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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Are you effected?
Are you in an area where your council has decided to cut rubbish collections to once every four weeks
fine if you live on your own or no large family, but on the bright side, the wildlife and rats will be well fed and you can always purchase an air freshener for the summer months
Good idea or bad? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices  "
that comment have been quoted a few times on ITV news this morning, I think that would be a clear message to them if all litter was being dumped there each morning |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices "
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
that comment have been quoted a few times on ITV news this morning, I think that would be a clear message to them if all litter was being dumped there each morning"
Except the fine for fly tipping |
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Ours is collected weekly. And we don't have bins. The council provide us with red bags for recycling and a box for cardboard. We have to provide our own black bags for anything else. But there is no limit to the amount they take. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help."
also quoted in news this morning, if they cut back on bin collection service then council tax should also be reduced
monthly bin collection will only encourage fly dumping and people stopping in lay-bys to dump bags of garbage in lay-by bins |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We take our rubbish to the nearest tip on the week our rubbish isn't collected. I'm sure others could do the same, if they were able to (not everybody drives or lives near a tip I know).
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not a problem tbh. We rarely half fill our (small) rubbish bin every two weeks. However we could really do with another recycling bin when we stop being able to burn lots of our waste on the winter fire... |
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my area still fortnightly but would be disaster here as canal streams brooks already got outbreak of rats sometimes people communel bins get forgotten yes i think so unless on your own already change our bins to smaller ones alot more recycling we got 4 recycling boxes that dont get fill quick which is silly tins go in one paper cardboard.then waste plastic in another but also waste one dont mind recycling |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help.
also quoted in news this morning, if they cut back on bin collection service then council tax should also be reduced
monthly bin collection will only encourage fly dumping and people stopping in lay-bys to dump bags of garbage in lay-by bins"
Yes but the problem with "quoted" is that they're usually quoting an ignorant chav with no understanding of council services and how they're funded.
Anyway, it's simple, just recycle more and use less stuff. If you're a family, you already get a bigger bin. I don't know what the heck people put in them to fill them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help."
As the parent of "a looked after child" i.e. special needs disabled child, who will shortly be an adult needing social care. I think maybe you would like to rephrase your comments, as it makes it sound like they are the reason the council's are cutting bin service's.
They are being cut to encourage people to recycle more and cut down on what gets sent to landfills, as much as to save money. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help.
As the parent of "a looked after child" i.e. special needs disabled child, who will shortly be an adult needing social care. I think maybe you would like to rephrase your comments, as it makes it sound like they are the reason the council's are cutting bin service's.
They are being cut to encourage people to recycle more and cut down on what gets sent to landfills, as much as to save money."
I won't rephrase it, services are being cut because councils can't afford them all. Understandably, councils are having to maintain the services which they're legally obliged to provide (like looked after children, which means children in care, so not what you're talking about anyway) and as a result other services are reduced. I'm not saying they're wrong to do so, but unless it's a council in an affluent area, that's the reason the services are being cut back. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help.
As the parent of "a looked after child" i.e. special needs disabled child, who will shortly be an adult needing social care. I think maybe you would like to rephrase your comments, as it makes it sound like they are the reason the council's are cutting bin service's.
They are being cut to encourage people to recycle more and cut down on what gets sent to landfills, as much as to save money."
I think you are better watching the news to find out the real reason bin collections are being cut, rather than what you think the reason to be |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help.
As the parent of "a looked after child" i.e. special needs disabled child, who will shortly be an adult needing social care. I think maybe you would like to rephrase your comments, as it makes it sound like they are the reason the council's are cutting bin service's.
They are being cut to encourage people to recycle more and cut down on what gets sent to landfills, as much as to save money.
I think you are better watching the news to find out the real reason bin collections are being cut, rather than what you think the reason to be"
What does the news say?
(Remembering, of course, that news organisations are run by companies who are deeply political in nature.) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help.
also quoted in news this morning, if they cut back on bin collection service then council tax should also be reduced
monthly bin collection will only encourage fly dumping and people stopping in lay-bys to dump bags of garbage in lay-by bins
Yes but the problem with "quoted" is that they're usually quoting an ignorant chav with no understanding of council services and how they're funded.
Anyway, it's simple, just recycle more and use less stuff. If you're a family, you already get a bigger bin. I don't know what the heck people put in them to fill them. "
In my bin I put
Used condoms
Sanitary towells
Cat litter
My daughter's nappies
Yogurt pots
Packaging non recyclable
Amongst other things
I recycle as much as possible
Different people have different circumstances and generate different amounts of rubbish.
