Genius Council Joined Up Thinking
Discussion
It's like our local council only providing 2 official blue bin bags to every household every week, whether there are 2 or 10 of you living there. Or only allowing town centre residents one parking permit per household, no matter how many cars you have. Or spending tens of thousands of pounds on bottled water for meetings.
The champagne socialist gravy train rolls on and on.
The champagne socialist gravy train rolls on and on.
elster said:
I will write to suggest to my coucillors.
I tried to get a bin for the place I have just started renting in the centre of York.
The reply was the landlord has to, so I have to wait until he is back in the country in 12 months to get a bin. Roll on the rats.
Why not try telling them they will need to wait for him to be back in the country for the council tax as well then. See if they change their tune then.I tried to get a bin for the place I have just started renting in the centre of York.
The reply was the landlord has to, so I have to wait until he is back in the country in 12 months to get a bin. Roll on the rats.
Plotloss said:
We've just had a letter, we're getting blue wheely bins to replace the recycling baskets.
They're going to weigh the blue bins and the more you recycle, the more points you get.
The points can be redeemed...
...against overpackaged goods from high end high street retailers.
Genius.
They're going to weigh the blue bins and the more you recycle, the more points you get.
The points can be redeemed...
...against overpackaged goods from high end high street retailers.
Genius.
What are they taking - everything of just cans?
In Wokingham, they only take plastic bottles (no caps), paper & tins.
The amount of trash has almost doubled.
Bloody Tetrapak are the worst.
I think it all ends up in landfill of the incinerator anyway.
Plotloss said:
fatboy b said:
You're going to have to padlock your wheely bin now, else you'll have neighbours nicking your recycling for extra points.
I'd not considered that.I had however considered putting a false bottom in it and filling the base with lead...
mattviatura said:
We've had the recycling Nazis up here this morning in the usual massive turbodiesel truck.
The driver had a fag going in a coucil-liveried vehicle.
Not long ago we got two multi-colour brochures about the smoking at work rules.
Don't they just make you want to puke?
Report them thenThe driver had a fag going in a coucil-liveried vehicle.
Not long ago we got two multi-colour brochures about the smoking at work rules.
Don't they just make you want to puke?
Got to admit that our local council (Stirling) are pretty good. Brown wheely bin for green waste - cardboard, grass cuttings, etc. Grey wheely bin for non-recyclable waste and a couple of blue boxes for glass, plastic bottles, cans, paper. The boxes are emptied weekly, the bins on alternate weeks brown/grey.
They've built a nice new recycling centre which will take just about anything - soil, metal, old electrical appliances, etc, as well as Tetrapaks.
Their rate of recycling is one of the highest in Scotland
They've built a nice new recycling centre which will take just about anything - soil, metal, old electrical appliances, etc, as well as Tetrapaks.
Their rate of recycling is one of the highest in Scotland
We have a green bin for garden waste and cardboard and a brown bin for all food waste. Both bins get chucked in the same truck, contaminating the garden waste with cooked food. As a consequence the whole lot has to be processed specially...
In Dorset 80+ miles away because Bristol doesn't have a plant that can do it.
Apparently they are trying to get us into the habit of recycling
In Dorset 80+ miles away because Bristol doesn't have a plant that can do it.
Apparently they are trying to get us into the habit of recycling
Plotloss said:
They dont do a compost pickup in these parts, we asked for a composter for the garden (they were very keen to point out they only had 15,000 for the entire borough).
They sent 3 and 3 of the little kitchen bin things.
The bottom of my garden looks like a dalek dismantlers.
Custard! They sent 3 and 3 of the little kitchen bin things.
The bottom of my garden looks like a dalek dismantlers.
(Not that I don't believe you, but I like the thought of a picture of a dalet dismantlers.)
10 Pence Short said:
It's like our local council only providing 2 official blue bin bags to every household every week, whether there are 2 or 10 of you living there. Or only allowing town centre residents one parking permit per household, no matter how many cars you have. Or spending tens of thousands of pounds on bottled water for meetings.
The champagne socialist gravy train rolls on and on.
Isn't the issue with residents parking permits more a question of space outside the houses? If you want lots of parking buy a house with off road parking. The champagne socialist gravy train rolls on and on.
Not wishing to piss on your chips or anything...
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