my neighbour

Our bin men are great as well, our bin is always overflowing by at least 2-3 bags and they always take the whole lot. Strangely we rarely overfilled it when it was weekly collected, now we have all the recycling bins and its every two weeks, they are always overflowing and bursting, go figure!
 
They used to have to go round the back of your house and collect all the rubbish bags from those round bins before the wheely bins. Now they moan about the handle facing the wrong direction :rolleyes:.
 
Refuse collectors are a nightmare these days. Once, the guys wouldn't pick up a bag because it was on the opposite side that the bin lorry was on! And it was in a lane!

Bring back the old days of reliable refuse collectors. Country is going down the swany fast in many ways.
 
I am so glad I have a good council (Greenwich). We get three bins - blue for recycling, green for food and garden waste and black for general waste.

I have filled them all at different times and there are loads of times the lids will not close for one reason or another, but they always get taken and oddly the bins always seem to be back at the top of my drive when I get back home from work.
 
AHarvey said:
its not the council, it's the jobsworth bin men. The ones here are sound and I've even seen them walk up paths to collect some from the bungalows down the road. Sometimes the oaps are ill, or just forget. Always seem them having a break around the corner with one old lady who gives them tea and cakes, that's been going on for at least 10 years.
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Whilst I aren't compaining too much, I have four bins that I have to keep on my property!
  • Black (general household waste);
  • Blue (paper);
  • Green (garden and food), and
  • Brown (plastic and metal).
Whilst its a good idea, I'd imagine for those who don't have too much space its a right pain to keep four large bins on their property.
Binmen on who whole do a great job. Its a long, tough job in any weather and they are constantly on the move, so kudos to them really.
 
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estebanrey said:
LOL, do you know how much that refund will amount to (not that you'd get it anyway)? About a £1.
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Thats not the point.

They havent done what they have been paid to do, the price isnt the issue, they've set a price for a service and not delivered it.

Also, the national % of your council tax bill that is spent on refuse collection, is between 30 and 35%.

So its over £3.50 a week or £7 pounds a fortnight rounded down

You'd tell the window cleaner to get up his ladder and do it again if he charged you a £5 a fortnight and left your windows dirty wouldnt you?

Its no wonder our district councils finances are screwed if you dont even know what budgets you are working to every year.
 
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I have no problem with neighbours putting a bit of their rubbish in my bin if it comes to collection day and I have some room left.

The "lid open" policy is a joke though. We left a 3 seater sofa, two wardrobes and about 10 full contractors bags beside our garbage can when we moved out of our house in New Orleans. They took the lot without complaint!
 
we have been given this new bin to go with the 4 we already have.

Its a small brown bin that comes in 2 parts small part is in the house to collect food scraps then put the bag into the larger brown one, about 15 ltr in size.

since this started the amount of foxes that have moved in is unbelievable, came home from a night shift and there's a fox sitting in my front garden watching me bold as brass.
 
Our council bin men will take my bin overflowing etc as long as the bin is at the bottom of driveway and with the handle round the right way for them ;)
 
the bin lid issue is stupid. i used to live with 3 mates so our bins were always full. they wouldn't take them if they were slightly overfull. i used to jump up and down in the bin to compact it. it took the bin men longer to empty them this way. it made more work for me and the bin men :confused:
 
atpbx said:
Thats not the point.

They havent done what they have been paid to do, the price isnt the issue, they've set a price for a service and not delivered it.

Also, the national % of your council tax bill that is spent on refuse collection, is between 30 and 35%.

So its over £3.50 a week or £7 pounds a fortnight rounded down

You'd tell the window cleaner to get up his ladder and do it again if he charged you a £5 a fortnight and left your windows dirty wouldnt you?

Its no wonder our district councils finances are screwed if you dont even know what budgets you are working to every year.
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I would love to know where your stats come from? Your local District Council that collects waste does not even get 30-35% of the overall payment to provide you with every service it has to provide....

I can give you a 100% accurate figure for my area and for a weekly refuse and two weekly recycling collection is 0.49p per household per week.

Band C listing here pays £1274
District gets £118 to provide waste collections, leisure, environment, housing, tourism, planning, benefits etc
County gets £1032 roads, schools, library's, care etc
police get £123

But all these rules and regulations are absurd, I run a waste contract that is sensible, we do not provide refuse bins, we will collect up to 5 black bags a week of refuse, and collect recycling in a bin every two weeks which includes paper, card, glass, plastic bottles, foil, tetra pak, aerosols. We are a family of four and never have any problems putting out about 2-3 bags a week the average amount of waste placed out each week is 2.2 bags . The problem is too many Councils have made silly rules and makes everyone think we are all crap. It would be like telling everyone OCUK is crap because another site offers crap service and charges high delivery costs!

The problem with this country is the first thing anyone wants to do when they have a neighbor issue is ring the Council, then they wonder why local government costs so much, the amount of neighbor disputes we get into is scary, the first question I always ask is "have you spoken with them" and i always get the same answer "no".....

What would I do if I was the op, the same thing I do to dog walkers who do not pick up after their dog, I take the crap back and put it on the doorstep for them, they don't do it again!
 
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opstrat said:
we have been given this new bin to go with the 4 we already have.

Its a small brown bin that comes in 2 parts small part is in the house to collect food scraps then put the bag into the larger brown one, about 15 ltr in size.

since this started the amount of foxes that have moved in is unbelievable, came home from a night shift and there's a fox sitting in my front garden watching me bold as brass.
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They tried that in our area. Everyone ignored it after a couple of months as you soon get fed up keeping a stinking food bin in the house.
 
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