Covid testing and "bin men"?

[21TonyK]

How long before those collecting bins kick off about the amount of "clinical waste" being generated from home testing kits?

At home ours just go in the poly bag provided and into the bin with the rest of the kitchen crap. Today in hospital it was treated like radioactive waste and into a yellow clinical sack.

/waiting to be corrected for the use of the phrase "bin men"

[dmahon]

Bin person (they/them)

[Normodog]

Waste Operative

[55palfers]

They've been collecting nappies, sanitary towels and incontinence products for years I imagine.

[55palfers]

They've been collecting nappies, sanitary towels and incontinence products for years I imagine.

[Diderot]

You can say that again.

[BabySharkDooDooDooDooDooDoo]

Normodog said:

Waste Operative

I believe the new title is “Recycling Engineers”.

This was after the University of West Bromwich turned it into a three year degree course.

[PH User]

I've never seen a bin woman, maybe feminists should be looking into this male dominated role?

[WonkeyDonkey]

Feminists don't want to get their hands dirty, they just want the nothing jobs usually reserved for the company directors teenage son.

[voyds9]

55palfers said:

They've been collecting nappies, sanitary towels and incontinence products for years I imagine.

So a long overdue problem

[N111BJG]

PH User said:

I've never seen a bin woman, maybe feminists should be looking into this male dominated role?

The driver of our usual refuse collection lorry is a female but having never seen her deal with the bin fetching & emptying I’m not sure she is the exception that proves the rule

[Vanden Saab]

N111BJG said:

PH User said:

I've never seen a bin woman, maybe feminists should be looking into this male dominated role?

The driver of our usual refuse collection lorry is a female but having never seen her deal with the bin fetching & emptying I’m not sure she is the exception that proves the rule

One of our bin people is female and is a lovely lass. I always know when she has emptied our bins as she is the only one who shuts the gate...

[markcoznottz]

PH User said:

I've never seen a bin woman, maybe feminists should be looking into this male dominated role?

Saw one on our round last year she was pretty strong tbf, but the problem is now, that bins are being massively overfilled, more people working from home, trade waste put in domestic bins because of the council being deliberately difficult wrt local tips. Perfect storm. Various councils reduced garden waste bin collections last year, where do they think this goes? Into thin air?

[Uggers]

21TonyK said:

How long before those collecting bins kick off about the amount of "clinical waste" being generated from home testing kits?

At home ours just go in the poly bag provided and into the bin with the rest of the kitchen crap. Today in hospital it was treated like radioactive waste and into a yellow clinical sack.

/waiting to be corrected for the use of the phrase "bin men"

The home test PCRs don't create much waste, just the plastic bag it comes in from what I remember. Everything else goes back really.

If it's LFT, I'm not sure if taking it out of the bag and using it is any better than just throwing it straight in the bin when prevalence is so low

[anonymous-user]

Ahh more plastic waste to deal with. Lovely.

[sherbertdip]

I've never been tested so don't know the ins and outs of testing kits, I thought it was just a bit of snot or spit on a stick, nothing worse than a used tissue.

If it's the potential to actually have virus particles on it surely this is the same as anything coming from an infected person's rubbish that they've coughed all over so a pair of gloves should suffice, which they wear anyway.

[hepy]

A pal of mine works on the bins.

He says with all the germs he's handled over the year, he could 'lick a rat' and not catch anything!

[steveo3002]

dont seem to care in south cambs , at the height of restrictions they pulled up outside the workers house and all trooped inside for their tea break

[Rowe]

Vanden Saab said:

One of our bin people is female and is a lovely lass. I always know when she has emptied our bins as she is the only one who shuts the gate...

anyone else read this as 'one of our bin people is female and has a lovely ass' ?

[166 MM Barchetta]

Rowe said:

Vanden Saab said:

One of our bin people is female and is a lovely lass. I always know when she has emptied our bins as she is the only one who shuts the gate...

anyone else read this as 'one of our bin people is female and has a lovely ass' ?

I have no idea why, but Benny Hill popped into my head, then I just reread it as one long euphemism.
I need another coffee and a word with myself.....