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Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows....
I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
Check your council website they should have a collection scheme so they can be recycled. Our council offered to collect unwanted garden waste bins after imposing a collection charge for the waste.
Richard |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
R D S wrote:
I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. Presumably they're the property of the council? I'd ask them to retrieve them, or e.g. if in future they decide to alter the scheme and want them back because of $REASONS, they might bill you for them. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
On 17/01/2019 10:47, R D S wrote:
I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. Sticky wicket here, probably not your property to dispose of. Phone the council and ask ? If you do skip them and they later ask, act stupid and say "what bins? we put them out years ago and never saw them again" although admittedly the possibility of them worrying about where your bins went is a remote one. Got to ask though, why skip them, they can be very useful , if not to you to someone, free-ad in local paper? |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
Andy Burns Wrote in message:
R D S wrote: I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. Presumably they're the property of the council? I'd ask them to retrieve them, or e.g. if in future they decide to alter the scheme and want them back because of $REASONS, they might bill you for them. After proving you had them of course... -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 17/01/2019 11:10, soup wrote:
Got to ask though, why skip them, they can be very useful , if not to you to someone, free-ad in local paper? Because it will end up like the quantity of blue mains water pipe I tried to give away, plenty of interest but nobody seeing through to actually picking it up! And someone ordered this skip on Tuesday without warning me, i haven't filled it yet, and miraculously neither has anyone else. Despite it being on a car park behind some shops. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
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R D S writes: I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. I think most councils will collect them for free, but you could start by leaving them outside with a notice on them asking anyone who needs one to take it. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"R D S" wrote in message ... I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. If the 3 wheeelie bins were allocated to an address for which you personally are paying the Community Charge , and you haven't reported them as missing then I'd be very wary of disposing of them without giving the Council adequate notice, a fact which you can subsequently prove, Again what the Council might regard as "adequate notice" may be a matter of interpretation by a Court. Basically money is tight. And any Council which had the opportunity to charge Community Charge Payers the full retail price for 3 wheelie bins (as charged by a Hi-Fi supplier for instance) would doubtless jump at the chance. Whether they bother to check or not is another matter. But if you should have had 3 wheelie bins and didn't get them, or have subsequently had them stolen then this should have been reported to the Council at the time. If it weasn't then as far as the Council are concerned you should stil be in possession of the three wheelie bins michael adams .... |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"michael adams" Wrote in message:
"R D S" wrote in message ... I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. If the 3 wheeelie bins were allocated to Snip "counsel's opinion", "Someone's nicked em guv, bloody kids, strong winds, pikeys etc etc" Ultimately just how much time (& money) are 3 secondhand wheelie bins worth? -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
soup expressed precisely :
If you do skip them and they later ask, act stupid and say "what bins? we put them out years ago and never saw them again" although admittedly the possibility of them worrying about where your bins went is a remote one. Got to ask though, why skip them, they can be very useful , if not to you to someone, free-ad in local paper? Yep! Our new green bin soon lost its lid in the truck which empties them, I rang the council asked them to supply a new lid and they dropped off a complete new bin. I repurposed the lid-less one as a handy building sand store, kept under cover at the back of the garden. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"Jim K.." wrote in message ... "michael adams" Wrote in message: "R D S" wrote in message ... I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. If the 3 wheeelie bins were allocated to Snip "counsel's opinion", "Someone's nicked em guv, bloody kids, strong winds, pikeys etc etc" So why wasn't this reported at the time ? And supposing some public spirited Council Tax payer just happens to notify the Council of this skip with the three wheelie bins in it ? Which quite possibly, to their way of thinking, the Council should come and retrieve. A fact that the OP might be completely unaware of the time. What is going to be your convenient lie in that instance, when confronted with the facts ? That the wind just happened to blow them into the skip ? And then you just happened to forget to report them missing ? There's no doubt that lying through one's teeth may indeed confer positive benefits in some instances, at least until found out. But in this instance, all the OP need do is to inform the Council. He could have course have informed the Council at any time; only the question of disposing of the wheelie bins only entered his head at all with the arrival of the skip. Which isn't the best solution for the reasons given. michael adams .... |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
