On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:59:58 +0000, Owain
wrote:

Bob Martin wrote:
In Germany (at least, when I was living there in the early 80s) they had a
monthly "big rubbish day" when people put out beds, fridges, etc.
A key feature of the scheme was that people would wander round and take
whatever they fancied. The council picked up the rest.
(thinks, why does the UK never take up bright ideas from elsewhere?)

Because the Germans probably put their rubbish out only on the allotted
day, positioned exactly five hundred millimetres from the kerb.

In the UK it would be left out weeks beforehand and people would
dismantle the piles and take only the good bits, leaving a mess everywhere.


In Headingley it's a fixed penalty offence to put out the wrong
coloured bin, or the right coloured bin (so many ?) hours outside it's
allotted time of emptying.

The hobby-bobby community ****sterbule (AKA "Parkie") will come and
get you with his Zapper.

DG