pinklady Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 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 would the council understand if i decided to cancel alternate council tax direct debit? ________ Suzuki wiki specifications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiffRaff Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meaks Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 The council are a disgrace, as is our 'Council Tax'. Money thrown away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinklady Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 We should have a revolution!!!! storm the town hall with our wheelie bins in tow! whos with me? ________ HENRY FORD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grissom Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I'd bring my wheelie bin for the protest but I don't think they'd let me bring it on the tram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoeshine Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiglet Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okka north Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I take it your council tax rates haven't reduced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah1 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 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 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Sounds like the lunatics are in charge of the asylum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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