dont want to use food caddy

kitrat

There must be a black market in food bins in our area as ours has been nicked twice in the space of 6 months. I am very close to writing something rather rude at the bottom of our latest bin to catch the eye of the perpetrator, the only thing stopping me is I wouldn't wish the binmen to think it was directed at them.

Feral_Moon

What happens if you don't actually have any food waste?

Norman_Castle

Davesnave wrote: »

Usually I just clear stuff like this, but I had an ID for this lot. The guys HMRC papers + more. So frustrating.

Leave the bag on his doorstep with the letter stapled to the outside and a note saying, "returned to sender".

MacMickster

Niv wrote: »

Landfill tax is ~£80 per tonne. If you put your recyclables in landfill it is costing a lot of money, money that could be spent improving your local area

Just one layer of government charging a different layer. Public finances being paid back to the public purse. No real cost other than pen-pushers wages.

scaredlady

We were given a kerbside caddy and a kitchen caddy by the council.
The kitchen one is lined with biodegradable bags ,which are used/tied up/and emptied when required-no smells ever. Transferred to the kerbside caddy when required, and put out once a week.
At the moment we get the bags from sainsburys, but I will take a look in poundland..didn't know they did them

patman99

Her in Colchester, we have a food caddy for indoor use and a food waste bin outside. This is collected weekly.

We have clear bacgs that can be used for plastics, paper and rags (not in the same bag though). These are collected fortnightly depending on which week it is.

We have a box for glass and tins which is collected weekly along with the normal black waste bags.

Meanwhile, in Tendring, no more free black bags, so you have to buy them (or resort to puting out an un-lined dustbin and hopping the contractors realise that they are supposed to empty the bin and put it back and not check the whole thing in the back of the truck).

Davesnave

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Leave the bag on his doorstep with the letter stapled to the outside and a note saying, "returned to sender".

I could have done that for all the good speaking to the council did me, but until today I believed they would do something, even if it was only send the guy a warning letter.

It's going to get personal if I have to go down the road of direct action. Been there, got the T shirt.

A few years ago our council used to be very accessible and keen to nip problems in the bud. Now, it seems, they're hiding behind a young lady who fields phone calls for all the depts and 'passes messages on.'

The same council wanted £3.50 to take a few small offcuts of drain pipe from me last week. So, I can see the attraction of not playing by the rules, especially when they won't enforce anything...

"£3.50 or chuck it in the hedge?" It's a no-brainer for some.

Niv

MacMickster wrote: »

Just one layer of government charging a different layer. Public finances being paid back to the public purse. No real cost other than pen-pushers wages.

Which could be avoided and go back into the local community if people recycled more...