Whellie bin theft

SailorSam

lkmc01 wrote: »

My address was on the bin. It makes no difference

If your address id already on it, walk up and down the road the next time the binman is due.

Peter999_2

An old workmate told me that he thought he'd once had his wheelie bin stolen.

The council wanted to charge £100 for a new one, and he remembered that his CCTV actually covered where the wheelie bin was.

He checked the CCTV. He saw that the wheelie bin was still there when they came to collect it. The guy put it on the lorry, it tipped up, and disappeared!. You could then see the bin man have a quick look round, make sure nobody had seen anything, and just walked away.

Needless to say, when he phoned the council again a new one was provided FOC the next day.

lkmc01

Thanks everyone. It might have got completely burnt out in the woods behind our house. My mum says that some people also use them for transporting booze to other peoples houses (new year) when they are walking round for a party!!! :eek:

Gloomendoom

JethroUK wrote: »

£25 seems cheap - council must be paying 4 or 5 times that

I doubt it. You can buy them individually for £50, probably less. As they are buying in bulk, the council are likely to be paying a fraction of that.

joinaman

Am I missing something here?

How can you be held responsible and charged for the loss of a wheelie bin?

You were told to -

Put something owned by the council - The wheelie Bin

on to council property - The pavement

On an agreed date


When the bin was originally delivered to your property, did you sign for it? did you sign agreeing to pay if lost/damaged?, sign an agreement to put out the bin on a certain date?

NO

We were told we had to use them, no choice, to make life easier for the dustbinmen, at no time was I ever asked if I wanted them, or that I was going to be liable for them and it is stated on the bins that they are the proprty of the council, so any problems with the bin should alays be the councils problem, not yours

Go back to the council and ask if the bin is council property, then tell them it is their responsibility to replace it free of charge, not yours

JethroUK

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I doubt it. You can buy them individually for £50, probably less....

Thats never stopped councils paying 3-4 times what an individual would pay privately

but i take your point

RDG

Having worked as a bin man when at Uni I can confirm that occasionally bins will get chucked into the back by the machinery as its all automated there is nothing the bin men can do, this only happened once in the 3 months I was working (the guys I was with at the time said that was the forst they had seen in 12 months). On that occasion we knew which house the bin came from and put a note through, but in many places you cant tell which house a bin belongs to once its disappered in the machine so cant do anything about it and seen as bin men work to very tight schedules they dont have time to try and work out which house it could be and start knocking on doors.

But in the OP's case if this is the 3rd thats gone walkies then its highly unlikely the bins are being lost in the truck.

I can only suggest that you mark it in a way that cannot be removed, if it is someone locally taking it then at least you will be able to track it down.

custardy

googler wrote: »

Sorry, find this a bit hard to accept; the operatives wheel two bins up to the back of the truck, press button to empty them, and don't notice that only one comes back off the truck...?

well when ours went missing
The council themselves stated they sometimes fall in the truck
replaced without question