Once a month sounds lovely and hygienic.
Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
Or, understand that council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?
Or your way. Because that'll help.
As the parent of "a looked after child" i.e. special needs disabled child, who will shortly be an adult needing social care. I think maybe you would like to rephrase your comments, as it makes it sound like they are the reason the council's are cutting bin service's.
They are being cut to encourage people to recycle more and cut down on what gets sent to landfills, as much as to save money.
I think you are better watching the news to find out the real reason bin collections are being cut, rather than what you think the reason to be"
I,m not watching the news, I am replying to a comment someone else made, implying that it's because of what councils are paying for social care. So get knotted. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm torn on this. When I lived in NYC our trash was collected twice a week. Recycling was once a week. It was a massive change to come here and only have it collected once every two weeks. But, having said that, after the first few weeks it wasn't that hard to adjust. I imagine I'd feel the same if it were changed to once a month.
If budgetary concerns are the problem then why not get a bit more creative? Maybe they could do monthly trash collection but have more trash points where people could bring their trash throughout the month if they have a lot. There are times when have more trash than usual and the infrequent trash pick up can be hard during those times. Just an idea. |
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We have a green bin which only gets used for bind and potato haulms - everything else is composted.
We have a full-sized recycling bin that is often nearly full each fortnight.
We have a food-waste bin we never use, why would one waste food?
We have a half-size general waste bin, that is generally less than half full when we put it out once a fortnight. Sometimes we don't even bother to put it out.
If you have problems with rats and vermin, OP, it's more likely your poor bin management, or, as with us, your stupid neighbours spreading loads of food of the ground "for the wildlife"
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
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We have a food bin supposed to be collected weekly sometimes isn't
Garden waste that's every 2 weeks, recycling bin that's every week and a general rubbish that's every 2
Often at Xmas the bins are overflowing and we don't have a car |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bin always full and collected every two weeks no one around here uses the recycle bins as the collectors throw them around and break the sealed tops there is so much fly tipping in this country has anyone worked out the cost difference from collecting weekly as apposed to the cost of teams finding dumped waste and collecting it ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They couldn't do that here! The LA are too tight to even provide us with wheelie bins, so a load of bags in the street for 4 weeks wouldn't be a good idea. |
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"Oh, and BTW, family of four, including two teenagers
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That's why you don't have waste food then!.... It's just a constant feed me feed me feed me"
Plus the dog too
I think having two parents that went through rationing helps as well. |
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" council finances have been so crippled by government cuts and increasing levels of demand for adult social care and looked-after children that people are going to have to get used to paying a lot more council tax to maintain the level of service they think they're entitled to?"
this..
however anyone interprets it there are more cuts coming on the back of those already affecting some services we used to take for granted from the councils where we live..
we all need to expect more of such things as central Government reduce what they give to local councils..
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By (user no longer on site)
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live on a new estate could swear our wheelie bin was smaller than where we was living before. (Post above makes sense now about slimline bin)
the estate refuse is collected every two weeks, recycling is collected everyweek the wheelie bins are constantly overflowing, it doesnt help when you do put things out for recycling that it doesnt get collected, last reason was there was a metal lid on a glass jar....,we dont recycle anymore. and our nearest tip is only open 2/3 days a week. the county councils used to own and repar the refuse lorries now they Lease them! the extra cost is in itself caused by governments where we used to have 1 refuse lorry come round once a week we now Have 4 some weeks so thats 3 extra crews and 3 more lorry's to lease and run. |
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"Are you effected?
Are you in an area where your council has decided to cut rubbish collections to once every four weeks
fine if you live on your own or no large family, but on the bright side, the wildlife and rats will be well fed and you can always purchase an air freshener for the summer months
Good idea or bad? "
What *are* you gonna do with all those UKIP flyers? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I have a pet habit of sorting people's rubbish out when I visit there house, it just narks me when i see cardboard in the rubbish bin!.
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Cardboard goes in the garden large Oil drum and set on fire, gone in minutes up into the atmosphere for everyone to breath in
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What *are* you gonna do with all those UKIP flyers?
UKIP???? im in Scotland, UKIP is an Englander issue |
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By (user no longer on site)
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mine hasn't done this but i only put mine out every month anyway, i have 3 kids living with me and don't buy a lot of rubbish luckily.
i think it's good. even when i had 4 kids at home and 3 were in nappies i never filled my whole bin up every two weeks. some people need to stop buying so much rubbish. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from."
i agree with this. don't leave all the onus on rubbish to consumers.  |
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My council alternate the weekly collections, recycling this week, rubbish next. And the last couple of days before they turn up is a struggle to fit it all in and get the lid shut, if the lid doesn't close they refuse to empty it.
