Not easy @ViewAhead but not insurmountable. The people using those bins need to have a conversation with each other and the council needs to think about how to secure those bins given they won't/can't send their binmen up an unadopted road and maybe also the people responsible for safety on roads and pavements need to add their 2 pennorth on behalf of the residents on the adopted road and its users who may be adversely affected by rolling and/or flying bins.
Our council owns our bins and we are not allowed to post/stick/paint anything on them @redstar[/QUOTE] Not even duct tape with words written on them. mine are different colors, but they have already placed the needed words on them.
Quite, @ViewAhead ! Couldn't agree more. A picture will make it easier to understand There are 7 or 8 bins just on the corner of the unmade lane where the postal van is - more round the corner out of sight, and I doubt the owners of the property bordering the road would welcome a 'bin parking' store right in front of their windows. Added to that is the danger to life and limb to those dragging the bins out onto the road in order to put rubbish inside. I for one wouldn't care to excavate the main road to sink posts into the ground either. And I doubt the council would sanction it. The problem is with the AMOUNT of bins these days, 3 per household plus a food-waste bucket. When it used to be ONE wheelie bin it wasn't such a problem. Anyway, no matter, it doesn't affect me, but thanks everyone for your input. Photo deleted.
Do you not have bin fights O-V after they have been emptied if you are unable to put ID markings on them? I used to keep my bins spotless and when I went out to bring it in it had been regularly replaced with a filthy one as all the neighbouring bins were dumped in a group and we left for work before they were emptied. Where we live now we all have our house number on the bins.
That newspaper article about the government bringing in rules about all councils having to have the same rules about bins is negated by a quote in the article:- "Councils and other waste collectors will still have the flexibility to make the best choices to suit local need." Our council sends out every six months a well thought out list of what goes in each bin and what dates they are collected and it is printed on a small plastic folder so it can be kept in a cupboard or drawer. We are lucky that as we have plenty of space there is no problem here with placing or storing bins but I think there is a different set of rules for those people in the towns and villages where there is restricted space. I find that it hurts to say nice things about our council but they are well organised with how they handle waste and they would certainly adopt the idea of the exception given above.
I wish our council was so organised. We live on a long lane that leads from nowhere to nowhere We are one of three houses on the lane. Our house is the nearest to the main road, the town and civilisation. Come bin day, one lorry comes up from the main road, ignores us, visits houses two and three, collects their rubbish and drives on. A few hours later a second lorry comes from the main road and collects our rubbish and drives on past houses two and three, ignoring them. No amount of reasoning with the council can change this. Houses two and three were given a garden waste bin for free about ten years ago. We never got one, despite asking again and again, and must now pay for one if we want one. We don’t.
Sorry to hear your council are so awkward. Our council also offer to collect the bins from alongside the house instead of us putting them on the boundary but only if we have a letter from the GP. Our driveway is 100ft long and our neighbour on one side has a 200ft driveway. He is in his mid 90's, has spinal trouble and needs a hip replacement (don't think he will get that) so I do his bins for him and I'm no spring chicken.
and they wonder why there's such a huge waste of money in councils @Tidemark .... We have 4 bins now, but the glass/tins used to be in a large plastic box, and the paper/cardboard had a plastic woven mesh bag. Those were worse than useless because the empty bags just disappeared down the various roads when it was windy - which was frequent. I don't think people here recycle well enough, and certainly don't compost stuff. It takes ages for us to fill the blue on [paper/card] because I compost most of it. It's only the shinier stuff I don't do that with. If we have a delivery of something [furniture etc] and end up with several large boxes, I sometimes put those, or some of them, in it, because it would take me ages to cut/tear it up for the compost bin.
I only put my recycling bin out every 6-8 weeks as it takes me that long to fill despite the fact I am religious about putting in everything suitable. Here, the bin persons have a habit of tipping one neighbour's bin contents into another so they have a few full ones rather than twice as many half-empty ones. The trouble with that is not all households are scrupulous about what they put in. One used to lob in milk containers with an inch of milk in the bottom. This would then spill out as the bin was upended into another. When it is black bin day, mine only has one small bag of rubbish. The bin persons lift it out and put it in someone else's, time after time. I don't think my bin has ever reached the lorry.
Our council is increasing the number of bins. To be honest I'm sick of the sight of wheelies everywhere. We will have full size wheelies for: General waste Paper Glass and tins Green waste if purchased. Plus a smaller bin for food waste (which for us is potato peelings). I'm going to dump them all behind the greenhouse as I am fed up looking at them in the back garden. Funny thing is the council bin men are still on strike so everything gets shoved in the general bin, which is collected here. We have a covenant on our estate that says bins are not to be left out the front of properties. Some ignore this and it looks an eyesore. Most comply.
Am not looking forward to getting another wheelie bin @cactus_girl. We have the perfect spot for our two waste wheelie bins, convenient and screened from sight, but it won’t accommodate three. Our garden waste bins have a similar hidden spot in the rear garden. I haven’t looked up what the roll out schedule is, am assuming it’s on hold given the never-ending strike? I think we are also getting a regular collection now. I say think, OH has being routinely taking our rubbish direct to the tip so we can still do our recycling. We have so little general waste, we only ever put it out once a month or so anyway. Trying to co-ordinate that with when there might be a collection was too much hassle and we are only a couple of miles from the tip.
Our bins have our address on them @waterbut - small, black with green lid for general waste, large grey bin with yellow lid for recycling. The size is determined by the council according to family size. The general waste bin is emptied free 26 times a year as part of council tax? After that it's payable but we don't need to put it out every time. Recycling bins are emptied free. Nobody here raids or fills neighbouring bins. Anything else we have to take to village bottle banks or the "déchetterie", depending on size and composition, and we have to show a council card that gives us free entry. We also have to put th ebins at the end of the drive on collection day @shiney and with the handles facing the road for an easy grab. They turn them round to show it's been emptied.
Now, don't get me wrong, I am no Gregg Wallace fan. He comes across as arrogant, over-confident in his meagre abilities, smug, a tad seedy, etc. However, I do have some reservations about the ability of the BBC to carry out any staffing investigation and do feel they tend to yell "fire" quickly now because they have overlooked raging infernos in the past and been caught out. So, it seems around half of the allegations against him have been upheld. These include sexual innuendo, risque jokes and the like. Well, yes, so ... Then there is "unwanted physical contact". Not sexual contact, note. So, what, did he touch someone on the shoulder or shake hands for too long? Who knows ... We certainly aren't being told. All the allegations date from the mid-noughties to 2018. So, are we to assume a joke told 15+ yrs ago has led to a complaint now? I'm all for supporting anyone who has suffered distress at the hands of someone in a senior position, but I'm not sure we currently draw the line in quite the right place. "He made me feel uncomfortable" is not enough, IMV, when we have a generation of young people in the workplace who have been brainwashed into believing they must be "safe" from any views they disagree with.
I think it’s maybe more a case of junior people not wanting to be labelled as trouble makers or thinned skinned whiners or, heaven forbid, whistleblowers. They were all waiting for someone else to be the first to upset the applecart.
Maybe. But how serious can "unwanted physical contact" that is not sexual (and if they had been able to attribute the slightest hint of sexuality to it, the report would gleefully have headlined this) be?
