No wonder people fly tip

[pork911]

It's all very corporate these days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwJlZrNPviY

[Hackney]

Our building has two large waste bins (the industrial size) and two recycle bins of the same size to service 25 flats.
A lot of people moved in so there has been a larger than normal amount of rubbish. They were all full some time ago and bags of rubbish and recycling were left on the floor of the room the bins are kept in to the point where you couldn't enter the room but just open the door.

On Monday (after two weeks) they were emptied. We'd held back some rubbish and recycling so I took it down on Monday night.
Both rubbish bins were full to the point that the lids wouldn't close. Both recycling bins were full so I had to take each item and shove it into the slot.

It will be two weeks (from Monday) before the bins are emptied again. Seems like a recipe for rats and foxes to me.
Glad I live on the top floor.

(Brent Council BTW)

[L1OFF]

I got banned from my local Waste Recycling Centre (AKA Dump)when I was completing my last house refurbishment because "I looked like a kitchen fitter"

[bimsb6]

Ours is quite good once you know "the rules" , we always ask their advice on where to put stuff ( makes them feel valued ) one of the guys helped the mrs last week which is a first , a few years back i turned up in my BT van to dispose of quite a large amount of old engine oil that had built up in the workshop , whilst pouring it in the correct container a rather rotund employee waddled over and pre empting the conversation i said " you don't seriously think we change our own oil ?" He looked at me and said "hmm i suppose not" and walked off ! Common sense prevailed .

[mph1977]

Vipers said:

mph1977 said:

226bhp said:

Ah the 1st world problems of the modern day gardener, years ago it would have been branches on the fire and burned on a Winters day and smaller stuff put on the compost heap then recycled and put back on the garden.
Now my Council tax has gone up to pay for my neighbours who can't be bothered to do this...

tru dat...

it's amazing how many people think you can't burn garden waste like tree / hedge clippings ... carbons arguments aside.

Check neighbours washing isnt out

thast's obvious /common sense , but more the belief it;s angainst health and safety / some random unspecificed european law, the Clean Air act ....

[Renovation]

mph1977 said:

it's amazing how many people think you can't burn garden waste like tree / hedge clippings

I called my Council before lighting a fire (on a dull, damp day) they confirmed you could light fires.

I was surprised when I then got a visit from Env Health who said I couldn't light a fire.

I explained I'd called earlier.

"Ah well in theory you can, but you can't cause a nuisance, if anyone complains about your fire, its a nuisance"

"So how do I know before lighting a fire whether it's a nuisance ?"

"Around here - it'll always be a nuisance"

[AlmostUseful]

I've never cared much for any law or regulation regarding garden fires, I just won't have one because it's downright fking rude. The smoke lingers, it covers other peoples gardens in ash (my garden is currently lightly topped in half burnt pieces of paper from my ignorant of a neighbour having a fire) and someone nearby will always have some washing out or a window open.