And don't get me started on the maggots in the summer  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from.
i agree with this. don't leave all the onus on rubbish to consumers. "
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"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from.
i agree with this. don't leave all the onus on rubbish to consumers. "
Yes; this;
Luckily over here there is much less packaging in supermarkets; and lots of good grocers shops; so you use your own bags; or paper bags.
Freind of mine in UK used to remove all the packaging and wrapping at the supermarket till and leave it there for them to sort out. |
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"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from.
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Government should also do more to make the supermarkets play their part. We were impressed in Germany by the deposits charged on plastic & glass bottles, and the automated system where returns were rewarded with coupons.
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By *adyDangerWoman
over a year ago
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"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from.
i agree with this. don't leave all the onus on rubbish to consumers.
Yes; this;
Luckily over here there is much less packaging in supermarkets; and lots of good grocers shops; so you use your own bags; or paper bags.
Freind of mine in UK used to remove all the packaging and wrapping at the supermarket till and leave it there for them to sort out."
I think manufacturers need to be more conscious of their packaging by either using less or making it 100% recyclable. My waste gets taken every other week one week is recyclable waste collection the next is non. My waste bin is always only half 3/4 full but my recyclable one is always full. I've just ordered another our council give them for free but waste ones cost £30. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Won't be long before we're back to throwing buckets of shit n piss out of our windows."
Im okay, Im connected to private sewage, don't pay sewage on council tax |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from.
i agree with this. don't leave all the onus on rubbish to consumers.
Yes; this;
Luckily over here there is much less packaging in supermarkets; and lots of good grocers shops; so you use your own bags; or paper bags.
Freind of mine in UK used to remove all the packaging and wrapping at the supermarket till and leave it there for them to sort out.
I think manufacturers need to be more conscious of their packaging by either using less or making it 100% recyclable. My waste gets taken every other week one week is recyclable waste collection the next is non. My waste bin is always only half 3/4 full but my recyclable one is always full. I've just ordered another our council give them for free but waste ones cost £30. "
anyone with a full bin should just dump stuff in their neighbours 3/4 full bin |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No, but this twitter tag would sum it up, #brexshit lol."
oh yeah. the eu was paying us to recycle stuff, now we won't get free recycling bins any more probably. and more recycling waste - they might charge us for this too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No, but this twitter tag would sum it up, #brexshit lol.
oh yeah. the eu was paying us to recycle stuff, now we won't get free recycling bins any more probably. and more recycling waste - they might charge us for this too."
That is right, maibe it was eu bins with the council town names on, but yeah they defo dont take health and safety into consideration do they |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No, but this twitter tag would sum it up, #brexshit lol.
oh yeah. the eu was paying us to recycle stuff, now we won't get free recycling bins any more probably. and more recycling waste - they might charge us for this too.
That is right, maibe it was eu bins with the council town names on, but yeah they defo dont take health and safety into consideration do they"
the eu did, but my council probably won't due to cutbacks.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No, but this twitter tag would sum it up, #brexshit lol.
oh yeah. the eu was paying us to recycle stuff, now we won't get free recycling bins any more probably. and more recycling waste - they might charge us for this too.
That is right, maibe it was eu bins with the council town names on, but yeah they defo dont take health and safety into consideration do they
the eu did, but my council probably won't due to cutbacks. "
That is right eu did, did they do cut backs after brexit or before? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No, but this twitter tag would sum it up, #brexshit lol.
oh yeah. the eu was paying us to recycle stuff, now we won't get free recycling bins any more probably. and more recycling waste - they might charge us for this too.
That is right, maibe it was eu bins with the council town names on, but yeah they defo dont take health and safety into consideration do they
the eu did, but my council probably won't due to cutbacks.
That is right eu did, did they do cut backs after brexit or before?"
after. well ever since the conservatives got in they did cutbacks. but all the environmental incentives were paid for by the eu.
this goes for housing that saves tenants money on their fuel bills, the recycling, all that kind of thing. |
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By *adyDangerWoman
over a year ago
land of debauchery and kink |
"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from.
i agree with this. don't leave all the onus on rubbish to consumers.
Yes; this;
Luckily over here there is much less packaging in supermarkets; and lots of good grocers shops; so you use your own bags; or paper bags.
Freind of mine in UK used to remove all the packaging and wrapping at the supermarket till and leave it there for them to sort out.
