Wheeelie bins, wheelie good??

[dizzyblonde]

ERRRRRRRRR nope.
So the dreaded two weekly pick began its arrival today with the truck load of wheelie bins plonked out on the street. It was like wheelie clone wars. Plonked there outside every house, with a nice little midget brown bin next to them. Half the street arriving home to them and falling in the door as they fall over them, in the tiny space they have to manoevre round them.

I don't have anything against recycling. I have been using our green bag for paper and card for years. The grey box I had for glass blew away empty two years ago down the street, in a storm, never to be seen again. A couple of phone calls to the council requesting a replacement, has never brought one back. So now I fill plastic bags with glass bottles and jars instead.....and they never think to give me one off the van for keeping up the effort.

I have a pretty small house, the couple of orgers that have been can back me up on that one. I have a tiny kitchen, no space for storage, and now I have to seperate everything. Right now I have the green bag overflowing stood behind the door in the bathroom(its downstairs) I've got a mllion glass bottles(yes I am a wino) waitng like a bunch of skittles on my worktops for Mr 'evil' Tibbs(the kitten) to come and push over, much to his delight. Now I have to place a little brown bin somewhere for scraps, I've yet to get the white bag for all the plastic cartons etc. I have my very own recycling plant going on in my little tiny house. Thats what the real idea is, to keep the rubbish tip at home!
Well at least theres one thing after my effort to seperate everything, remembering not to throw the cat out with it, is that the mahooooosive wheelie bin thats now plonked by the gate in the back garden, is that it won't be as heavy once a fortnight, to wheel round through three gardens, avoiding all other wheelie bins and out to the road in front of my house.
Its much better to wheel the SV out that way than man handling that damn bin! Ahh well I'm waiting for the next instalment of the chav olympics 'how long can you ride a wheelie bin on the back of a moped', it has been done here before, but now they have an entire street littered with them to choose from!

And thats all before I can make head or tail of the new collection days. week A for brown bin, glass box and white bag, week B for wheelie bin, green bag, brown bin and plastic bag of textiles

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH why can't they have just left it all alone!!!!!!

The one thing that really farks me off with it all now, is that the bin men will only walk to the kerb to collect the bins and leave them there. Or in our case, at the end of the front garden, right across the path.

It's not as if they need to carry them anywhere, is it? They've got farking wheels. And it can't add much to their day to wheel them all back.

Another sloppy service provided by the UK's councils.

[dizzyblonde]

well, Im Indoors' parents have a flat drive to the main road. Greatyou may think, an easy job. Nah....the bin men collect round the back. The back door is at the bottom of two extremely steep flights of steps. So now its not an option to have the bin by the back door. Its left at the top of the steps. Thats not going to be a great help to the 85 yr old lady who lives on her own next door!

[embee]

2 things wizz me off about it

1 - why the **** does every single council have to re-invent the whole ******* system and have different coloured bins/boxes/bags for all the different stuff? Why can't there be a standard system FFS?

2 - you are required to leave the bin out for collection "on your curtilage" i.e. on your property, then the collectors just leave the bins on the footway and if you don't get them back in pretty pronto the council will try to prosecute you (I'd love to see them try )

Gah, that sounds a right pain. Here we just bung all plastic bottles/cans/cardboard etc in one transparent bag and they pick up fortnightly, much easier. I think they kinda figured students weren't going to be bothered separating everything so they made it easy for us lol.

Can you not stick boxes (with rocks on top) outside in the garden and just take stuff out when necessary? Tis a pain but would prevent your titchy kitchen getting cluttered and keep stuff away from the mischief makers in your house (yep I'm on about Matt )

[dizzyblonde]

oh we have to have them on the curbside by 7am. And don't forget the lid has to be closed, and no extra bags will be collected.

I said to the council bloke, why can't they do what they have in Tonnay Boutonne.....tonny buttie???
Its in France mate, they have fortnightly collections, but all the paper and plastic go in one bin, and the glass goes in the other (or in the collection point down the road)
EASY!! They still have a black bin of sorts I think.....but all the scraps go to the chickens

[fizzwheel]

I dont mind the recycling, but they dont take everything in the recycling bin. i.e. they wont take carboard or plastic so that either goes in the general waste bin or to the local recycling centre which means driving it there, which in my mind negates any positive effect recycling has. Also I'm paying the council to take my waste away with the council tax payments I make and I find it frustrating that they expect me to spend money on diesel and drive it to the tip myself as they wont take carboard or plastic.

Its the two fricken week bin emptying, we can if we try hard fill the wheelie bin in a week, and thats just me and Liz, must be a nightmare if you have kids etc etc. Our wheelie bin lives out on the pavement outside our house as does everybody elses, theres no where to put it around the back of our house without struggling to get it past next doors van.

You have a plastic recycling collection? I wish... I have to take all the plastic bottles to the recycling facility every week to stop them blowing across the street. Like Fizz says, it's a right nuisance and what about the diesel emissions.

[yorkie_chris]

The company who've taken over in halifax/calderdale seem like a right bunch of kn0bbers.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

The company who've taken over in halifax/calderdale seem like a right bunch of kn0bbers.

what i want to know is....are you going to fit some sort of supercharged engine to yours to get it up your drive

or even a cable car arrangement