So today is grey bin day..not to be confused with green bin day or brown bin day or black bin day or small black bin day or small green bin day.
I live in a little close.. With 18 houses in it... After every bin day... We can all be found searching for our bins... I'm sure it's a bit of sport for the bin men... But none are replaced even close to the property from whence they came... Some appear in other Streets...
Does anybody else have a bit of shenanigans on bin day? |
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I get confused; we have a black bin for general waste, a green bin for green waste, a blue bin for….I don’t know and a brown bin (for dog shit I presume)
There’s also a food waste bin (to put dog shit in?) and a paper waste bin….
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"I get confused; we have a black bin for general waste, a green bin for green waste, a blue bin for….I don’t know and a brown bin (for dog shit I presume)
There’s also a food waste bin (to put dog shit in?) and a paper waste bin….
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Our blue bin is for clothes |
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"So today is grey bin day..not to be confused with green bin day or brown bin day or black bin day or small black bin day or small green bin day.
I live in a little close.. With 18 houses in it... After every bin day... We can all be found searching for our bins... I'm sure it's a bit of sport for the bin men... But none are replaced even close to the property from whence they came... Some appear in other Streets...
Does anybody else have a bit of shenanigans on bin day? "
You’re lucky we have to haul them down a 1/4 track/ driveway |
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So many variations! Ha ha we have general waste bin which is green, a black bin for all recycling and purple bin for garden waste, which we have to pay for. No need for bin wars in my road. |
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Yours too eh?
Most of the time, my bins can still be found outside my house, but the bin men usually toss the lids onto my garden.
Our lical city council don't provide wheely bins we're still provided with recycling bags, but have to provide our own black bags - which of vourse get ripped open by foxes and ends up spread all over the street - and the bin men don't pick any of it up
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"Grey bin for garden..
Green bin for general..
Blue, recycling..
Brown, cardboard..
Op, have you got a number on yours?"
I do indeed. The same number as my house funnily enough. Post triggered by 3 of my neighbours bins going missing...
And to add to the gaiety..
Grey is general
Green is garden
Blue is recycling
Brown is food
Small green is papers
Small black is tins
Our streets have never been so clean....(not) |
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"Yours too eh?
Most of the time, my bins can still be found outside my house, but the bin men usually toss the lids onto my garden.
Our lical city council don't provide wheely bins we're still provided with recycling bags, but have to provide our own black bags - which of vourse get ripped open by foxes and ends up spread all over the street - and the bin men don't pick any of it up
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I've never been anywhere with as much litter on the streets as Southend. |
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"So today is grey bin day..not to be confused with green bin day or brown bin day or black bin day or small black bin day or small green bin day.
I live in a little close.. With 18 houses in it... After every bin day... We can all be found searching for our bins... I'm sure it's a bit of sport for the bin men... But none are replaced even close to the property from whence they came... Some appear in other Streets...
Does anybody else have a bit of shenanigans on bin day? "
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We had the dancing binmen around here. Mostly they worked a different route, but I have seen them occasionally on our road. They were quite famous during the lockdowns, not seen anything of them for a while now |
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"Grey bin for garden..
Green bin for general..
Blue, recycling..
Brown, cardboard..
Op, have you got a number on yours?
I do indeed. The same number as my house funnily enough. Post triggered by 3 of my neighbours bins going missing...
And to add to the gaiety..
Grey is general
Green is garden
Blue is recycling
Brown is food
Small green is papers
Small black is tins
Our streets have never been so clean....(not)"
Which colour bin do I put the dismembered remains of my Tory councillors in? |
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"Grey bin for garden..
Green bin for general..
Blue, recycling..
Brown, cardboard..
Op, have you got a number on yours?
I do indeed. The same number as my house funnily enough. Post triggered by 3 of my neighbours bins going missing...
And to add to the gaiety..
