Well, my refuge collection is due tomorrow (normally the black bin) but this week they are only emptying the blue bin, the blue bag (paper) and the green bin (all of which are full of recyclable things). My black bin is also full, but seeing as its not emptied weekly now, looks like i'm going to have to have a few trips to the tip :rant:

would the council understand if i decided to cancel alternate council tax direct debit?
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Quite agree, PinkLady....
We've had this "voluntary" system in Dronfield for over a year now....Black bin one week, green bin the next, with the blue bag/box a couple of days after the green bin....
Need a bleedin' timetable pinned up in the kitchen!
Needless to say, cocked it up a few times - but just think of the result!
Yup, right again - make a mistake putting wrong colour out, and you wait 4 WEEKS for your turn to roll around again!
Not good in hot weather!
Add to that the rules and regs that are STRICTLY applied....
No extra bags alongside bin....
Bin lid MUST be closed - an inch open, it's left...
Wrong type of rubbish in - it's left....
Blue bag - newspapers only...envelopes accepted, but not with plastic "windows"...obviously.
Blue box - tins and unbroken bottles. Tins must be squashed and lids removed...if not - yes, you're ahead of me - it's left....
Had a row with Cutts lorry driver a few weeks ago - he refused to take the blue box because I'd put paper in that rather than the bag. (By the same token, I'd put tins in the bag - a hanging offence, apparently.
So this row ensued, where he insisted that all three types of rubbish must be separated...
3 types into 2 recepticles...but all kept separate....Hmmmmmm...
What a farce...

The council are a disgrace, as is our 'Council Tax'.

Money thrown away.

We should have a revolution!!!!:headbang:

storm the town hall with our wheelie bins in tow! :evil:

whos with me? :banana:
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I'd bring my wheelie bin for the protest but I don't think they'd let me bring it on the tram :P

It's the same starting here too, outside Sheffield.....a sort of slow waltz of robots working to the music transmitted to our brain receptors......you really could not make it up.

I AM A ROBOT......I AM A ROBOT.......I AM A ROBOT. :mad:

We're having wheelie bins introduced next month and luckily are staying on a weekly collection but with a half size bin as we're classed as 'inner city'. That would be fine for us, but I don't see how it's going to work for the student houses round the corner with 6 occupants! However, I'm having enormous trouble persuading them that we don't actually have an external access route to take our bins around from the back yard, and our house is on the pavement so we can't store them out the front. They really, really do not want to allow us to stay on bagged collections, and insist they must make a home visit but keep failing to turn up :loopy:

I take it your council tax rates haven't reduced?

Pinklady.. I'm not far from you, I'm in Kimberworth and today, it should have been our black and green bin day. But for some reason, they only emptied our black bin..

We did have a leaflet through our door a few weeks ago telling us that it would soon be the case that they would get emptied once a fortnight, but it didn't say from when..So me and all my neighbours put out both our bins as usual, and we've all had to fetch back the green bin full !!

Have you had your letter telling you the new dates for the bins ??

Sounds like the lunatics are in charge of the asylum :suspect:

How do you get a green bin ?

Just whats up with this damned council,we can't do this we musn't do that,don't let the lid be open, turn the handle outwards,if the binmen aren't careful they'll be out of jobs because we are doing it for them, the council are treating their customers like naughty children, have they forgotten we pay for this service, and we also pay the wages for all those who dream up these hair brained schemes,all we need now is to learn to press the button and the binmen don't need to be there at all.Also why is it our council? Where my son lives they will take anything, bags, boxes, plus the bin itself of course and they even say good morning, what with the bins and the state of our roads,where is all the council tax going? We certainly shouldn't need to have to take rubbish to the tip, and not all of us can,but perhaps a few hundred black bags on the town hall steps will inform them that we've fed up with the way they treat us.

Just whats up with this damned council,we can't do this we musn't do that,don't let the lid be open, turn the handle outwards,if the binmen aren't careful they'll be out of jobs because we are doing it for them, the council are treating their customers like naughty children, have they forgotten we pay for this service, and we also pay the wages for all those who dream up these hair brained schemes,all we need now is to learn to press the button and the binmen don't need to be there at all.Also why is it our council? Where my son lives they will take anything, bags, boxes, plus the bin itself of course and they even say good morning, what with the bins and the state of our roads,where is all the council tax going? We certainly shouldn't need to have to take rubbish to the tip, and not all of us can,but perhaps a few hundred black bags on the town hall steps will inform them that we've fed up with the way they treat us.

Err....I think you've failed to notice that the OP and another poster were referring to Rotherham council, and another poster was referring to her council in Derbyshire.

