brown bin and local council "rage"

bigmike20vt

bigmike20vt

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over egging maybe..... but annoyance for sure.

last autumn my other wise good shape got pretty much destroyed when emptied. it has a crack top to bottom the entire length of the bin.

the bin is only 6 years old after the old one was nicked so no wear and tear ... and it was barely full when emptied.
as it was the end of the season I didn't bother as bin replacement was always free however I went to report it today and they want £30 . that is on top of the £45 a year I have to pay. cheesed off about that. whilst I can't be sure how the bin men did it I can only assume they caught it in the machine somehow as these are tough bins.

apparently they can't sustain replacing all the stolen bins or neglected ones. but this was neither stolen more neglected it was damaged by the bin men.
 
Our brown bin has a spliut right up one side too - and I've noticed a few others the same, so they clearly have a weakness to it.

That said, it's been like it for at least a year, and nothing ever seems to leak out, so I've just put up with it.
 
Anyway of melting it a bit to bond it back together?

I admit there's a chance of setting it on fire depending on the method you use but, hey, you never know.
 
I noticed how light and flimsy our brown bin was when it was delivered and weighed it, compared to the refuse and recycling bins it's just 60% of their weight.

I don't know if that's because all new bins are weaker now or the council bought the cheapest it could to profit from the cost they charge us (£36 for bin, £60 a year to empty!)
 
Simon42 said:
I noticed how light and flimsy our brown bin was when it was delivered and weighed it, compared to the refuse and recycling bins it's just 60% of their weight.

I don't know if that's because all new bins are weaker now or the council bought the cheapest it could to profit from the cost they charge us (£36 for bin, £60 a year to empty!)
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Are you forgetting to account for the ******* lorry that is highly specialised to collect your trash and then cost of getting rid of it? Or do you genuinely think £36 for the bin is the only cost?
 
Who weighs their bins? How would you even weigh it?

I ******* hate going to the tip, £60 a year seems like a bargain for someone to collect it all for me.
 
ChrisD. said:
Who weighs their bins? How would you even weigh it?

I ******* hate going to the tip, £60 a year seems like a bargain for someone to collect it all for me.
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Haha it's weird man. My last two houses have been SO close to the tip it is outrageous. Like from a half a mile in the last house to maybe a 1/4 of a mile in this one. I've bought like 12 of those huge plastic buckets; so going to the tip before pretty much most family outings is a thing now :cry: :cry:
 
We get fortnightly garden waste collection free. Whoopee. Our bin only has a split across part of the lid, I expect the previous owner was using it to stand on.
 
Our green wheelie bin had this problem too - but we witnessed the refuse collectors bashing the bin on the back of the lorry to empty it. They broke it, they paid for the new one.
 
I'd have a look up and down the road on bin day, there's guaranteed to be some households that have an extra black or green bin( is near me anyway)

Nick one of the "extra" ones, spray it brown, bung your house humber on the front and voila!
 
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