Grey is general
Green is garden
Blue is recycling
Brown is food
Small green is papers
Small black is tins
Our streets have never been so clean....(not)
Which colour bin do I put the dismembered remains of my Tory councillors in?"
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"Grey bin for garden..
Green bin for general..
Blue, recycling..
Brown, cardboard..
Op, have you got a number on yours?
I do indeed. The same number as my house funnily enough. Post triggered by 3 of my neighbours bins going missing...
And to add to the gaiety..
Grey is general
Green is garden
Blue is recycling
Brown is food
Small green is papers
Small black is tins
Our streets have never been so clean....(not)"
We had food down south but not here..
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"So today is grey bin day..not to be confused with green bin day or brown bin day or black bin day or small black bin day or small green bin day.
I live in a little close.. With 18 houses in it... After every bin day... We can all be found searching for our bins... I'm sure it's a bit of sport for the bin men... But none are replaced even close to the property from whence they came... Some appear in other Streets...
Does anybody else have a bit of shenanigans on bin day? "
I find this super annoying because Mr KC puts out the bins and he makes sure that they are nicely at the side of our drive. The bin men just dump them back across the driveway but by that time, he's gone to work. I am unable to move them but have to get out for school and work. I have to call random passers by to move them 
We don't qualify for the assisted bin collection where they take it back down your drive, because there is one able bodied adult in the house...... |
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I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x |
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x"
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak |
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak "
Well they say you learn something new everyday
I didn't realise it was so different, I wonder why it differs so much?
Our black bin is definitely black, black 
Miss S x |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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I did find one of mine 20 yards down the street once but usually my 3 neighbours' and my bins are left outside my gate, so they are easy to find.
Bin men don't have time to put every bin back as they've been given more streets, because of cut backs.
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak "
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
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Sorry what now... Pay extra?! 
Wait a minute
Miss S x |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
Sorry what now... Pay extra?!
Wait a minute
Miss S x"
Yea, bloody council cuts.
It was only £40 a year when they brought in paying for it, but still. Vegetation burns  |
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over a year ago
East London |
"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
Sorry what now... Pay extra?!
Wait a minute
Miss S x
Yea, bloody council cuts.
It was only £40 a year when they brought in paying for it, but still. Vegetation burns "
It's now £43 per year per bin and is collected once a fortnight.
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"Yours too eh?
Most of the time, my bins can still be found outside my house, but the bin men usually toss the lids onto my garden.
Our lical city council don't provide wheely bins we're still provided with recycling bags, but have to provide our own black bags - which of vourse get ripped open by foxes and ends up spread all over the street - and the bin men don't pick any of it up
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Should these foxes be culled. They are spreading disease |
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
Sorry what now... Pay extra?!
Wait a minute
Miss S x
Yea, bloody council cuts.
It was only £40 a year when they brought in paying for it, but still. Vegetation burns
It's now £43 per year per bin and is collected once a fortnight.
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Oh!! 
Do maybe people pay for that?
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over a year ago
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Black bin - general waste
Green lid bin - recycling
Brown lid bin - garden waste (£60 for the year)
Little Brown bin - food waste
Green box with black lid - glass/bottles/jars etc |
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
Sorry what now... Pay extra?!
Wait a minute
Miss S x"
Yes in my Dad's local council area, they have to pay extra for garden waste to be removed in the council wheelie bin (brown, as it happens) |
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" Yea, bloody council cuts.
It was only £40 a year when they brought in paying for it, but still. Vegetation burns
It's now £43 per year per bin and is collected once a fortnight.
Oh!!
Do *many* people pay for that?
Miss S x"
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"Grey bin for garden..
Green bin for general..
Blue, recycling..
Brown, cardboard..
Op, have you got a number on yours?
I do indeed. The same number as my house funnily enough. Post triggered by 3 of my neighbours bins going missing...
And to add to the gaiety..
Grey is general
Green is garden
Blue is recycling
Brown is food
Small green is papers
Small black is tins
Our streets have never been so clean....(not)
Which colour bin do I put the dismembered remains of my Tory councillors in?"