However, with landfill sites becoming full, and the need to recycle more, maybe we will all have to adjust our habits in time?

Err....I think you've failed to notice that the OP and another poster were referring to Rotherham council, and another poster was referring to her council in Derbyshire.

However, with landfill sites becoming full, and the need to recycle more, maybe we will all have to adjust our habits in time?

I do recycle but with 2 kids (1 teenager), 2 adults, 1 cat and 3 dogs, we produce quite a bit of rubbish.

The 'once a fortnight' collection has already started around here (Thorpe Hesley), my bin hasnt been emptied this week, and is already full, I have got a full black binliner waiting in the garage until i get to the tip, but what am i supposed to do when i clean the garden (remember ... 3 dogs) its un-recyclable .... do i have to have a bag of sh*t sitting in my garage (thats located off my kitchen) for 2 weeks:gag: ?????? or do i have to do a 10 mile round trip daily to the tip to dispose of it!
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It's going backwards to make it two weeks, not forwards. The least people should expect, after 9 years of Labour Council Tax plunder, is a weekly service for the health and wellbeing of communities.

It's not on to expect people to have to put a chicken/turkey carcass in a bin, with other foodstuff as within a fortnight it's maggot, fly and rodent infested.

1/3 of landfill goes to China anyway, why not make it all? The UK can't stop China, India etc who are going to be doing 100 times - probably more the damage to the environment with C02 emmisions so this worthless pursuit may as well end now and give them 100% of our waste.

<edit> just to add all the UK landfill that gets sent to China doesn't even add extra transport miles, so beloved of environ-mentalists as they import cheap crap by sea to Britain, we export waste crap on the returning leg so the cycle begins again. There's no reason why we can't export 100% of our landfill to China at an extremely cheap cost and with no added sea miles.

and with little harm to the environment - at least no more than keeping a rightful weekly service up to the hard-bitten taxpayers of a once proud nation.

Especially as their argument is there's no more space in Britain for landfill that these facsist measures are being taken.

Not even getting on to the terrifying spy cameras in every bin that Britons face.

in manchester we have the black bin emptyed once a week the green one twice a month and the blue and brown once a month every year they send us a sticky calender so we now what to put out and when

Now my bins only emptied fortnightly i have took to wrapping all food stuffs in plastic bags to aviod flys and the like. After every meal, i am scraping the waste into a plastic bag and knotting it up securly for the sake of hygine .... but .... isnt plastic bags bad for the environment?
and seeing as i am still producing the same amount of waste as before, will have a weekly trip to the tip to unload 3/4 black binliners.

so, in short, the councils 'greener' approach is a total waste of time, not only am i producing the same crap, but im ruining the environment by wrapping everything in plastic!

Im still waiting to find out if dog poop is re-cyclable by the way!
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I do recycle but with 2 kids (1 teenager), 2 adults, 1 cat and 3 dogs, we produce quite a bit of rubbish.

The 'once a fortnight' collection has already started around here (Thorpe Hesley), my bin hasnt been emptied this week, and is already full, I have got a full black binliner waiting in the garage until i get to the tip, but what am i supposed to do when i clean the garden (remember ... 3 dogs) its un-recyclable .... do i have to have a bag of sh*t sitting in my garage (thats located off my kitchen) for 2 weeks:gag: ?????? or do i have to do a 10 mile round trip daily to the tip to dispose of it!

The "official" response to your quandary (yes, I've 2 dogs - I'm with you!) is to do the same as with "old" meat - stick it in a bag and put it in your freezer until the night before the collection.....and no, I'm not joking....

The "official" response to your quandary (yes, I've 2 dogs - I'm with you!) is to do the same as with "old" meat - stick it in a bag and put it in your freezer until the night before the collection.....and no, I'm not joking....

sorry, i just couldnt, its so very wrong :gag: I dont have a 'spare' freezer and i cant put it in with food. Think i might parcel it up and post it to the refuge department. :thumbsup:

back to topic, dont you think that this limited collection will increase fly tipping offences?
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I do recycle but with 2 kids (1 teenager), 2 adults, 1 cat and 3 dogs, we produce quite a bit of rubbish.

The 'once a fortnight' collection has already started around here (Thorpe Hesley), my bin hasnt been emptied this week, and is already full, I have got a full black binliner waiting in the garage until i get to the tip, but what am i supposed to do when i clean the garden (remember ... 3 dogs) its un-recyclable .... do i have to have a bag of sh*t sitting in my garage (thats located off my kitchen) for 2 weeks:gag: ?????? or do i have to do a 10 mile round trip daily to the tip to dispose of it!

