Fortnightly rubbish collection and fines

A broken car-window, as a result of vandalism, presumably with the intention of stealing either the car or its contents, is no longer considered a crime. Overfilling a dustbin with rubbish, in the vain hope that it will be collected at some point within a fortnight, is now considered a crime.

Tax, fine or criminalise the hardworking, morally respectable and law-abiding citizens. Laud, protect or fund the utter scum that take advantage of this spineless nation; the politicians who have no grasp on everyday life, the bogus asylum-seekers, the babies-for-benefits chav scum, the spoilt teenagers who think the world owes them the ultimate respect and honour, the home-grown British-born terrorists, the frantic, desperate talent-free celebrities, the overpaid bully-boys masquerading as premier league footballers and their cheap, nasty girlfriends, the proponents of total, utter, mindless violence towards babies, children, pets, animals both wild and domestic, the elderly, the disabled.
Where is this country's sense of perspective? I truly, truly despair...

Is this a Bin ploicy or is it an envirommental policy?

People like to give the impression that they are very pro the environment. We can alll understand why people would like to live in a clean, fresh uncomplicated environment, it's bound to be easier than living in the fug-like atmosphere of a swamp. THE quetion has to be, when faced with the possibility of being able to vote Green Party, why did the vast majority recently vote Conservative in the local elections????

Don't tell me it's because you vote one way locally but another in a General Election. I am not buying this. I could if the Tories had won say 100 to 125 councils, but they didn't, they won 256. That's too many all on one day to argue with any credibility that the vote will be different come a General election?

He'll not be in for much longer. Labour have exhausted their expiry date with the people of this country. Just like Hitler's Generals had had enough of him, his troops fighting constantly for years, returning their medals enveloped back to Hitler from the front.

Time out for Labour am afraid. They invest no good for the benefit of the people of Britain.

Let Norway and Denmark supply the mosquito nets to Africa, why is it Britain is constantly coughing up for the remainder of the world?

These space cadets in power really leave me feeling empty, empty as a politician's promise.

The similarities between Labour and the Nazis are that once they are in power we have no bloody chance of getting them out again. Gordon Brown is not an elected prime minister, nobody wants him in power and everyone wants another election. In any other country in the world this would be called dictatorship.

It is just another underhanded scheme to prize more money out of people, making people feel more miserable than what they already are.

It is like this new ID card invention, if you happen to misplace it or not have it on person, guess what? Yer fined. How much money can they rake in on this one, per day?

Just can't understand why British people accept crazy initiatives, like having Bin Police without any kind of protest. It seems all our politicians have to do is come up with some stupid refuse policy and we just accept it, partly because the word "environment" has been widely used in the policy text, to make it sound more valid.

I just wish I understood why the general attitude towards these sorts of things was one of complete apathy. Surely we didn't win two world wars, (with the help of the Americans) to have to put up with this kind of lunacy?

We don't recycle plastic here in Cambridge. All the plastic that could be recycled just goes in a bin. The last place I was at they were really big on it, about 15 miles from where I'm now living.

Another method of trying to prize money from the working people by imposing these ridiculous fines.

The difference between the Nazi party and the Labour Party is this :
The Nazis presided over the strength and construction of Greater Germany and removed what they considered to be alien (ie non Aryan) elements,
Labour are presiding over weakening and destroying the UK and filling it with alien elements.
I am not condoning the actions of the Nazis but there is food for thought here.

The councillor who lives opposite me gets in his 4x4 and drives round the corner to the paper shop every saturday to pick up his paper. During the week his wife drives their 3 children to school in the same vehice (bearing in mind that the school is a 5-10 minute walk away) On bin collection day his bin is always open at least 50 cm. Can anyone tell me how much he gets fined because it seems to me that this is far worse for the environment than leaving you wheelie bin open by 10 centimetres. I dont remember there being a Nazi Party Candidate on the voting form during the last general election - How wrong was I?

Our collections are going fortnightly come May and despite our best efforts to recycle, the waste bin still gets full within a week. We have 3 wheelie bins, one for waste, one for garden waste and one for paper/card. We recycle cans and bottles off our own back as the council don't provide bins for these.

The 2 recycle bins get collected less frequently than the waste collection and we can fill our paper/card bin within a week what with all the wasteful packaging that tends to get used. Plus myself and my mum bring home non-confidential paper from work to recycle at home as our workplace doesn't have such facilities!

The other night Dom Joly was on Channel 4 with his show called The Complainers. One issue was the fortnightly collections in Oxford. Dom had put waste in a container, sealed it up and let it fester for nearly 2 weeks. He then organised a meeting with the councillor so he could hand her the waste. However she smelt a rat, literally, and cancelled the meeting. He also went out one night and sifted through known councillors bins to see if they were sticking to the rules they enforce. An excellent show.

Then he followed around the 'enforcement' team of one council who admitted that nobody to date had been fined. Obviously, since then that bus driver has been branded a criminal - which is such a diluted term now.

They are a corporate bunch of Nazis.

What has happened is our beloved govt. has handed over mass loads of power to these councils.

Now they are acting like law enforcement agencies throughout the land. Wanna be Cops, recorded interviews, making people feel criminal over the disposal of a yoghurt pot.

Our local council took somebody to court for having the incorrect rubbish in their bin for that particular week. They lost as the homeowner said they could not prove it was him that put it there as the bin had been put out Wed night, just before bedtime, for collection Thursday. As it was out overnight any individual could have put rubbish in it.
They have now introduced a new rule stating that bins are not to be put out until two hours before alloted collection time. They have issued a collection timetable to every house and will be monitoring the streets for bins put out too early. Our alloted time is midday. I go to work,in another town, at 7am. My wife, who works nights, has to set the alarm to get up and put the bin out, thus disturbing her sleep. She works really hard in her job (special care nursing) and needs her sleep. I approached the council and asked for an exemption to the rule based on our circumstances. They refused. The clerk even told me (off the record) that they want to prosecute people as it will speed up total compliance and reduce their costs quicker.