Dunno but if you put it in the wrong one they won't take it and then send you a shitty email. |
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I have a friend who lives in a close beginning with 'D' in a development called 'D Park'.
I call it 'Dustbin Close' in 'Dustbin Park' because there is nowhere for any of the households to keep their vast array of different coloured wheelie bins other than in their tiny frontage.
Wheelie bin culture had not been envisaged when the architects deigned the place.
This tatty looking scenario is repeated all over the country and appears to have no easy solution. |
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak "
Burgundy bin... Oh La Di dah! |
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
Sorry what now... Pay extra?!
Wait a minute
Miss S x"
Yeha we have to pay extra for the garden waste to be collected.. Even though I don't actually have a garden.my neighbour uses mine. You know the most recyclable waste of all... Leaves and grass and mud... Makes perfect sense |
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I feel left out... I only have 1 bin, for recycling. I just put black bags out for general waste and don't bother with the food ones as I don't create much waste.
Here it's
Black for general
Grey for food
Green for recycling
Brown for garden
We don't have any other options yet |
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"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
Sorry what now... Pay extra?!
Wait a minute
Miss S x
Yea, bloody council cuts.
It was only £40 a year when they brought in paying for it, but still. Vegetation burns
It's now £43 per year per bin and is collected once a fortnight.
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50 quid here... And they halved the size of the bin too.. You know... In an effort to be eco friendly... They sent crews out to take away the 300 litre bins which were fine.. And replace them with brand new 100 litre bins... And presumably chucked the old ones away
.. Eco friendly and all that |
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Which colour bin do I put the dismembered remains of my Tory councillors in?
Dunno but if you put it in the wrong one they won't take it and then send you a shitty email. "
Not me, they won't, because they don't have and won't be getting my email address. |
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"Grey bin for garden..
Green bin for general..
Blue, recycling..
Brown, cardboard..
Op, have you got a number on yours?
I do indeed. The same number as my house funnily enough. Post triggered by 3 of my neighbours bins going missing...
And to add to the gaiety..
Grey is general
Green is garden
Blue is recycling
Brown is food
Small green is papers
Small black is tins
Our streets have never been so clean....(not)"
Our council has given up on bins as a cost-cutting exercise. We are definitely strewn with rubbish every bin day.
Bravo Wandsworth. The foxes love it. I'v yet to see a deer feasting on a curry bit it may happen in the wee hours when no one is about. |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
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Green bin - general waste
Blue bin - recycling: paper, cardboard, plastics, glass, and cans
Brown bin - garden and food waste.
No charge for garden waste. However, due to the size of the gardens here, the gardeners have compost heaps in various places in the wood for grass and shrub clippings, so that bin mainly gets food waste from the wasteful people upstairs in it. |
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Don't get me started about my bin, the green one! Rubbish going into it by other neighbour so I put a chain and padlock on it. Fast forward two years to tonight and part of my chain has been cut off! Can only think that the bin men did it. Just don't know why, they never bothered before. Sorry folks, rant over |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"I honestly didn't know there was so many different bin variations in different places wow
Black bin - general waste
Blue bin - all recycling
Brown bin - garden waste
Miss S x
Black bin (officially dark grey, actually) - general waste
Green bin - garden, food and other organic waste
Cream bin - paper and card
Burgundy bin - tins, plastic, Tetrapak
My general waste bin is a lightish grey.
The recycling bin is brown and the green waste bin is green.
Not many people use the green ones as we have to pay extra for it to be emptied.
Sorry what now... Pay extra?!
Wait a minute
Miss S x
Yea, bloody council cuts.
It was only £40 a year when they brought in paying for it, but still. Vegetation burns
It's now £43 per year per bin and is collected once a fortnight.