On 17/01/2019 13:40, michael adams wrote:
But in this instance, all the OP need do is to inform the Council. All? You've plainly never phoned our council. Anyway curiosity got the better of me and I have my answer. It turns out our council want to come and collect old unused bins, they will call me back to make an appointment! The **** they claim to have no money for but they'll arrange appointments to drive around collecting battered old bins. The mind boggles! |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:45:28 +0000, R D S wrote:
On 17/01/2019 11:10, soup wrote: Got to ask though, why skip them, they can be very useful , if not to you to someone, free-ad in local paper? Because it will end up like the quantity of blue mains water pipe I tried to give away, plenty of interest but nobody seeing through to actually picking it up! And someone ordered this skip on Tuesday without warning me, i haven't filled it yet, and miraculously neither has anyone else. Despite it being on a car park behind some shops. Compromise? Leave them beside the skip then if anyone wants them, they can take them. Someone might think they are part of the skip process anyway. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
Many councils use bye laws to impose fines on residents such as consistently overloading bins, leaving bins out on non-collection days and I should imagine includes disposing of council property. What happens if you do not pay the fines I do not know? However it would not be beyond the bounds of becoming a criminal offence then.
Richard |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"michael adams" Wrote in message:
"Jim K.." wrote in message ... "michael adams" Wrote in message: "R D S" wrote in message ... I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. If the 3 wheeelie bins were allocated to Snip "counsel's opinion", "Someone's nicked em guv, bloody kids, strong winds, pikeys etc etc" So why wasn't this reported at the time ? And supposing some public spirited Council Tax payer just happens to notify the Council of this skip with the three wheelie bins in it ? Which quite possibly, to their way of thinking, the Council should come and retrieve. A fact that the OP might be completely unaware of the time. What is going to be your convenient lie in that instance, when confronted with the facts ? That the wind just happened to blow them into the skip ? And then you just happened to forget to report them missing ? There's no doubt that lying through one's teeth may indeed confer positive benefits in some instances, at least until found out. But in this instance, all the OP need do is to inform the Council. He could have course have informed the Council at any time; only the question of disposing of the wheelie bins only entered his head at all with the arrival of the skip. Which isn't the best solution for the reasons given. michael adams What to you are "facts" are going to be unprovable in the court that you appear keen to impress... & at what cost to the taxpayer? More or less than three wheelie bins worth? -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you,
and aare not colours the council use, you will find lots of people might buy them if they are cheap enough for their garden waste etc. I've even been told that some people cut a panel out of the side and end up with a wheelable compost bin. I guess you would nned to bore holes in it though. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "R D S" wrote in message ... I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"Brian Gaff" Wrote in message:
Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, and aare not colours the council use, you will find lots of people might buy them if they are cheap enough for their garden waste etc. I've even been told that some people cut a panel out of the side and end up with a wheelable compost bin. I guess you would nned to bore holes in it though. Brian An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Shurely the purchaser would be entitled to do what they want with those bins? -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. Which while it may allow the more enterprising if dishonest homeowner to re-use their original "lost" bin for some other purpose, is still preferable to encouraging a situation a where a flourishing black market in stolen wheelie bins could develop. This however has nothing to do with a situation where a Council might identify a useful revenue stream, in charging homeowners for lost wheelie bins which were never reported to them. Whereas if the OP reports these three wheelie bins as having been stolen, then all that will happen is that the Council will supply him with another three. michael adams .... |
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"michael adams" Wrote in message:
"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. York Which while it may allow the more enterprising if dishonest homeowner to re-use their original "lost" bin for some other purpose, is still preferable to encouraging a situation a where a flourishing black market in stolen wheelie bins could develop. If it doesn't already. This however has nothing to do with a situation where a Council might identify a useful revenue stream, in charging homeowners for lost wheelie bins which were never reported to them. My your imagination is working hard today! You seem keen to carefully snip & avoid any "real world" figures in your pipe dreamings... -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "michael adams" Wrote in message: "Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. York Fair enough; I stand corrected. So that in the case of the OP, if he remembers having paid his local authority the full cost* of the three replacement bins, then he can safely dump them in the skip. But if that were the case then I somehow doubt he would have needed to ask the question in the first place. Or are you going to argue about that, as well ? michael adams *Some local authorities do simply charge an administation fee; in which case, unlike with York the bin remains the Council's property. .... |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
On 17/01/2019 10:47, R D S wrote:
I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. Fill them with cardboard and set fire to them. -- Adam |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"michael adams" Wrote in message:
"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "michael adams" Wrote in message: "Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. York Fair enough; I stand corrected. Indeed. So that in the case of the OP, if he remembers having paid his local authority the full cost* of the three replacement bins, then he can safely dump them in the skip. What if the previous owners bought them & left them when they moved? But if that were the case then I somehow doubt he would have needed to ask the question in the first place. Or are you going to argue about that, as well ? Arguing? Merely correcting your wafty assumptions m'lud... *Some local authorities do simply charge an administation fee; in which case, unlike with York the bin remains the Council's property. No example I note... BICBA -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
soup expressed precisely : If you do skip them and they later ask, act stupid and say "what bins? we put them out years ago and never saw them again" although admittedly the possibility of them worrying about where your bins went is a remote one. Got to ask though, why skip them, they can be very useful , if not to you to someone, free-ad in local paper? Yep! Our new green bin soon lost its lid in the truck which empties them, I rang the council asked them to supply a new lid and they dropped off a complete new bin. I repurposed the lid-less one as a handy building sand store, kept under cover at the back of the garden. We have a bin whose acquisition a decade had its origins in a neighbour dispute by a relative and someone who kept thinking a right access of over a relatives driveway stretched to blocking it with a permanently stationed wheelie bin and other obstructions. The relative took direct action and we moved it two hundred miles away shortly after. At the time the missis was wanting to experiment with making liquid compost from Comfrey leafs soaked in water for a few weeks, fitting a water butt tap to the wheelie bin makes it a good processor for this. Any one who has ever made this solution will know the odour is disgusting so just bunging leaves and water in the top as required and closing the lid and draining the liquid feed out from the tap keeps it to a minimum and when the time comes to empty the remaining sludge out it can be wheeled up to a spot as far away as possible or tipped onto a normal compost heap. GH |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, and aare not colours the council use, you will find lots of people might buy them if they are cheap enough for their garden waste etc. I've even been told that some people cut a panel out of the side and end up with a wheelable compost bin. I guess you would nned to bore holes in it though. Brian An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Shurely the purchaser would be entitled to do what they want with those bins? Not when he paid the council because he allowed their bins to be stolen. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
On 17/01/2019 10:51, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:47:00 +0000, R D S wrote: I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. Freecycle them. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who would make good use of them. I've just paid £50 to get one delivered by the council, so, yes, please freecycle any superfluous ones. |
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michael adams wrote:
"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. https://www.southampton.gov.uk/bins-.../lost-bin.aspx GH |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
michael adams wrote on 17/01/2019 :
Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Leeds.. |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
Jim K.. wrote:
