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Quite frankly local councils take the biscuit but apparently not the rubbish these days. They just haven't got a clue and to be honest this fortnightly rubbish collection idea is just crazy. I've just read an article in the news about a guy who now has a criminal record - for overfilling his wheelie bin by four inches believe it or not!
What on earth are they playing at? Apparently Copeland Council sent an employee out there to take a photograph of the offending bin, then a couple of days later officers with stab vests turned up to read this poor guy his rights and issue him with an on the spot fine.
More fines, more council tax wasted...
Is it just me, or has the whole world gone barking mad? Surely local councils can find a better way to spend their bloated tax coffers than hunting down residents and making criminals out of them.
Apparently in Nottingham it's now a crime to leave your bin out on the street too long after the rubbish has been collected. More fines, more council tax wasted. If they collected the flipping rubbish every week instead of just once a fortnight then we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place! Maybe that was the plan all along. Let's save money by collecting less frequently, then we'll sting them with fines. That'll stitch them up nicely thank you very much. Grrrrr...
Well Mr Corkhill of Whitehaven, Cumbria; here's a suggestion for you. Why don't you fill up your bin to the prescribed level and put the remaining rubbish into a large wheel barrow. Then once a fortnight take it up and dump it right on the doorstep of your local council offices. Let's see then if the can place hand on heart and say that fortnightly collections are such a good idea.
By: Trashman
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Right, that's it - I am about to have serious ructions with my neighbour over our wheelie bins. He never puts his out and we have a fortnightly collection here. That means that his rubbish is just rotting for up to a month. OK, maybe that's his problem but not when I can smell it from my garden. It also attracts rats and flies.
To be honest though, the thing that really annoys me is when he uses MY bin to dump his family's waste. There are 7 of them all together, at home all day and I notice that when I get back in the evening, the lid of my wheelie bin is sticking up. He can't be bothered to put his own bin out so when it gets full, he just uses mine!
This now means that I've got nowhere to put my rubbish and I will probably get fined by the council for having the lid sticking up. I can't stay at home all day, monitoring my wheelie bin, can I? I don't fancy talking to him about this because he's a massive slob. Any suggestions before I totally lose it?
I would like to take my neighbour's stuff out but it's unwrapped smelly nappies, dog poo and a bag of what appears to be car parts!!
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