Taking action against Local Council?

Graham_Devon

We also get ours emptied every 2 weeks. We have a brown bin for our food waste and garden waste. It stinks to high heaven in this weather, feel sorry for the bin men. Ours is on our gravel, we noticed 2 black birds digging little holes in the gravel and pecking up white things.

I moved the gravle with my foot. Hundreds of maggots in every square foot. They were covering about 9 square feet. Disgusting. We can't put anything down because we have a dog, don't wanna poison him, so lets the birds do their thing.

We didnt notice (as we do it so quick because of the stench) that everytime we opened the bin, a few maggots would fall out. Plus flies are round it all the time. Asked the neighbours if they were having the same problem and to their horror, found loads of maggots in their grass. We've also noticed a few rats at night, round the road, never ever had this before, only had the bins about a year, concluding its gotta be something to do with it.

Only have to walk by ours in the heat and you know your near it.

lil'H

We're on a 2 weekly serivce too, it's a joke, we have 4 large bins between 40 propertys, before the week is up it's impossible to shut any of the lids, but hey we can't complain, it was only two bins until recently!

Councils eh, sure this 2 week too few bins thing must breach laws in other countries!

lil'H

La_Tristesse_Durera

hjb123 wrote:

How come you had to buy a bin - would the council not supply you with one? The bins we have we didnt have to pay for - all included in the council tax I think.

In our area we have a grey wheelie bin for normal sort of domestic waste and a green wheelie bin for garden waste. We also have 2 small green tubs for recyclable waste.

Free bin!! From Waverley BC? No chance!
Looks like we've all got the same problem especially in this heat, we've had maggotts, cats ripping the bags etc, so now we hide them in the shed.

It's crazy, you buy a house, pay your council tax and want to better yourself and they act like this. We want to recycle and we have to go out of our way to make this happen!! It's truely disgraceful

I called them after work but it would appear that they've skulked off for the day, I'll give em a bash tomorrow

Graham_Devon

We also get increased council tax, but increased work!

Dunno about you, but it's tops off bottles, labels off if possible (I never do). Certain bottles can't go in to the recycling bin. Then we have to wash out our tins and put them in clear plastic bags. Theres an inspector comes round, usually every month inspecting these clear bags for any mess, like baked beans or anything. SO we have to wash all those out, again take labels off, but i never bother.

Then it's food waste into a small caddy bin and into the bigger stinking brown bin along with any garden waste (grass cuttings stink!).

Then it's paper, with staples, paper clips and seletope removed into a blue bag. Card also goe's in there, apart from corregated card, which goes into the brown bin apparently.

Then theres the anything else bin.

We have 4 different bins, so think yourself lucky! Plus they won't take them if the inspector sees something they don't like. Just throw them back, literally into your garden, or leave the bins full.

Its a bit of a nightmare when you have to dissect all your rubbish! Don't mind doing it, but then they do all this and increase the council tax at the same time by £130! Then you add up the water your using washing out the tins when your on a meter etc etc. May seem trivial, but every penny counts.

chevalier

Erm whilst I agree with the original poster that they shouldn't have removed the bin, I do wonder about this. The whole point of two weekly collections is to encourage people to compost more waste to recycle it themselves. I appreciate that if one is living in a flat that this is not possible, but if the food waste (not meat though) was composted in a bin (that you can get cheap from your council), then that might help with the maggot problem?