"michael adams" Wrote in message: "Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "michael adams" Wrote in message: "Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. York Fair enough; I stand corrected. Indeed. So that in the case of the OP, if he remembers having paid his local authority the full cost* of the three replacement bins, then he can safely dump them in the skip. What if the previous owners bought them & left them when they moved? But if that were the case then I somehow doubt he would have needed to ask the question in the first place. Or are you going to argue about that, as well ? Arguing? Merely correcting your wafty assumptions m'lud... *Some local authorities do simply charge an administation fee; in which case, unlike with York the bin remains the Council's property. No example I note... BICBA My understanding is that a 'delivery charge' is near universal among councils which wish to charge at all. It avoids all disputes about price and quality and it suits the council to remain the owner. -- Roger Hayter |
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On 17/01/2019 14:11, R D S wrote:
On 17/01/2019 13:40, michael adams wrote: But in this instance, all the OP need do is to inform the Council. All? You've plainly never phoned our council. Anyway curiosity got the better of me and I have my answer. It turns out our council want to come and collect old unused bins, they will call me back to make an appointment! The **** they claim to have no money for but they'll arrange appointments to drive around collecting battered old bins. The mind boggles! Ours supplies compostable bags for their food waste collections. They used to carry a supply on the bin wagon and when you were running low, you indicated that you needed more by tying one to the bin handle on bin day and they'd leave a roll by the bin. Now you have to phone them or use their website and they have them delivered by courier or send out a van!!! SteveW |
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On 17/01/2019 17:48, michael adams wrote:
"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "Brian Gaff" Wrote in message: Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged and belong to you, An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen, the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner. Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. Trafford charges £28 per bin or £97 for all four. This applies to lost, stolen or damaged bins or if you move into a house with no bins. The ONLY free replacement is if the bin wagon equipment damages the bin (assuming that the crew actually record the damage). SteveW |
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R D S wrote:
I can't find an an answer to this, so if anyone knows.... I've 3 wheelie bins that are unused and I want to dispose of, and i've a skip. I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. Why?they are the most useful things around, give them away you will have no end of takers. |
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FMurtz wrote: I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. Why?they are the most useful things around, give them away you will have no end of takers. I agree! I rarely put the bin out without marvelling at its design: I would say that as a work of functional engineering art, it's perfect: a _fantastic_ invention. John |
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:19:15 +0000, Another John
wrote: In article , FMurtz wrote: I can't see any problem chucking them in a skip, but then i'm not the council. Why?they are the most useful things around, give them away you will have no end of takers. I agree! I rarely put the bin out without marvelling at its design: I would say that as a work of functional engineering art, it's perfect: a _fantastic_ invention. There were ~10,000 new wheely bins in the local council yard recently and I watched them 'delivering' some to customers (inc us). ;-) V large van pulls up and they slide a stack of bins out onto the road. They are leapt on by several guys, de-stacked, arranged side-by-side in the middle of the road axle side upwards. A wheel was pushed onto one end of the axle, axle threaded though bin and the other wheel thumped on. The bins were stood up and pulled 2 at a time to each house. Rinse - repeat over the entire borough. ;-) I understand the old bins are shredded and recycled (along with any new old-style / colour / phone number / logo bins that never got used). Ironically, we generally use a large bin bag in our kitchen bin and then fill that with the smaller bins as needed when lifted out. We then put that bag in the wheely bin. It seems they often find it quicker / easier to just lift the bag out of the bin and throw it in the back of the truck (old skool stylee) than to wheel the bin out and hook it onto the lifting mech on the truck and put the bin back. When out walking the fog it never fails to amaze us how many people really don't get the whole refuse / recycling thing. Bins overflowing with the lid open (they often won't collect such). Smaller plastics box overfilled with non-crushed large coke bottles or cans. Non flattened cardboard boxes stood by the cardboard bin. A bugbear is people putting their (non green) rubbish in our green bin. OK, I'm glad they make the effort rather than just dropping it on the ground but that means we have to fish their rubbish out of an often otherwise empty (so deep) wheely bin to put it in the right place. ;-( I wonder how many here clear litter from the street near our homes (between any Council cleaners)? A few of us round here do, 1) because it looks untidy and 2) if you don't it seems to invite others to add to it? ;-( Cheers, T i m |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
