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

slinxy said:
To me it seems that bin men have become lazier and lazier..
I can remember the time when they used to come into your back grounds and pickup your metal bin, empty it then place it back nicely..

It was a dirty hard job, but I had respect for them to do it.

Now a days they use every excuse not to take your bins and they will leave your bins anyway.. My niece will always have to move everyone else's bins away from the front of her drive, as she lives on the corner and the bin men have deemed it the local dumping spot for bins.

It was only this week when the driver of a bin van decided not to stay where he was in a open space but move 50 yards down the road to block traffic on a one way street in front of a hospital with a fire station a bit down the road. Just so him and his work buddy have 50 yards less to wheel the bins.
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In fairness to the guys collecting the rubbish its not them making the rules, its someone at the Council deciding on the best type of service that they can afford to provide or pay a contractor to provide. Having just written a large specification for waste collection thats going to cost in the region of 5m a year I have had to specify everything including exactly how to empty a bin including when not to empty it.

The cost of waste collection and disposal is unreal, in West Sussex alone your looking at near 100m a year in total! If you allow people to place out unlimited bags, replace bins for free year on year the cost just increase, my local Council works out at £69.44 per household for refuse/rubbish collections, street/beach cleansing, public toilet, litter/dog bins provision and emptying seems dam good value to me.
 
kieranv said:
I have nothing to add other than that in the past year I've lived in 3 different areas and 3 different councils. Currently Glasgow City Council.

By far an away they are the worst I've had to deal with. In all respects.
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Think this chap doesn't have to put up with GCC just yet, still within SLC area I think......

For some reason we have too many bins so not long after moving in and clearing the place out I filled a spare blue 'paper' bin and popped it out beside the black bin. It was pretty obvious that they were both meant to be black bins but they still left it sitting.

If I then take the rubbish to the dump anyway it's still Viridor that will process it and end up in the same place.
 
stopper said:
Leave what exactly?
The "UK" isn't a place, it's a state :p
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Was amusing when some American asked where Britain was and someone posted a drawing. Whiskey at the top, London and quaint stuff at the bottom then leprechauns on the left.
 
They generally will empty a slightly overflowing bin here, never had an issue, I believe they are more unlikely to lift extra bags than empty a bin with the lid up half a foot.

Its a mixture of reasons, to encourage recycling in my area we have a big brown bin for biodegradable waste, and a 3 set of "kerby" bins for other recyclables, our general waste black bin is collected 2 weekly, also its unhygienic and unsightly to have bags laying in the street so punishing you by having to take it back in might encourage you to manage your bins better.

I can see why some people will see it as being petty or the sad old "MY TAXES PAY YOUR WAGE" argument, but if people in my area can manage to keep their waste under control with a 2 weekly pickup I don't see how others cant with the common 1 weekly pickup.
 
cheesyboy said:
Yeah it's a bit annoying. Especially when you buy something which comes with a lot of polystyrene and have to spend 8 weeks squeezing bits of it in the spaces between your two black bags in the wheelybin
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Chuck it all in a bowl of acetone and through the tiny lump in the bin?
 
slinxy said:
To me it seems that bin men have become lazier and lazier..
I can remember the time when they used to come into your back grounds and pickup your metal bin, empty it then place it back nicely..
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They also only did about 150 houses a day and were in the pub for dinneretime.
I had several mates who were bin men and they loved it.
 
V F said:
How many bins do people have nowadays?

I remember it used to be simple. The black bin. Then black wheelie bin. Then black and blue wheelie bin. Now I have black, blue and grey. Maroon and green is coming to us soon.

Some have 6 right?
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Yeah Northalleron has 6 i think.
 
Maybe ask for an additional bin, that's what I did when they brought in fortnightly collections, as oddly the rubbish produced didn't magically halve.
 
We only have a small black bin thats collected every 3 weeks. I asked for a larger bin (single pensioner used to live here) they refused.
So i just put anything remotely plastic in the plastic bin such as polystyrene, nappies will be going in the garden waste bin at this rate.
 
V F said:
How many bins do people have nowadays?

I remember it used to be simple. The black bin. Then black wheelie bin. Then black and blue wheelie bin. Now I have black, blue and grey. Maroon and green is coming to us soon.

Some have 6 right?
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We have black for general waste, blue for recycling, green for garden waste, and a black box for paper and cardboard. Thankfully we have enough room but it's getting a bit ridiculous now!
 
You'll probably find that if you were to ring up the council and tell them that there are bags "on the public highway" they'll come collect them.

In other words... tell them bags have been fly tipped and they'll come back. Providing they aren't on your property there's no issues.
 
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