Rant, but maybe it'll amuse some of you.

meandthree

York council does a slightly larger bin for free once you ave 5 people in your household, you just need to phone up and fill in a form once new baby is born.

Techhead_2

Naf wrote: »

Ok, now go back & read the bits of my letters where I say that I do use my recycling bins as much as I possibly can. And where I point out that although a lot of my waste is technically recyclable, my council don't offer the facilities to do so.
The second letter hasn't been sent yet, I ran out of time yesterday to go and deliver it. It was my birthday, after all; complaining to the council was not exactly what I had planned to spend my day doing.



The previous tenants stuff wasn't in the bin, it was part of the two bags left beside it. Just my waste for the fortnight accounted for more than filling the bin.



Precisely the kind of thing I want to point out that my council should look at. I agree with them that a shared house of students or workers would very likely manage with this bin; because they are not home all day every day, so waste from their lunch/dinner would not always be included in there. My wife & kids are home all day, and the bin already isn't big enough. The new baby will only exacerbate this, as will the fact that from October I'm not going to be working, I'll be at Uni - so I'll be home all day too.



How?



How?



Let's spend some of that housing benefit or higher rate CTC on it, yes? Instead of, say, my rent? Or my food bill?
Ok, so that's a bit flippant of me. But I wouldn't be prepared to do so anyway, I see no reason that I should when it's not like I'm being excessive with my waste. I buy things in bulk packs to split up, I reuse carrier bags, I tear the dratted windows out of envelopes. Unfortunately I can't do anything about the volume of nappies my kids go through, or about companies who pack things with polystyrene (even in this day & age!).



I imagine (and granted this might be a stretch to make such an assumption about their intelligence) that they would have offered this already.
I did consider looking at just buying another wheelie bin myself, but I'm not over keen on the idea when I should be able to get an adequate bin. If it was anything more than general household waste (say i was running a business from home) then I wouldn't be making a fuss, because then it would be my fault for adding the extra waste: but everything in that bin (bar the one-time extra few items from the previous tenant) is just the general waste I can't help but produce; and that ought to be taken by the council.



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The bin is always overfilled on a normal week, it just fortunate that I've usually been able to stack it on top and it's been taken, even though the lid is only resting on the rubbish, not fully closed. I had stacked two bags on top, just like usual, but the bin men have just dumped these with the two beside the bin and left the lot.
The 'recyclable packaging' is stuff like polythene air cushions, bubble wrap & foam. It can be recycled ("where facilities exist"), but my council won't collect it in the recycling bin. The recycling that they will collect if neatly bagged is excess bottles, cans & cardboard alongside the recycling (here the weeks alternate - waste one week, recycling & garden bin the next).



Yeah, OK, the letter probably isn't the best. I wrote while I was still seething from my phone conversation with them. As I said above, I've not actually sent the second one, so I can have another look before Monday.
I didn't think the first one was bad though?

How about following the MSE way and be less flippant and argumentative. Cut the emotion, speculation and accusations. Why not be constructive? Whilst proposing better recycling facilities and higher allowances for families is a good thing. Do it in a way which is more likely to be successful. And be receptive to changes you can make as well

Naf

meandthree wrote: »

York council does a slightly larger bin for free once you ave 5 people in your household, you just need to phone up and fill in a form once new baby is born.

They're claiming the bin I have is already suitable for 5!

meandthree

Phone again then, cos they're definitely offered one to me when i phoned, although I never bothered to fill out the form and send it back ! Will do for the next one! Trish

junkmayle

The waste managers at York Council are pretty crap and appear not to understand what their job actually is.

I went for an interview for a dustmans job with these people and the stuffed suit kept banging on about customer service and other rubbish (no pun intended). I seriously thought I had wandered into a DFS interview by mistake.

Finally I cracked. After one pointless question too many I told him, "Look. The people who you empty bins for are not customers, they're captives. If your service is crap, they can't exactly bin your service and ask Leeds Council to empty the bins, can they?" The mans goldfish impression was, well, impressive. Needless to say, I didn't get the job.

As for your problem, OP, just put the excess rubbish into as many carrier bags as needed and drop them in a public bin.