wheelie bins

[park381]

Originally Posted by lettie

My wheelie bin has not yet been a problem, although my back yard step is a bit high and the bin has gotten away from me a couple of times when I have been getting the bin out of my yard. Luckily my neighbour survived the accident.. My problem at the moment is my blue bag. I put my plastics out last week with all the other re-cyclables and never got the blue bag back. I have now got my plastics in a carrier bag. I will be leaving them out next thursday with a note demanding the return of my blue bag.

Yep, have the same problem with wheelie, 3 large steps to get down to floor level
HeHe, must not have the bar code on blue bags. We seem to get more than one back, have several in the wash-house.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by chav1

i find it insulting that we are faced with fines for not recycling properly and allegedly harming the enviroment

I find it insulting that the council which threatens us with £1,000 fines can't clean up after itself. Most of the litter in this town is created by bin men when they drop bags. If you ring the council to complain it takes days before they send somebody to look by which time the rubbish has spread out over a far wider area.

I refuse to gather it all up and have it in my wheelie bin because that won't leave enough room for my rubbish! Then they'll fine me for having too much!

[chav1]

i emailed a pictire of my street to greg pope after the bin men had been

not the back alley but actualy my front street

he couldnt believe the mess there were milk cartons , nappies , broken glass and rotting food

the next day the council cleaned it up but only after i threatened to send the pic to teh newspaper and a kick up the ass from gregg pope

what the hell are the binmen doing with our trash that makes it appear on the front of our houses ...?

[WillowTheWhisp]

I wish I knew. They tell me it can't fall out of the truck but I've seen it! I have photographs and I think I might take a leaf out of your book and send mine to Greg Pope too. I was thinking of sending them up to the Observer.

[chav1]

there is a guy at the observer who realy has it in for the wheelie bins jsut ask for the guy who does wheelie bin storys

he will listen to you and probably use your pics

[park381]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I find it insulting that the council which threatens us with £1,000 fines can't clean up after itself. Most of the litter in this town is created by bin men when they drop bags.

Our wheelies are every other Tues. and are emptied from the corner of the back street. On a Wed. following the wheelie empty, we have a gizmo drive down the back street (one of those motorised street cleaning machines) cleaning up after the wheelie empty, is that not doing the same job twice.
What I can't understand though is, we were instructed to have our wheelies at the corner of the back street by 7.30AM on the day of collection.............but they don't land to empty them whilst lunch time or just after. Has someone got the "time & motion study" wrong, or are the operatives spending to long in the cafe

[chav1]

i cant wait until nov 5th

every year i have a bomfire on my back alley and god help and wheelie bin thats left unguarded

if its flamable it burns , its as simple as that i like fire way too much and a strong hatred of wheelie bins

anyone got a match please

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by park381

Our wheelies are every other Tues. and are emptied from the corner of the back street. On a Wed. following the wheelie empty, we have a gizmo drive down the back street (one of those motorised street cleaning machines) cleaning up after the wheelie empty, is that not doing the same job twice.

At least you have something cleaning up the mess where you live. The mess is just left to its own devices here even when I phone them up. I'm thoroughly fed up with it. It does make you wonder why on earth they can't just do the job properly in the first place.

[Dean]

Originally Posted by rockrabbit

the lad who was sat next to me in the hope last saturday is a bin man

see my point

[Dean]

Originally Posted by chav1

i cant wait until nov 5th

every year i have a bomfire on my back alley and god help and wheelie bin thats left unguarded

if its flamable it burns , its as simple as that i like fire way too much and a strong hatred of wheelie bins

anyone got a match please

here you go chav1

[park381]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

At least you have something cleaning up the mess where you live. The mess is just left to its own devices here even when I phone them up. I'm thoroughly fed up with it. It does make you wonder why on earth they can't just do the job properly in the first place.

Yeah thats true, but I just thought it happened where ever after a wheelie day, as you said if the collectors took a little more care there would not be any rubbish. Do the normal street cleaners with the hand carts not come round, or is that just for the town centre!

[chav1]

the councils favourite excuse for not cleaning up after the mess left behind is that the little mini road sweeper as i call it can not get up the pavements becasuse cars are parked half on the road and half on the pavement

if the cars are illigaly parked then the person driving the mini road sweeper shoud ring the traffic warden to give them a ticket

i know hundreds of people park their cars half on the pavement and half on the road but if yo want your pavements clean then allow the council to do their job and park on the road

maybe if the council set a day for the road sweeper to come people could park their cars propper on that particular day and let the mini road sweeper up the pavement

omg i just stuck up for HBC someone whip me

PLEEEEASE

[Acrylic-bob]

Consider your self flogged to within an inch of your life. I don't want to hear any more of this HBC are really nice people nonsense. They are all spawn of the devil and idle with it!

[WillowTheWhisp]

No cars parked on the pavement here. No man with little truck either. Occasionally the mini sweeping vehicle but not on a regular basis. The only thing we do get on a regular basis is rubbish!

[chav1]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

No cars parked on the pavement here. No man with little truck either. Occasionally the mini sweeping vehicle but not on a regular basis. The only thing we do get on a regular basis is rubbish!

I agree but what i was trying to say is that when you eventualy get a road sweeper to turn up they cant get up and along the pavement because cars are parked on them so the seeper cant fit between the cars and the houses

they shuld scrap the mini road sweepers and get a much cheaper fleet of people pushing a cart and brush

its worked for years so why stop