50 quid here... And they halved the size of the bin too.. You know... In an effort to be eco friendly... They sent crews out to take away the 300 litre bins which were fine.. And replace them with brand new 100 litre bins... And presumably chucked the old ones away
.. Eco friendly and all that"
Except you now need two bins for the same amount of hedge trimmings and grass cuttings.
I leave mine in the garden to wilt down to nothing.
The hedgehogs use the piles of leaves to sleep under at night. |
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We don't have recycling boxes anymore
Green - General waste
Brown - Garden
Purple with a fancy go faster green trim - Recycling, cans/bottles/ tetrapack
Blue bag - Cardboard |
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"Grey bin for garden..
Green bin for general..
Blue, recycling..
Brown, cardboard..
Op, have you got a number on yours?
I do indeed. The same number as my house funnily enough. Post triggered by 3 of my neighbours bins going missing...
And to add to the gaiety..
Grey is general
Green is garden
Blue is recycling
Brown is food
Small green is papers
Small black is tins
Our streets have never been so clean....(not)
Which colour bin do I put the dismembered remains of my Tory councillors in?
Dunno but if you put it in the wrong one they won't take it and then send you a shitty email. "
They operate a system of public shaming here - they stick a big "rejected" sticker on your bin lid and refuse to take it! |
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"Did you tip generously at Christmas? If not, you might have another 11 months of bin hunting. "
I was under the impression you tip someone for good service.? I don't tip my bus driver or the check out staff either. |
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"Don't get me started about my bin, the green one! Rubbish going into it by other neighbour so I put a chain and padlock on it. Fast forward two years to tonight and part of my chain has been cut off! Can only think that the bin men did it. Just don't know why, they never bothered before. Sorry folks, rant over "
My council binned the bins so now we just chuck em in some black bags and chuck them on the street....to trip pedestrians and get run over by cars.
next decade sewage will be back in the streets too....ah the dark ages. |
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"Don't get me started about my bin, the green one! Rubbish going into it by other neighbour so I put a chain and padlock on it. Fast forward two years to tonight and part of my chain has been cut off! Can only think that the bin men did it. Just don't know why, they never bothered before. Sorry folks, rant over
My council binned the bins so now we just chuck em in some black bags and chuck them on the street....to trip pedestrians and get run over by cars.
next decade sewage will be back in the streets too....ah the dark ages."
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We had it really simple, with blye for paper/plastic, black for genera and brown for paid for garden wasye. Unto a silly foldable box was started for paper - which isn't waterproof.
I and several other neighbours take and collect back several and the refuse people are quite accurate at returning things close by 
It's probable not been outsourced to a company with a very low bid, with poorly cared for staff - and too few of them.  . Yet. |
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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago
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"We have Front load cans because of the bears and racoons. One for garbage the other for recycling.
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Can I live with you? I wanna live near bears and raccoons instead of next doors labradoddle |
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"So today is grey bin day..not to be confused with green bin day or brown bin day or black bin day or small black bin day or small green bin day.
I live in a little close.. With 18 houses in it... After every bin day... We can all be found searching for our bins... I'm sure it's a bit of sport for the bin men... But none are replaced even close to the property from whence they came... Some appear in other Streets...
Does anybody else have a bit of shenanigans on bin day? "
The least they could do is replace the bins where they found them (assuming they are clearly numbered). Back in the day they had to fetch them and return them.
Granted, they had only one bin per property to collect, but they worked harder back then. |
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I often head out for a run as the bin men are coming along my road and generally have to end my run at the end of the road when I get back. This is because the bins are left strewn all over the pavements so no one can actually walk down the road without having to move most of the bins. I dread to think how anyone with limited mobility would actually negotiate getting in and out of the road on bin day until a kindly soul has walked down and tidied the bins away. |
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By *rtyIanMan
over a year ago
Gateway to the Beacons |
No bins here well except a small green one for food waste and green plastic box for glass.
Other than that it's bags
Black household waste
Purple plastic and metal
Red paper and cardboard |
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