Wheelie Bin fine

nuttywoman

Another problem we have is that we live in a terraced street close to town, so its used as a car park all day , then the bin waggon can`t get down.Our emptying day is friday so if waggon can`t get down it gets to tuesday before we get out bins emptied.In the meantime others fill up our bin more with recycling stuff !! and i`ve told the council that no way am i paying a fine for mixing up the rubbish when its not my fault !!

Owain_Moneysaver

albyota wrote: »

errrm...... evenin all, wheely bin police here......I understand you left your wheelie bin out for a whole day.......this contravenes Section 46(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990........when will people realise this is a health and safety hazard....

When will councils realise that I do not want to get up at sparrowfart to put my recycling box out for 7am, nor do I want to take a day off work to put the wheeliebin out when that gets collected which can be any time between 9am and 4pm.

Except for last week when collections were a day later according to the council website except they council came at 5.30 pm on the 'usual' day for the wheeliebin and left the recycling box until the 'later' day.

I don't know why Tesco et al can't run bin services, they deliver most of the rubbish in the first place, book a 2 hour delivery slot online, up to 8pm at night, get as much rubbish taken away as you want. If they compartmentalised the vans you'd only have to stay in once to get your groceries delivered and rubbish removed.

Kayteehee

What a moneymaker!

That is an absolutely extortionate price!!

A different issue but someone came into my private yard a few months ago set fire to my bin, I didn't know until I went to put something in it and it was melted to the ground.... the council, despite being given a crime number from the reported offence insisted on charging me ten pounds to have a new one. I'm glad it's only ten pounds now reading this rip off!

I live in the middle of a council estate apparently mine is the only privately owned place, so it was no doubt a council tenant and I had to pay for their anti social behaviour

Fire_Fox

Where I live is starting to look like we have opened a landfill site and we have a healthy rat population.

Mids_Costcutter

nuttywoman wrote: »

Another problem we have is that we live in a terraced street close to town, so its used as a car park all day , then the bin waggon can`t get down.Our emptying day is friday so if waggon can`t get down it gets to tuesday before we get out bins emptied.In the meantime others fill up our bin more with recycling stuff !! and i`ve told the council that no way am i paying a fine for mixing up the rubbish when its not my fault !!

Might a lock on your bin be the solution? Of course it would be a shame for it to come to that.

As for the bin lorry not being able to access your street, a residents' parking scheme?

wishuponastar

i must confess i am guilty of placing 'recycling' items into our neighbours bins when our is over flowing as we do recycle a lot, esp after we have just had a party!

we have a box for glass and plastics which we put onto the street for collection every two weeks but the collectors dont empty additional plastic bags of things left for recylcing...so the day after a party i had a box full and about ten bags full!! i put some items into a neighbours box for collection as it was only half full on the day of collection and guess who passed and busted me!!! only google earth street view camera!! Looks like i am taking things out of thier bin lol

Great!

BLT_2

I don't even use my own bin, that saves me getting up early in the morning to put it out. I bag up my rubbish in plastic bags and launch it out of the window as I am driving to work each morning.

It isn't the ideal solution as I often see accidents on the road, quite frequently just behind me

BLT_2

Kayteehee wrote: »

What a moneymaker!

That is an absolutely extortionate price!!

A different issue but someone came into my private yard a few months ago set fire to my bin, I didn't know until I went to put something in it and it was melted to the ground.... the council, despite being given a crime number from the reported offence insisted on charging me ten pounds to have a new one. I'm glad it's only ten pounds now reading this rip off!

I live in the middle of a council estate apparently mine is the only privately owned place, so it was no doubt a council tenant and I had to pay for their anti social behaviour

Oh dear, damn those council tenants, clearly if they had owned their own houses their children would not have been involved in anti social behaviour

Council tenants.......tsk, the country would be far better with out them

Cucumber sandwiches anyone??:D

Mids_Costcutter

BLT wrote: »

I don't even use my own bin, that saves me getting up early in the morning to put it out. I bag up my rubbish in plastic bags and launch it out of the window as I am driving to work each morning.

You're not the only one!

candygirl

I often forget to bring my bin off the path after it's been emptied, but so do tons of peeps round here.We all also mostly put the bins out the night before
That fine is ridiculous!!!:mad::mad: