Getting really P'off with my council, not collecting rubbish

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by timwilky

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.

Originally Posted by timwilky

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]

Originally Posted by Ed

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Lozzo

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/

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.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

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...

This really annoys me too Tim, last week they didnt take our household rubbish wheelie bin because the top was open by 2 mm

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