Thorpe Hesley is in Rotherham. This is the Sheffield (not the Rotherham) forum.

sorry, i just couldnt, its so very wrong :gag: I dont have a 'spare' freezer and i cant put it in with food. Think i might parcel it up and post it to the refuge department. :thumbsup:

back to topic, dont you think that this limited collection will increase fly tipping offences?

On paper, yes, because my local council is planning to charge anyone that leaves black sacks of rubbish out next to their bin with fly tipping.

put the rubbish in plain black bags and dump it on your street corner then it gets removed without having to sort it at all. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

put the rubbish in plain black bags and dump it on your street corner then it gets removed without having to sort it at all. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

aka "Fly Tipping"!
You naughty boy!
It also accounts for why you see bloody tyres, car batteries and the like littering the streets - not only won't the binmen take 'em, most (all?) of the tips won't either....

I'm sure I've had this discussion on here before......

I am in Dronfield.

We have a green bin (garden waste and cardboard) emptied once a fortnight.

We have a blue tub (tins/glass) and blue bag (paper) emptied once a fortnight.

We have our black bin (general waste) emptied once a fortnight.

We used to full our black bin in a week. Now we don't fill it in a fortnight. There is no issue with hygene, rodents or smells as the bins are designed to cope with this.

There are 2 adults, 2 kids and a dog at our house. We have had this system for 2 years now - we don't have a problem.

I am also going to get myself a third bin (small one) so that I can seperate all the plastic out and take that to a plastic recycling place - reducing our black bin waste by approximately a further half.

Call me self righteous, but I am very happy to be doing all I can to help keep the planet a nicer. healthier, greener place for my kids to grow up in.

I'm sure a small amount of work from everyone is worthwhile in the long run isn't it?

We have a green bin (garden waste and cardboard) emptied once a fortnight.
We have a blue tub (tins/glass) and blue bag (paper) emptied once a fortnight.
We have our black bin (general waste) emptied once a fortnight.
We used to full our black bin in a week. Now we don't fill it in a fortnight. There is no issue with hygene, rodents or smells as the bins are designed to cope with this.
There are 2 adults, 2 kids and a dog at our house. We have had this system for 2 years now - we don't have a problem.
I am also going to get myself a third bin (small one) so that I can seperate all the plastic out and take that to a plastic recycling place - reducing our black bin waste by approximately a further half.
Call me self righteous, but I am very happy to be doing all I can to help keep the planet a nicer. healthier, greener place for my kids to grow up in.

I'm sure a small amount of work from everyone is worthwhile in the long run isn't it?
Well said.
we are starting this scheme next month and I for one am looking forward to it.
All I hear from neighbours is doom and gloom. Lets see.

what am i supposed to do when i clean the garden (remember ... 3 dogs) its un-recyclable .... do i have to have a bag of sh*t sitting in my garage (thats located off my kitchen) for 2 weeks:gag: ?????? or do i have to do a 10 mile round trip daily to the tip to dispose of it!
I think it would be a good idea to introduce another bin for people with dogs, A "Brown Bin" for all the Eartha Kitt. :thumbsup:

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lets face it. the uk is the worlds biggest bin. everyone dumps their crap on us.week in week out.

Thorpe Hesley is in Rotherham. This is the Sheffield (not the Rotherham) forum.

And at a guess that's why it is in general discussion and not general sheffield chat

why not flush your dog s**t down the toilet??

has no one thought of this? it's where our c**p goes!

why not just dump your dog's s**t on the pavement near where i live? Seems like every other dog owner does!

Thorpe Hesley is in Rotherham. This is the Sheffield (not the Rotherham) forum.

Thorpe Hesley is located on the bundry of sheffield, rotherham and barnsley.

is it some kind of sin to visit sheffield forum unless I'm in the centre?:loopy:

BTW ... I'm born and bred sheffield!!!!!!
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Thorpe Hesley is located on the bundry of sheffield, rotherham and barnsley.

is it some kind of sin to visit sheffield forum unless I'm in the centre?:loopy:

BTW ... I'm born and bred sheffield!!!!!!

I know where Thorpe Hesley is..... it's in Rotherham, as I've already stated.
My point about your location is that other posters appear to think you are referring to Sheffield City Council. In your OP, you didn't state you were referring to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council.

Many councils are going for it. Doncaster as well after a trial apparently was successful. Dubious in the extreme though the Mayor said this week the true reality of the situation when apologising for the spy cameras in the trial areas.

"The new scheme may take some getting used to but the financial (and environmental) benefits far outweigh any initial reservation residents may have."