Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Taipan]

Except it isn't! I have been recycling successfully for years. But they've taken a working scheme ...

Did your previous (for years) working roadside collection scheme include food and garden waste being collected then composted?

Yes, but it was combined. So you tipped your food caddy into the big green bin. I think you still can or they collect it seperately. Since they started charging £25 a year, we're seeing a lot of garden rubbish dumped now. Or if you're like my neighbor, you put it in my bin instead of paying for your own!

[gremlin]

So we are capped at oen bin full. Fuck knows what the streets will look like after Xmas!

You could stop being so wasteful and consider what you buy / throw away.

Considering what appears to be hoarded in Taipan's loft, I think it could be an awful lot worse.

[KungFooBob]

Is this the show us your bins thread?

[Mr. Dazzle]

House number snap!

[KungFooBob]

House number snap!

They've faded a bit, but they were rainbow stickers, after the wife stuck them one while I was out I had to explain that all our neighbours would now think we were gay.

[gremlin]

Is this the show us your bins thread?

I'll have to ask the staff where they keep them on the estate. If it's past the trout lake, I can't be arsed.

[Mr. Dazzle]

House number snap!

They've faded a bit, but they were rainbow stickers, after the wife stuck them one while I was out I had to explain that all our neighbours would now think we were gay.

I was referring to the 14 actually, not the choice of label form Wilkos/B&M/The Range.

[gremlin]

House number snap!

They've faded a bit, but they were rainbow stickers, after the wife stuck them one while I was out I had to explain that all our neighbours would now think we were gay.

Sounds like a conversation in our house.

'Know that man and wife couple two doors down?'
'The married couple? Nice bloke and his missus?'
'They're gay. Must be. Rainbow stickers on the bins...'

[Mr. Dazzle]

It's all ground worked being laid so they're spared in coming trans revolution.

[Taipan]

So we are capped at oen bin full. Fuck knows what the streets will look like after Xmas!

You could stop being so wasteful and consider what you buy / throw away.

I buy what I need and recycle what I can. A lot of stuff like furniture has to be delivered and a lot of it requires some self assembly, so you have packing to recycle. Except when its polystyrene. Surprised they still use that crap tbh.

[Yorick]

In the towns folk have to take their rubbish and recycling to their local drop off place. Dozens of them so never more than 2/3 minutes walk.
We take our recycling to a recycling place about half way into town.
But our rubbish bins are emptied every day

[DefTrap]

It's all about education.

You can have as many bins as you like, some people are just wankers. Every bin collection day, without fail, one of my neighbours will do something they know they shouldn't. (We all have to take our bins down to the end of the road by the way, as it's a private road)
Either:

• overfill the bin such that the lid is up (you might get away with about 20degrees - further than that? Nope!

• leave something clearly visible in the bin that shouldn't be there

• just randomly leave stray bin bags or carrier bags of rubbish next to the collection bins, hopefully

So obviously the errant bins / piles / things aren't collected. The reaction is always the same "I'll just leave it there, it's not outside my house anyway, the binmen will probably capitulate first. Or maybe that English bloke will lose his rag and furiously shovel your catfood tins and fagends into his own bin while muttering swear words". Yeah, sometimes it stays there for weeks.

A new neighbour moved in last week. She immediately overfilled her bin, the binmen wouldn't take it so now she has nowhere to put all her rubbish. Oh yeah she does though, she just opens her front door and kicks it out into the street. Fat-ankled lazy cow.

[Taipan]

When my mate first moved to Spain he couldn't get over the low council tax charge and what you got for it. They made a few changes in the place and he asked his neighbours how he could dispose of some old furniture etc. They said just put it by the big bins at the end of the street. He did and it was collected. We have to pay a fee; £30 for the collection of 1-5 items, £50 for the collection of 6-10 items. Not too bad i suppose but I'd rather it was free obvs.

When we had some building work done recently, i was surprised at how much skips cost, but then, where there's muck, there's brass, as those Yorick types would say!

[Mr. Dazzle]

These things happen, things change and a bit of catching up is required, but I get tired of the usual apathy and excuses being trotted out alongside the usual pessimistic attitude that they're doing their best and nothing much can be done to improve things.

I don't mean to have a go at boomers* but even in this thread I'm sensing a cultural/attitude difference.