I think manufacturers need to be more conscious of their packaging by either using less or making it 100% recyclable. My waste gets taken every other week one week is recyclable waste collection the next is non. My waste bin is always only half 3/4 full but my recyclable one is always full. I've just ordered another our council give them for free but waste ones cost £30.
anyone with a full bin should just dump stuff in their neighbours 3/4 full bin "
My neighbors do this sometimes, doesn't bother me on bit x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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it's an essential service being stretched to the limit. no doubt someone will offer private refuse collection to householders but where is it being dumped? a prime opportunity for fly tipping opportunists.
personally i'm saddened that the public do not ask the question "if it's austerity, where the hell has the money gone/going?" we pay more but get less. a start would be a demand that if businesses were bailed out with public money and they still operate, insist on reimbursement. as a country we should push on this rather than one protest vote on EU.
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"it's an essential service being stretched to the limit. no doubt someone will offer private refuse collection to householders but where is it being dumped? a prime opportunity for fly tipping opportunists.
personally i'm saddened that the public do not ask the question "if it's austerity, where the hell has the money gone/going?" we pay more but get less. a start would be a demand that if businesses were bailed out with public money and they still operate, insist on reimbursement. as a country we should push on this rather than one protest vote on EU.
phew, rant over. "
You could start by asking what the prices are in the Restaurants and Bars in the Hiysrs of Parliament;
Then when you find that the booze is half the price it can be found anywhere else, and that they are eating high end restaurant quality food at Burger King prices, you could ask who subsidizes that...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I go to put some rubbish in mine and theres stuff in it that aint even mine :-/
As for once a month = more fly tipping = council workers doing the same amount of collecting
Its a no brainer if you ask me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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black rubbish bins are now small size same as the recycling and every two weeks - i lft mine for a month and still only 2/3 full - blue and brown every 2 weeks and green one weekly over the summer/autumn then forthnightly - i never filled them even when kids were home - |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I struggle now on fortnightly. Quite often end up doing a tip trip and I have two bins.
Dont recycle as someone nicked my bin and they dont want to replace it. I do sort cardboard and bottles and take them when i go shopping to the bottle bank etc |
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By *adyDangerWoman
over a year ago
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"I struggle now on fortnightly. Quite often end up doing a tip trip and I have two bins.
Dont recycle as someone nicked my bin and they dont want to replace it. I do sort cardboard and bottles and take them when i go shopping to the bottle bank etc"
Have you rang your local council up? Mine replace for free. I've got 2 recycle bins. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Government should do more to make companies supply goods in recyclable packaging, as that's a big area rubbish comes from.
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Amazon own brand stuff is really good for this actually. They call it 'frustration-free packaging' and note on a product page if it comes that way. It's easy to open and usually recyclable.
And I know that people moan about their computer algorithm boxes, but all of the cardboard packaging is burnable or recyclable... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I struggle now on fortnightly. Quite often end up doing a tip trip and I have two bins.
Dont recycle as someone nicked my bin and they dont want to replace it. I do sort cardboard and bottles and take them when i go shopping to the bottle bank etc
Have you rang your local council up? Mine replace for free. I've got 2 recycle bins. "
yup.. they said i could buy a new one |
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By *adyDangerWoman
over a year ago
land of debauchery and kink |
"I struggle now on fortnightly. Quite often end up doing a tip trip and I have two bins.
Dont recycle as someone nicked my bin and they dont want to replace it. I do sort cardboard and bottles and take them when i go shopping to the bottle bank etc
Have you rang your local council up? Mine replace for free. I've got 2 recycle bins. yup.. they said i could buy a new one"
That's awful our council replace recycle bins for free or even let you have another for free, as I said I got another one the other week no problem. I'd ring your local MP and see what he/she says x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Drove down the A9 last night, clocked a car in lay-by with boot open, he was taking bin bags out of boot and dumping in lay-by bin, the bin was full (lid couldn't close for black bin bag, and he laid two others by the side of the bin
Then again it may not be house hold rubbish, may be some other dodgy rubbish |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
that comment have been quoted a few times on ITV news this morning, I think that would be a clear message to them if all litter was being dumped there each morning
Except the fine for fly tipping "
A mate of mine got a £80 wounded for dropping his fag in Chester ..imaging what two weeks worth of shite would get ? |
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Our recycling gets taken every week but our general waste is every 3 weeks!! Even with a huge wheelie bin it's still overflowing by the time 3 weeks is up and it stinks!!
We've also just been informed that we will now have to pay if we want the brown bin (garden waste here) collected. |
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Ours is collected every 2 weeks personally they should reduce council bill, yes we do have free labour hand pickers going through some depots.
As goes for the recycling uk dont recycle its sent abroad. |
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"Ours is collected every 2 weeks personally they should reduce council bill, yes we do have free labour hand pickers going through some depots.
