Cash wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Dave wrote:
I was idly watching the refuse collection this morning and one thing
that struck me was the amount of time it takes to empty just one of
them. Take the bin to the back of the wagon, hook it up and press
the button for the rise, wait for it to empty and then want for it
to be dropped off again, then return the bin to the edge of the
property. It was a far quicker process when everyone used bin bags. OK I
know
they were subject to animals ripping them open, but most of that
risk could have been taken away by the use of an open top plastic
box to drop the bin bag in. One for each bag that was regularly put
out for collection. Dave

Of course it was more efficient. But it took at least 5 jobs to be
created to determine to use wheelie bins, evaluate their safety,
order them, get them to households, and re-equip the trucks to use
them, not to mention the extra jobs created to load them, daily. And
of course paste the stickers on refusing to collect them because
they have the wrong sort of rubbish in, or too much of the right
sort of rubbish.

This is called 'investing in people' and any right minded (sic!)
left wing government knows that this wins votes and keeps the
unemployment statistics down.

If I remember correctly, the first wheelie bins were brought in to
cut down on the number of weekly collections (bigger bins and bigger
lorries) and to reduce the number of lorries on three road, the
number of people in the crew (in the case of my then LA - they
reduced the crews from 5 men to 3) and then increased the size of the
rounds to fill the lorries - and all this was done as the results of
a right-wing Tory government run by a witch called Thatcher (who has
since spawned son-of-Thatcher -- Cameron along with his lapdogs
Cleggie and the half-bake Osborn - [just realised, you could call
that lot the First of The Summer wine - and that usually tastes like
****]).
Cash


I have a feeling that you did not like Mrs T.

--
Adam