It's All A Load Of Rubbish.
I was asked the other day whether I recycle or not. The answer, NO. This is mainly because the council have introduced a new system of rubbish collection which includes two boxes for recycled waste which they will take away. This you may think is a very good idea and you'd be right, except for the fact that they didn't give us these boxes, and we've asked for them and they STILL haven't brought us any, and told us they will. We're now waiting.
The rubbish collections across this county have proved somewhat controversial lately. They've started this fortnightly collection which runs in conjunction with the recycling, the idea being that if you recycle correctly you won't have as much rubbish to throw out. So, they allow everyone a wheelie bin full and the afore mentioned boxes. Again, a really good idea. Now for the best bit - any bin that is found to be overflowing could cause a £50 fine and this is the bit that is causing all the problems - this bin is the same size for all families, and obviously the two of us don't fill a bin in two weeks whereas our neighbours (a family of what seems like eight million) could fill three in the same space of time. Now, up and down the street bin day is like a chess game. Particularly since we've all had warning labels fixed to our bins week in week out. Now it becomes a race to get the bins back in the respective yards before anyone gets the chance to put their surplus bags in or worse still steal it! We became the victims of this when we accidentally left our bin out only to find it full two days after collection.
The fine associated with this also troubles me, how on earth in this situation are they going to enforce this? Are they going to get us all together and start pulling bits of rubbish out and then starting asking "Who bought and used this pint of milk?" whilst we all shrug and look at each other sheepishly? I think not.
The rubbish collections across this county have proved somewhat controversial lately. They've started this fortnightly collection which runs in conjunction with the recycling, the idea being that if you recycle correctly you won't have as much rubbish to throw out. So, they allow everyone a wheelie bin full and the afore mentioned boxes. Again, a really good idea. Now for the best bit - any bin that is found to be overflowing could cause a £50 fine and this is the bit that is causing all the problems - this bin is the same size for all families, and obviously the two of us don't fill a bin in two weeks whereas our neighbours (a family of what seems like eight million) could fill three in the same space of time. Now, up and down the street bin day is like a chess game. Particularly since we've all had warning labels fixed to our bins week in week out. Now it becomes a race to get the bins back in the respective yards before anyone gets the chance to put their surplus bags in or worse still steal it! We became the victims of this when we accidentally left our bin out only to find it full two days after collection.
The fine associated with this also troubles me, how on earth in this situation are they going to enforce this? Are they going to get us all together and start pulling bits of rubbish out and then starting asking "Who bought and used this pint of milk?" whilst we all shrug and look at each other sheepishly? I think not.
posted by G | Monday, March 13, 2006
3 Comments:
We get to choose between different bin sizes and bi-weekly or monthly collection of domestic waste.The more waste you have, the more expensive it gets. of cause. You can get a serious fine if you sort the waste wrong (like putting a plastic bag in the organic waste bin). They don’t care who did what and just fine the owner of the house.
northerners...
*tuts*
We have to buy stickers for the bin or for separate bags of rubbish. The bin men won't take anything without a sticker.
It seems to work reasonably well, but it must cost quite a lot for large families.
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