wheelie bins - Page 2

park381 · 01-03-2005, 21:27

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Originally Posted by THOTH

They are recorded with a hand held device. Happened to see it done last week when ours was delivered. Anyone know the name of those gizmos ? Seem to be the same that are used in some car parks.

Yep, just the same, bar code readers, same as the ones used in asda or any other store, I can understand them using a reader when delivering the wheelies to log which wheelie goes where, but I'cant understand them as standard issue to the actual troops on the ground, or refuse collectors(please correct me if there is a more upmarket phrase, cause I would not want to offend anyone), think they may finish up inside the crusher.

lindsay ormerod · 01-03-2005, 21:38

They scan barcodes on the blue tubs to see if your household is participating in the recycling scheme.You get points for recycling your rubbish and can pledge the points to a local school,the kids at the participating schools sign you up and your rubbish earns the points. Peel Park are currently way ahead on 16123 points whilst Mount Pleasant are 2nd on 9560.The schools involved have allegedly earned enough points for £20,000 of equipment.

Scarily,really big schools like Moorhead [2337] and Rhyddings [2208] don't seem to have grasped the point of the scheme.
I think it's a great achievement for the kids at Peel Park to be so far ahead and winning the equipment for their school. {Although in an ideal world they wouldn't need to do this as it would all be govt. funded!**

WillowTheWhisp · 01-03-2005, 22:45

The problem Moorhead etc have is that younger siblings have already got their parents/neighbours/aunts and uncles to pledge for the junior schools and of course they can't pledge for more than one school.

I've got a barcode sticker on my wheelie bin. Do you mean they are also embedded in the material? I thought it was just on the sticker. A theif could easily rip the stickers off.

park381 · 01-03-2005, 22:52

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

The problem Moorhead etc have is that younger siblings have already got their parents/neighbours/aunts and uncles to pledge for the junior schools and of course they can't pledge for more than one school.

I've got a barcode sticker on my wheelie bin. Do you mean they are also embedded in the material? I thought it was just on the sticker. A theif could easily rip the stickers off.

Still don't think our HBC collectors scan each wheelie or blue box on collection day, but I will watch them on our next collection day

WillowTheWhisp · 01-03-2005, 22:58

Tomorrow is recycle day for us so I'll be peeping out from behind my curtains.

slinky · 01-03-2005, 23:00

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Originally Posted by park381

Still don't think our HBC collectors scan each wheelie or blue box on collection day, but I will watch them on our next collection day

tHEY CAN'T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO PICK FALLING RUBBISH UP SO HOW THE HELL ARE THEY TO BARCODE THINGS (their backs won't bend that far to do it)

WillowTheWhisp · 01-03-2005, 23:05

Good point Slinky. Last week's wheelie bin rubbish is still wandering up and down Willows Lane. I suppose I could ring the council about it yet again but I'm slowly losing the will to live when it comes to dropped rubbish. And the way they go on in ads about how close rats are! Is it any wonder?

slinky · 01-03-2005, 23:28

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Good point Slinky. Last week's wheelie bin rubbish is still wandering up and down Willows Lane. I suppose I could ring the council about it yet again but I'm slowly losing the will to live when it comes to dropped rubbish. And the way they go on in ads about how close rats are! Is it any wonder?

Yep!! totally agree willow, I live very near willows lane, and if you remember me saying on friday I watched the bin men (more interested in throwing bloody snowballs at each other) I am sorry but That is not what I pay council tax for.................lazy bone Idol gits want to get a job bending banana's in ASDA if they can't handle a PROPER MANS JOB!!

fibi · 02-03-2005, 08:33

Why would anyone want to steal a wheelie bin?

WillowTheWhisp · 02-03-2005, 08:39

OK here is your up-to-date on-the-spot report from your local refuse collection observer.

The bin men themselves do not carry any bar code reading devices. The blue boxes have a small disc under the rim (about the size of a 10p) and when the box is tipped into the wagon the wagon itself "reads" information encoded into that disc. So if your box got switched withe someone else's the "muck truck" would think it was emptying their box when it was actually emptying yours (or at least the one it picks up from outside your house)

I am assured that the bin men are very careful to put the boxes back where they get them from.

This is how the schools pledges are recorded.

I haven't ventured out the back yet to investigate the rim of my wheelie bin but I'm presuming there is something similar on there. Isn't modern technology wonderful?

Dean · 02-03-2005, 08:51

well these wheelie bin are a bit of a nusance there massive and we only have a small back yard

on collection day we have to trole the bin's all the way around the block. it's not on

and wat are HBC going to do for the disabled of elderly who can't take there wheelie bin's to the front of the house every collection day?

WillowTheWhisp · 02-03-2005, 09:06

I know what you mean Dean. I have a very tiny yard (more of an L-shaped path) and most of it is occupied by my wheelie bin and recycling box/bags. My wheelie bin just goes out the back so that's fairly easy but my recycling stuff is collected from the front and I refuse to have mucky bags and box trailed through the house so they have to be carted round from the back to the front. OK, they are smaller than a wheelie bin but not having wheels the box is more difficult to negotiate so I get the kids to carry it round between them. There is no way I am leaving it at the front of the house all the time because it looks untidy and it has more chance of being nicked. There isn't enough room in the vestibule and there is NO WAY the thing is living in the house as Hyndborg BC suggested as it's filthy when it's been sitting out there awaiting collection in all weathers.

Across the other side of Willows Lane some people have orange sacks instead of the wheelie bin because the bin wagon can't get down their back and presumably they can't get a bin from back to front or down the front steps (some do get it up and down the steps and leave it at the front door which I don't think does much to enhance the appearance of the neighbourhood). Presumably the ones who can't manange to get it up and down the steps are allowed to use the orange sacks (official HBC orange sacks)

When these houses were built they weren't built for wheelie bins. (Nasty, nasty invention the wheelie bin.

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lindsay ormerod · 02-03-2005, 10:24

On the plus side cats can't get in 'em and chuck the rubbish everywhere,on the down side they are cumbersome and ugly!Then again I don't suppose they are meant to be easy on the eye!

WillowTheWhisp · 02-03-2005, 10:26

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

On the plus side cats can't get in 'em and chuck the rubbish everywhere,

lol, no the bin men have to do that for em these days!

rockrabbit · 02-03-2005, 10:53

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Originally Posted by fibi

Why would anyone want to steal a wheelie bin?

So they have two as lets face it the amount of rubbish a family will make in a week wont fit in one wheelie bin then the coucil threaten fines for bin bags not in the bins