No ones mentioned the bins yet...

chillitt · 11-04-2008, 07:23 PM

So, out with weekly black bag collections, and in with fortnightly black wheely bins alternated with green garden waste bins and recycling bins. No complaints in principle, even though we get 2 week old rubbish hanging about..
First problem, its a green bin and recycling bin week this week, according to my nice new leaflet (got 3 of them..) trouble is, we aint got any green bins!!
Emailed the sort it chaps, got an automated response with no useful info and thats it.
Today was collection day, out went the recycling boxes (more in hope than expectation..) And tonight they are still full...rubbish is starting to blow round the village....
Question is, do I leave them out (risking a £1000 fine!!) in the hope they will turn up at some point, or give up till the next expected collection on the 25th...
Anyone care to bet on
1. when we get a bin
2. when it gets emptied
3. when I get a reply to the email I just sent
4. when someone complains about the rubbish everywhere...

(someone from the council came into my shop today looking into how long I have had lights over my shop front, as I don't have planning permission. Good to see one part of the council is switched on..

The lights have been up since the 60s, aren't used and the shop is listed so I'm not taking them down even if they tell me too...

)

**Shizara** · 12-04-2008, 10:24 AM

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(someone from the council came into my shop today looking into how long I have had lights over my shop front, as I don't have planning permission. Good to see one part of the council is switched on.. The lights have been up since the 60s, aren't used and the shop is listed so I'm not taking them down even if they tell me too... )

Smoke and mirrors is the expression that comes to mind. Divert your attention from what would seem to me to be a more important issue than lights over your doorway that aren't used isn't exactly the best way to use council tax payers money. The other concerning thought is that the lights have been there since the 1960's and wonder if this the first time they have noticed. This would give the impression there is little else to occupy their time, yet, unlike rubbish sitting around for 2 weeks, the presence of lights not in use will not encourage vermin and disease.

chillitt · 12-04-2008, 07:08 PM

Good news! the recycling boxes were emptied early this morning, no doubt on double time for a Saturday....

Still no sign of a green bin though....

**Shizara** · 13-04-2008, 06:01 PM

Wahey!

chillitt · 13-04-2008, 07:47 PM

Wahay indeed - It's now nearly as good as it was before they started messing about with it....

chillitt · 07-05-2008, 11:02 PM

4 weeks on, and I have received a reply to my Email to the sort it team... an automated reply...

Still no green bin, still no idea when. Fab
Ironically Gloucestershire has decide not to use its green bins anymore because they don't have locks on them...

so just over the border are tens of thousands of bins, just what we need, going begging. what are the chances?

cathidaw · 07-05-2008, 11:22 PM

Here in Bedworth we have had -green bin for garden waste,
black for-up to now -anything else ,
red box with no lid for papers, shoes, car batteries (only one at a time).glass
Now we also have:
reusable blue bag for-paper.
reusable yellow bag forcardboard,
white sack-textiles,
orange sack off roll for plastics.

The first collection of the bags was last week. I drove to town in the afternoon.,,it was windy and most of the empty -reusable bags were blowing in the wind along Newtown Road, into gardens, the road, and stuck against trees and fences. I had thought about getting another bin to keep these bags in,but if I put the new bin out with these filled re usable bags--I was told by a council spokeswoman that the bin men will either take nothing- or my new bin as well. Depending how they feel.!!

**Shizara** · 09-05-2008, 05:17 AM

... but they still get their Christmas bonus I presume...

09-05-2008, 10:26 PM

You wait till the new Stratford 3 Wheelie bin for everyone new arrangements starts..I can honestly say THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS FIASCO ARE A TOTAL BUNCH OF IDIOTS (albeit on final salary pension schemes and with virtually 100% job security unlike most folk in the real world!)

chillitt · 10-05-2008, 05:48 PM

Yesterday the bin lorry came round to empty the green bins that aren't here yet...

11-04-2008, 07:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
chillitt Running on empty Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: warwick Posts: 432	No ones mentioned the bins yet... So, out with weekly black bag collections, and in with fortnightly black wheely bins alternated with green garden waste bins and recycling bins. No complaints in principle, even though we get 2 week old rubbish hanging about.. First problem, its a green bin and recycling bin week this week, according to my nice new leaflet (got 3 of them..) trouble is, we aint got any green bins!! Emailed the sort it chaps, got an automated response with no useful info and thats it. Today was collection day, out went the recycling boxes (more in hope than expectation..) And tonight they are still full...rubbish is starting to blow round the village.... Question is, do I leave them out (risking a £1000 fine!!) in the hope they will turn up at some point, or give up till the next expected collection on the 25th... Anyone care to bet on 1. when we get a bin 2. when it gets emptied 3. when I get a reply to the email I just sent 4. when someone complains about the rubbish everywhere... (someone from the council came into my shop today looking into how long I have had lights over my shop front, as I don't have planning permission. Good to see one part of the council is switched on.. The lights have been up since the 60s, aren't used and the shop is listed so I'm not taking them down even if they tell me too... )

13-04-2008, 06:01 PM	#4 (permalink)
Shizara Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nuneaton Posts: 1,134	Wahey! __________________ Cool

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Shizara Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nuneaton Posts: 1,134	... but they still get their Christmas bonus I presume... __________________ Cool

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12-04-2008, 07:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
chillitt Running on empty Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: warwick Posts: 432	Good news! the recycling boxes were emptied early this morning, no doubt on double time for a Saturday.... Still no sign of a green bin though....

13-04-2008, 07:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
chillitt Running on empty Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: warwick Posts: 432	Wahay indeed - It's now nearly as good as it was before they started messing about with it....

07-05-2008, 11:02 PM	#6 (permalink)
chillitt Running on empty Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: warwick Posts: 432	4 weeks on, and I have received a reply to my Email to the sort it team... an automated reply... Still no green bin, still no idea when. Fab Ironically Gloucestershire has decide not to use its green bins anymore because they don't have locks on them... so just over the border are tens of thousands of bins, just what we need, going begging. what are the chances?

07-05-2008, 11:22 PM	#7 (permalink)
cathidaw Community Senior Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Exhall Posts: 551	Here in Bedworth we have had -green bin for garden waste, black for-up to now -anything else , red box with no lid for papers, shoes, car batteries (only one at a time).glass Now we also have: reusable blue bag for-paper. reusable yellow bag forcardboard, white sack-textiles, orange sack off roll for plastics. The first collection of the bags was last week. I drove to town in the afternoon.,,it was windy and most of the empty -reusable bags were blowing in the wind along Newtown Road, into gardens, the road, and stuck against trees and fences. I had thought about getting another bin to keep these bags in,but if I put the new bin out with these filled re usable bags--I was told by a council spokeswoman that the bin men will either take nothing- or my new bin as well. Depending how they feel.!!

09-05-2008, 10:26 PM	#9 (permalink)
Unregistered Posts: n/a	You wait till the new Stratford 3 Wheelie bin for everyone new arrangements starts..I can honestly say THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS FIASCO ARE A TOTAL BUNCH OF IDIOTS (albeit on final salary pension schemes and with virtually 100% job security unlike most folk in the real world!)

10-05-2008, 05:48 PM	#10 (permalink)
chillitt Running on empty Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: warwick Posts: 432	Yesterday the bin lorry came round to empty the green bins that aren't here yet...