Bin Men Getting Even More Lazy

Mr_baldybikerboy

With all due respect and I'm perfectly believing of your story - you are in a minority of people who would actually be telling the truth. If this is patronising then it's not meant and I apologise.

Mr_baldybikerboy

I do understand what your gripe is but surely it's with your neighbour and not with your binman.

hollydays

Well,I don't believe the neighbour would have put it in what they thought was their bin,if they realised that an ever so slightly opened bin would cause it not to be collected.

I don't blame my neighbour at all-I blame the binman for taking such a militant stance.
They could clearly see it was one plastic container,and we (or any of our neighbours) ever did this before.Not only that,common sense would tell them I hadn't done it before so I was probably telling the truth.

Mr_baldybikerboy

You must appreciate that 2000 bins per day is a lot of bins to empty. The individual who actually refused to empty your bin would not even know why the lid didn't close. It was simply one bin which fell into a certain criteria.

Okay all this is me defending council policy. But I actually agree that the open lid policy is ridiculous.
The argument I have given you is the standard argument you will always receive.

hollydays

..then be an individual and don't give a standard answer...

fairenoughclough

My bin service is much improved since the delivery of a bin for recyclables.

The recyclables bin is collected every four weeks and every four weeks I have two bins put back where I left them.

The other three weeks I need to go and find my bin at the end of the street.

Mr_baldybikerboy

My individual answer is that I was sidetracked here. My original answer was to the claim that Binmen are lazy.

Poppycat

Please show me where I said that bin men dont pay council tax

Mr_baldybikerboy wrote: »

Do you think that bin-men don't pay council tax. Of course they do. And this goes towards a host of services - refuse collection being the least!

You are correct in that most jobs don't pay much anymore. I once worked at heights and was paid danger money. Theres no dangermoney here (regardless of the physical hard work - it was the hardest job I ever did) for the torrents of verbal and occasional physical abuse suffered daily. Of course we hold up the traffic, but then if we didn't then the streets would be flowing with rubbish.

Systems are in place in my own council whereas elderly, disabled and properties with problem access (eg long farm track or steep grass banking)are catered for.

mcduff16

Just to add my two cents- around £50 a year is spent on both your waste and recycling collections- total bargain me thinks!;)

Mr_baldybikerboy

Poppycat wrote: »

Please show me where I said that bin men dont pay council tax

Sorry if I made it sound like that, but I never inferred that you said that. I was just stating the obvious.