View Full Version : Getting really P'off with my council, not collecting rubbish
timwilky
05-02-08, 05:53 PM
We have recycling round here, compostable& recyclable is collected one week and non recyclable the next.
The last collection of compostable waste was 11th December 2007. The next scheduled was 22nd January when they failed to turn up. Again today, they have failed to turn up. They justify only one collection of waste per fortnight in that we now have two bins so should be generating half the waste.
But when they haven't collected it for 2 months you can guess it is now over flowing and stinking and the excess has had to go in the general waste which is now overflowing as well.
Our wonderful labour council subcontracted it to some cowboy outfit couldn't organise a bonk in a brothel, and the residents to live with the incompetents legacy
sv-robo
05-02-08, 05:59 PM
yeah can be same round here mate,bring back the old dustbins and make the lazy:toss:ers earn there wages:mad:
That's really annoying that recycling ends up getting blamed when it's the p*** poor execution of the job that's to blame, not necessarily the recycling.
timwilky
05-02-08, 06:24 PM
Stu, Whilst I agree with your sentements. I have now had to abandon recycling as they are failing to collect and now treat rubbish as well rubbish
Bluepete
05-02-08, 06:27 PM
It's sunny tomorrow. The bin has wheels on it? You know where the Town Hall is? Fancy a walk?
timwilky
05-02-08, 06:29 PM
Look Pete, that is the problem, it is already overflowing. How the heck am I supposed to get the council in it as well
We have recycling round here, compostable& recyclable is collected one week and non recyclable the next.
The last collection of compostable waste was 11th December 2007. The next scheduled was 22nd January when they failed to turn up. Again today, they have failed to turn up. They justify only one collection of waste per fortnight in that we now have two bins so should be generating half the waste.
But when they haven't collected it for 2 months you can guess it is now over flowing and stinking and the excess has had to go in the general waste which is now overflowing as well.
Our wonderful labour council subcontracted it to some cowboy outfit couldn't organise a bonk in a brothel, and the residents to live with the incompetents legacy
Who was the firm that the council subcontracted too Tim ?
Who was the firm that the council subcontracted too Tim ?
Only the wife is the depot manager for a waste disposal company and could have organised a truck to collect it for you...free of charge, but Im sure you have it all in hand Tim, so I wont trouble you again.
timwilky
05-02-08, 08:35 PM
I think the company is called Violia
Same issue in Bristol I'm sad to say...
Boo!
Spiderman
05-02-08, 09:47 PM
Look Pete, that is the problem, it is already overflowing. How the heck am I supposed to get the council in it as well
i'm sure if you really tried hard enough you could at leat get the head of the council in there ;)
Sounds like he deserves it for handing out that contract.
We have recycling round here, compostable& recyclable is collected one week and non recyclable the next.
The last collection of compostable waste was 11th December 2007. The next scheduled was 22nd January when they failed to turn up. Again today, they have failed to turn up. They justify only one collection of waste per fortnight in that we now have two bins so should be generating half the waste.
But when they haven't collected it for 2 months you can guess it is now over flowing and stinking and the excess has had to go in the general waste which is now overflowing as well.
Our wonderful labour council subcontracted it to some cowboy outfit couldn't organise a bonk in a brothel, and the residents to live with the incompetents legacy
Set fire to it outside your house. Someone from the council will be there quite quickly. Quite possibly from the heath and safety department. But they will be from the council at least...
Dan
Practical solution = take it to the recycling facility. Yes I know that's what you pay for but it's better than having a pile of stinking garbage on your doorstep. And deduct £20 from the next instalment of council tax.
yorkie_chris
06-02-08, 02:20 AM
And deduct £20 from the next instalment of council tax.
And whats the chances of getting away with that?
For amusement value I'd go with dumping it on the steps of the town hall, however this could result in prosecutions, so I'd be inclined to pay some crackheads to do it for you.
gettin2dizzy
06-02-08, 07:16 AM
well if it's the whole street suffering I'd stop paying your council tax. That'll get their response quickly enough.
I'm shocked at the amount of refuse some small households generate.
Our house has 3 adults and a 12 yr old living in it. We have alternating weekly collections for household refuse and recycled rubbish. In 2 weeks our recycling bin is always pretty much full, but our household waste wheelie is never anywhere near it.
I'm shocked at the amount of refuse some small households generate.
Our house has 3 adults and a 12 yr old living in it. We have alternating weekly collections for household refuse and recycled rubbish. In 2 weeks our recycling bin is always pretty much full, but our household waste wheelie is never anywhere near it.
I was just thinking that - there is only me and my missus and our bins are emptied every week alternating between green and black - we only have the small style wheelie bins and they are rarely over half full when its time for the collection.