To me (and Mrs. D, if I may speak for her) it would seem crazy to expect the bin men to take stuff that's not in the bin. It also strikes me as perfectly reasonable that my council tax would only stretch so far in this regard. If I get a load of packaging of course it's my job to take it somewhere for disposal etc. That's just how the world operates in my mind.

Mostly, I suspect, and indeed as I said earlier, because it's always been that way for me as an adult. I don't think it'd be fair to claim my attitude is a result of much else

But yeah - just piling stuff up and expecting someone/thing else to deal with it for not-much-money is causing a few issues in the world right?

*Lies, they're all cunts!

[Taipan]

These things happen, things change and a bit of catching up is required, but I get tired of the usual apathy and excuses being trotted out alongside the usual pessimistic attitude that they're doing their best and nothing much can be done to improve things.

I don't mean to have a go at boomers* but even in this thread I'm sensing a cultural/attitude difference.

To me (and Mrs. D, if I may speak for her) it would seem crazy to expect the bin men to take stuff that's not in the bin. It also strikes me as perfectly reasonable that my council tax would only stretch so far in this regard. If I get a load of packaging of course it's my job to take it somewhere for disposal etc. That's just how the world operates in my mind.

Mostly, I suspect, and indeed as I said earlier, because it's always been that way for me as an adult. I don't think it'd be fair to claim my attitude is a result of much else

But yeah - just piling stuff up and expecting someone/thing else to deal with it for not-much-money is causing a few issues in the world right?

*Lies, they're all cunts!

I'd take a guess that picking up rubbish will feature in the job description soemwhere...

[Mr. Dazzle]

Picking up a bit of rubbish

[cheb]

House number snap!

They've faded a bit, but they were rainbow stickers, after the wife stuck them one while I was out I had to explain that all our neighbours would now think we were gay.

I was referring to the 14 actually, not the choice of label form Wilkos/B&M/The Range.

Hardly a surprise the numbers match, all the bins are for the same house.

Up here in CNES land we have one bin for residuals that collected every two weeks, one for paper and card, collected monthly and one one plastics/tins that's also collected monthly. I rarely put the bins out, every couple of months for the residuals and less for the other two, they only go out when full. The binpeople are on job and knock, anything I can do to let them get home quicker if fine by me. They are directly employed by the council AFAIK.

Be nice to them, it's a shite job in the winter and the average punter treats them like subhumans. I mean how dare they do stop start driving all the way down my street when I've left late for work, they could at least have the decency to let me past.

I usually blind the tip lads with biscuits when I go there to check the skips.

[Count Steer]

The thing I miss are the recycle bins in the local car park. It was great for getting rid of cardboard packaging without filling the recycling bin or having to go to the 'dump'. Of course it was roundly abused and sometimes you'd look and businesses and trades had crammed it full. The crap people tried to stuff in the 'small electricals' bin was pretty too.

However, our binnies are cool if you leave the cardboard stuff next to the bin (but in such a way it doesn't blow away obvs).

I was parking up in the local car park and the litter bin guy pitched up to empty the bin by the ticket machine. He hauled a rattling bag of stuff out and said 'the local alcoholic is at it again'. He was a bit upset because, as he explained to me, everything in them automatically goes to landfill (they're not the double bin things). He really did seem to care that easily recycled stuff was going to landfill.

So, no complaints here. If people start to understand there's a cost to dealing with waste, fine by me.

PS If my neighbour has space in her garden bin she asks if we've got any that we'd like to put in it. Which we have done but now pay for a second bin, which she's welcome to put stuff in if we haven't filled 'em.

[MrLongbeard]

We've got one wheelie bin for rubbish and one for recycling, collected alternate weeks, a house of three adults struggles to fill either of them in a fortnight, well unless I've been on an Amazon binge.

Local tip is for local folk, open 3 days a week, no booking, no queuing, will accept anything and turn a blind eye to commercial stuff (florescent tubes, fridge compressors etc.)

Our binnies even work on bank holidays.

[gremlin]

My local tip always asks for proof of address and what you're dumping. My stock reply is usually along the lines of, 'Couple of dead badgers, some nuclear waste and a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio'.

I'd say the majority of the time nothing is ever said, so I can only assume they've stopped listening to what people are telling them or that they've sensibly decided to ignore my failed attempts at humour.