As goes for the recycling uk dont recycle its sent abroad. "
The point is that they can't reduce the council tax bill because other services have got more expensive.
I suppose that, instead, they could do something like reduce workers wages?
If people were willing to pay a bit more council tax... |
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"Ours is collected every 2 weeks personally they should reduce council bill, yes we do have free labour hand pickers going through some depots.
As goes for the recycling uk dont recycle its sent abroad.
The point is that they can't reduce the council tax bill because other services have got more expensive.
I suppose that, instead, they could do something like reduce workers wages?
If people were willing to pay a bit more council tax..."
We don't have a choice in Scotland, the largest two house bands in council tax are having a big increase, not sure how much more we are going to have to pay |
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We don't have a choice in Scotland, the largest two house bands in council tax are having a big increase, not sure how much more we are going to have to pay"
You do realise that's to pay for all the forruns |
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I leave excess packaging in shops."
Which you are legally allowed to do. But obviously shops don't want you knowing that, as it'll be more excess rubbish from them. |
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what i dont understand is why is it anyways up to the people at the bottom who have to make the changes like recycling and paying tax.why arnt multi million pound business forced to ditch plastic in favour of hemp for example.going off topic a little but if youcocovered a state not much bigger than Florida with solar panels then you could power the whole of the usa. |
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We have fortnightly collections on our bins, general waste one week and recycling and garden waste the next.
Our recycling is always full and we often have to leave a box of cardboard at the side of the bin. A weekly collection or bigger recycling bin would be perfect for us.
Garden waste collection every two weeks in the winter is a waste of money, people don't need it. Weekly in the summer would be great and monthly in the winter would work better.
Our general waste is normally only half full and that's mainly made up of cat litter, wouldn't want that hanging around for a month and stinking!
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"We have fortnightly collections on our bins, general waste one week and recycling and garden waste the next.
Our recycling is always full and we often have to leave a box of cardboard at the side of the bin. A weekly collection or bigger recycling bin would be perfect for us.
Garden waste collection every two weeks in the winter is a waste of money, people don't need it. Weekly in the summer would be great and monthly in the winter would work better.
Our general waste is normally only half full and that's mainly made up of cat litter, wouldn't want that hanging around for a month and stinking!
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its not what you want
its what your council decides |
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"We have fortnightly collections on our bins, general waste one week and recycling and garden waste the next.
Our recycling is always full and we often have to leave a box of cardboard at the side of the bin. A weekly collection or bigger recycling bin would be perfect for us.
Garden waste collection every two weeks in the winter is a waste of money, people don't need it. Weekly in the summer would be great and monthly in the winter would work better.
Our general waste is normally only half full and that's mainly made up of cat litter, wouldn't want that hanging around for a month and stinking!
its not what you want
its what your council decides"
Not now you've taken back control it's not |
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Our general waste is normally only half full and that's mainly made up of cat litter, wouldn't want that hanging around for a month and stinking!
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You can buy paper litter for cats and then it can be composted - although don't put it on your vegetable garden. |
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Our general waste is normally only half full and that's mainly made up of cat litter, wouldn't want that hanging around for a month and stinking!
You can buy paper litter for cats and then it can be composted - although don't put it on your vegetable garden."
I tried it but the little buggers wouldn't use it. Fortunately we compost the waste from our chickens which helps keep our general waste down.
We are generally very aware of what we throw away. Anything that is reusable and surplus to our requirements goes to the charity shop or if we're planning a tip run, to the reuse shop on site. We recycle everything that we can and compost everything that we can too. Food waste is something that we rarely have, if we cook too much it is used up in another meal or taken for lunch the following day.
Our only real issue with reduced bin collection would be the cat litter.........unfortunately we've been unable to train them to shit in the neighbour's garden so they always come home to use the tray |
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"just take the excess and drop it outside the local council offices
that comment have been quoted a few times on ITV news this morning, I think that would be a clear message to them if all litter was being dumped there each morning
Except the fine for fly tipping
A mate of mine got a £80 wounded for dropping his fag in Chester ..imaging what two weeks worth of shite would get ?"
£20,000 fine and/or up to 6 month in prison. We have signs round here saying so. |
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If we were serious in the UK about recycling and reducing fly tipping council tips/recycling centres would be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and take unlimited amounts of anything from anyone, rather than having all the restrictions there currently are. Mind, that wouldn't raise lots of money so it won't happen. One in the south I used to take my stuff too had problems with queueing so they reduced the hours it's open to cure the queues. Hmmm. |
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