At least they get collected though - that really sucks Tim - prehaps send your local MP an email or something??
http://www.writetothem.com/
Ceri JC
06-02-08, 09:50 AM
Bi-weekly refuse collections are parsimony passed off as environmentalism IMO. Rubbish stinks to high heaven (not to mention it's vastly more likely to be crawling with maggots) after 2 weeks. My lots' system is fairly good; weekly rubbish collection and a seperate weekly collection of recyclables (alternating types each week). All this putting the different types of in different bags is nonsense though, perfectly workable systems exist to sort the recycling (from other recycling) once it has been collected. How many more people would be prepared to recycle/recycle more if there were just 2 bins they had to keep, one recycleable waste, the other non-recyclable waste and both were collected weekly? Once again, I feel it's this puritanical aspect of ecologists (as you have to feel like you're making some effort in for us to gain from recycling) rearing its ugly head preventing this.
rubberduckofdeath
06-02-08, 10:54 AM
I'm shocked at the amount of refuse some small households generate.
Our house has 3 adults and a 12 yr old living in it. We have alternating weekly collections for household refuse and recycled rubbish. In 2 weeks our recycling bin is always pretty much full, but our household waste wheelie is never anywhere near it.
I live in a house of 4 lads. We all eat mountains of food and hence generate a fair amount of waste. We also have the occasional (ah-hem), drink, which means our recycling bins tend to fill up quickly..
Tim, I thought we had it bad where I am... Sounds, rubbish... ;)
ArtyLady
06-02-08, 08:56 PM
This really annoys me too Tim, last week they didnt take our household rubbish wheelie bin because the top was open by 2 mm:confused:
if they collected it weekly then it wouldnt be so full and would close properly!
WTF do we pay ?1000 per annum for I wonder :rant:
timwilky
06-02-08, 09:20 PM
Well, they turned up today to take them. But most people had taken their bins back in last night.
When I phoned to complain, I got "Did you have it out for 7am", No it went out 7pm the night before. "Well they must have had a reason", what like they did when they failed to turn up 2 weeks ago. "Well we will pass it onto the collectors, it could take upto 48 hours before they are able to come back"
phil24_7
06-02-08, 11:57 PM
Our systems works well MOST of the time, weekly rubbish collections (bin never gets full, rarely even half full), bi-weekly recyclables (gets full most of the time and occasionally have to use the neighbours bins(with their permission)) and every other recyclable collection they take garden waste.
This works until they forget to come back for the recyclables after the main rubbish collection. This forces me to throw recyclable rubbish into the normal rubbish until they can be bothered to come back!
RingDing
07-02-08, 06:45 AM
South Gloucestershire make the two bin system work well. I've no complaints. They keep the public informed of how we are doing at hitting recycling targets and even ask for public opinion on how it could be improved. They are thinking of moving to a food waste collection as well and have asked for public input on that.
In the examples in this thread of it all going wrong it is not the concept of the two bin system that is at fault, IMO, but the execution of it.
It is in our interest to recycle as the council, quite rightly, has targets to meet in reducing landfill. If they don't meet them they will get fined and they will increase council tax to fund the fine.
It is quite right to be cross about not getting the service from your council, or their sub-contractors though!
blue curvy jester
07-02-08, 11:16 AM
It's not the councils fault necessarily that they use crap operators
They have been told they have to sub out all services like this and what happens is they then look at the bids and the prices (they don't always just go for the cheapest)
What happens then is monkeys like violea come along and take over the contract cut the level of service and increase the profit margin then wait until the review peiod comes along and the complaints have rolled in and then promise to do better on the same money and get an extension
Bluepete
07-02-08, 11:19 AM
Frickin' idiots (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1035469_bin_crew_caught_out)
We have recycling round here, compostable& recyclable is collected one week and non recyclable the next.
The last collection of compostable waste was 11th December 2007. The next scheduled was 22nd January when they failed to turn up. Again today, they have failed to turn up. They justify only one collection of waste per fortnight in that we now have two bins so should be generating half the waste.
But when they haven't collected it for 2 months you can guess it is now over flowing and stinking and the excess has had to go in the general waste which is now overflowing as well.
Our wonderful labour council subcontracted it to some cowboy outfit couldn't organise a bonk in a brothel, and the residents to live with the incompetents legacy
Not quite as bad Tim, but i hear what you are saying. Vern and I moved in August last year, and we are now in the Borough of Bromley. Thier refuse is outsourced to Veiola(or something like that).
We have a weekly rubbish collection and a bi-weekly recylcing collection. Now, where we live we have a reisdentil parking bit round the back of the house, and afaik, thats where the stuff should be left. But since we have moved in, we have weeks where the normal bin wasnt taken, then weeks where the re-cycling wasnt taken, or only one of the boxes, ah and to top it all, we had to Steal erm...buy our own bin! Thier council tax is £22 a year more than lewisham (Previous borough i lived) and they supplied 2 full sized wheelie bins. One for rubbish, one for all reclyclable materials.
We have complained about 10 times to Bromely, and nothing changes. Damn outsourcing!!
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