Bin men don't lift bags left outside the bin?

Steeps said:
It's not H&S, your council will have a contract with a waste management company to clear a certain amount of waste based on an average usage. Trucks are weighed to calculate usage but as a fair usage policy they will not collect overflowing or overweight bins, otherwise they might not have the capacity to finish their round if everyone had an overflowing bin.
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This. The alternative will be to pay the company more to add extra capacity. Our council won't do this because they like to blame their woeful financial decisions on the incumbent government (it's a long-standing Labour council). They can, however, find millions to loan a private company who want to buy a local shopping centre - a company that features several prominent councillors.

/end rant
 
Whitewater said:
This. The alternative will be to pay the company more to add extra capacity. Our council won't do this because they like to blame their woeful financial decisions on the incumbent government (it's a long-standing Labour council). They can, however, find millions to loan a private company who want to buy a local shopping centre - a company that features several prominent councillors.

/end rant
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It's almost like there something untoward going on and a conflict of interests...

Perhaps if someone mentioned it to the local MP he'd do something about it? Unless his wife was one of the Councillors, his best friend the director of a construction company that keeps getting all major council work schemes and he connected to several others that look to profit from this?
 
I remember when bin men were MEN. ;)

Black bomber jackets hauling steel bins up and down the jigger all day.
They just pussies now who like to throw the odd sticker on a bin if something is deemed unsuitable for said disposal bin. :mad:
 
Whitewater said:
This. The alternative will be to pay the company more to add extra capacity. Our council won't do this because they like to blame their woeful financial decisions on the incumbent government (it's a long-standing Labour council). They can, however, find millions to loan a private company who want to buy a local shopping centre - a company that features several prominent councillors.

/end rant
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That's interesting, I remember it being bad when I lived in a long standing Labour council area about 10 years ago (Slough council - ugh). They wouldn't take the rubbish if the bin lid wasn't completely shut. South Bucks which is a Conservative council (and I believe has been for years) is the complete opposite and they will take whatever you leave near the bin. I also notice a lot less fly tipping in the area, or maybe it's cleared up quicker.
 
Where I live the big wheely bins quite regularly get pinched, then the council replace them with a nice small bin to *encourage* recycling apparently. I haven't lost mine, probably because I engraved it all over in 6 inch high house numbers.

The bin men also won't take anything outside the wheely bin. Forget to put your bin out, somehow you have to make one bin last 4 weeks! Bi weekly collection!!! :mad:

Oh and neighbours sneaking onto your property to put their rubbish in your bin is common. :rolleyes:
 
itchy said:
I remember when bin men were MEN. ;)

Black bomber jackets hauling steel bins up and down the jigger all day.
They just pussies now who like to throw the odd sticker on a bin if something is deemed unsuitable for said disposal bin. :mad:
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Indeed. We're becoming a generation of pansies. Just like in Demolition Man, it's becoming real. The better things in life are banned, swearing is banned and everyone is a wimp. Simon Phoenix vs 6 "new" police officers etc.

Hell, even at work, you have to fill in an A4 incident form if you have suffered a minor flesh wound i.e. a paper cut.
 
phone the council, say your bin has been stolen, pay the £15 for a new one to be delivered, put your house number on one bin, put it on the second but add an A after it and put them both out :D
 
Cleisthenes said:
Efour said:
Leave the UK ?
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Not gunna help. Round our way there is one man in the bin lorry and he doesn't get out. Anything outside the bin, or if the bin isn't far enough away from a fence and it won't be collected.:p

On topic. I presume if its a wheely bin then it's a machine that unloads it and the bin men probably can't reach the opening to just throw stuff in.
 
Amp34 said:
Not gunna help. Round our way there is one man in the bin lorry and he doesn't get out. Anything outside the bin, or if the bin isn't far enough away from a fence and it won't be collected.:p

On topic. I presume if its a wheely bin then it's a machine that unloads it and the bin men probably can't reach the opening to just throw stuff in.
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Incorrect presumption.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Indeed. We're becoming a generation of pansies. Just like in Demolition Man, it's becoming real. The better things in life are banned, swearing is banned and everyone is a wimp. Simon Phoenix vs 6 "new" police officers etc.

Hell, even at work, you have to fill in an A4 incident form if you have suffered a minor flesh wound i.e. a paper cut.
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Demolition Man! :D not seen that in years I might watch it tonight, I can recall they were all pussyfiyed beyond all recognition.
 
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