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BFA
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 02 May 2010 : 23:04:51
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It's rubbish collection day tomorrow in my part of the village and as usual a couple of neighbours have put their rubbish out midday today, which is fine if it's in a dustbin, preferably with a lid. But it's not - it's just a bag or two.
In tne morning I know I'll see rubbish from those bags strewn all over the place by cats, rats, parish councillors, foxes, seagulls and other vermin - some weeks you don't have to wait until morning either.
Do these people use a dustbin somewhere outside their homes or store it all in those bags inside their homes for a week? We have a bin with a lid and each week we put the bin out, it's not difficult.
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compost
Advanced Member
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Posted - 03 May 2010 : 07:57:59
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Shoot the vermin !!!!!!!(Save the wildlife)
BFA - I use black bags, but put them out in the morning - to avoid the issue you describe - I had noticed that in the colder weather some neighbours bags had frozen to the floor and when the dustmen picked them up, all they got was a handful of bag (sounds painful).
I do feel that the wheelie bins are small for a family (fortnightly collections) for the recycle stuff, encouraged to do it then penalised on the size of bin????
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burlington bertie
Average Member
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Posted - 03 May 2010 : 09:27:20
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| Re the recycling bins, i work in this industry and find that most households dont crush boxes and packaging, also it would help if they put plastic milk/fizzy pop bottles in the bins without the lids on and maybe crush the bottles using that high tech gadget (your foot) which would make more room in the bins, its my understanding that if you have extra recycling then place it loose in a box next to your bin and it will be collected (dont quote me on that though, check out the councils website for clarification) |
Questi rifiuti di firme ma ha un bell'aspetto all'occhio non qualificato. |
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Bert
Advanced Member
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Posted - 03 May 2010 : 12:19:33
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BFA, this would annoy me a great deal. It is totally irresponsible. Do your neighbours not appreciate it is their rubbish strewn down your road?
I assume from your posting that you know who the offending neighbours are. If they are oblivious to the problem they are causing, I would explain it to them in a neighbourly manner.
If you feel uncomfortable doing that, I would type a brief, polite note, put it through their letterbox late on a Sunday night, explaining the mess it can cause, and ask them to place a bin out or put the bag out on the Monday morning. Leave the note unsigned if you think it would cause a problem.
Ps. I appreciate cats, rats, seagulls etc. will break open a bag and cause the problem, but "Parish Councillors." ????
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MrT
Average Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 May 2010 : 17:13:58
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We keep the black bags inside the bin all week but I do put the bags out the night before, usually 10pm or something. I can't guarantee I will be up early enough to put the bags out on the morning of collection.
Lots of cats round here (one of which is ours) but we've never had a bag torn open. This is a vegetarian house so there's no chicken bones or fish heads or anything a cat might like, maybe that's why the bags survive?
Don't get me started on the wheely bin recycling stuff. Placebo Recycling, I call it, it makes you feel better but has no measurable effect. We used to live in Surrey and we had to put the recycling out separately - bottles in this bin, plastic in that one, paper in the other one. I could believe that it actually got recycled. However, the wheely bins here full of mixed recyclables - who gets to sort it? I suspect it's all sent in containers to India or somewhere, and 10 year old kids pick over it :-(
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burlington bertie
Average Member
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Posted - 03 May 2010 : 20:01:56
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Actually Mr T its sent to Ford where there is a materials recovery facility just been opened. the reason all your recyclables are collected together is because that plant has machinery that sorts and filters so you dont have too, you only have to look on West Sussex County Councils web site and it tells you all this???
I can assure you being in that business all of it is recycled as it costs a fortune to send it to landfill? |
Questi rifiuti di firme ma ha un bell'aspetto all'occhio non qualificato. |
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BOTFOJ
Senior Member
Kyrgyzstan
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Posted - 06 May 2010 : 13:38:30
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I have noticed lately that in spite of having a wheely bin, if there are any loose items in the bin they get left in there by the binmen, who just take out the bin bags, and you have to dive in and ferret them out which is not ideal. They are not using the bins for the purpose they were designed for, ie tipping straight into the back of the truck, instead they are just an over elaborate receptacle for bin bags.
I am sure theres a boring H&S excuse for doing it this way
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Rob
Average Member
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Posted - 06 May 2010 : 14:00:39
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| i think using bins outside is nasty, it looks nasty and can cause harm, a child could open it up, or a animal couild get into it, theres no reason not to put them in the wheel bins, it keeps the smell away and within the wheel bins, |
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