When out walking the fog it never fails to amaze us how many people really don't get the whole refuse / recycling thing. Bins overflowing with the lid open (they often won't collect such). Smaller plastics box overfilled with non-crushed large coke bottles or cans. Non flattened cardboard boxes stood by the cardboard bin. A bugbear is people putting their (non green) rubbish in our green bin. OK, I'm glad they make the effort rather than just dropping it on the ground but that means we have to fish their rubbish out of an often otherwise empty (so deep) wheely bin to put it in the right place. ;-( I wonder how many here clear litter from the street near our homes (between any Council cleaners)? A few of us round here do, 1) because it looks untidy and 2) if you don't it seems to invite others to add to it? ;-( Cheers, T i m It is a way of advertising that "Thick People Live Here". I once managed to get a Micra Tailgate into a bin and have also managed a dishwasher. Many struggle to cope with a cardboard box. |
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:54:40 GMT, DerbyBorn
wrote: snip It is a way of advertising that "Thick People Live Here". Along with the 60" TV box stood outside their houses in one piece. I once managed to get a Micra Tailgate into a bin and have also managed a dishwasher. LOL! Many struggle to cope with a cardboard box. So it seems. The worst I have seen was a complete near Eurobin sized cardboard box upside down inside the Eurobin for cardboard recycling, outside the Council Offices. I pulled it out, turned it over and put all my cardboard inside it. I also understand the local council have also given up on bundling up plastic bottles for recycling because of just how much unwanted plastic is put with the wanted. So whereas they used to get a good price per truckload of 'quality' plastic they now get next to nothing for a load of polluted stuff, simply because they don't have the staff to do what the households should do (properly) in the first place. ;-( I think someone from every household should be expected to visit the local recycling / incinerator / landfill sites before they get given a bin. ;-) Cheers, T i m |
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T i m wrote:
A bugbear is people putting their (non green) rubbish in our green bin. OK, I'm glad they make the effort rather than just dropping it on the ground but that means we have to fish their rubbish out of an often otherwise empty (so deep) wheely bin to put it in the right place. ;-( I wonder how many here clear litter from the street near our homes (between any Council cleaners)? A few of us round here do, 1) because it looks untidy and 2) if you don't it seems to invite others to add to it? ;-( Well it is only a quiet village so I do and it ,usually on going to and from the allotments or walking one of the residents dogs if they need a hand. (We get the companionship without the bills). A couple of others I see pick up while walking by as well. That is in addition to a good twice a year community clean where a map of the vicinity is put on the village notice board with the local roads split into sections, you choose a section pick up one of the litter picker grabs and some bags and go along the chosen section. If you are happy it is done you put your name on the section meaning it has been done, if you havent cleared it you dont mark it and hope someone else will complete. I tend to follow on the second day and as I have my own picker which is extra long* often reach items that others could not . Once done a crisp packet , coffee cup,bottle stand out but picking them up regularly keeps it under control .. Crisps etc come from local kids who are generally quite good but let them escape from pockets, Coffee cups you can tell by the branding have been brought in at least 9 miles so probably from cars. And Im sorry cyclists but far too many of you think that dressing in a replica team strip from the Tour de France etc entitles you to throw their empty water bottles into the verge as seen on those races , except here there is no clean up operation following them. * Extra long because it was bought to reach fallen leaves in a largish pond or higher sprigs of elderflower that others cant reach. GH |
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T i m wrote:
It is a way of advertising that "Thick People Live I think someone from every household should be expected to visit the local recycling / incinerator / landfill sites before they get given a bin. ;-) For some especially fly tippers it should be a one way journey. GH |
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"Jim K.." wrote in message o.uk... "michael adams" Wrote in message: Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than replacements being provided free of charge. York As you've clearly done a lot of research on this, can you explain why the Household Waste Recycling Centre in York is named after the pulchritudinous 1960's TV and film actress ("Dick and the Dutchess", Hammer Horrors, etc ) Hazel Court ? Did she live in York at some point I wonder ? Or did she have a particular interest in Household Waste Recycling maybe ? Whatever the answer, at least it's nice to know that she's not been forgotten. https://www.york.gov.uk/HazelCourtHWRC michael adams .... |
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On 18 Jan 2019 11:53:34 GMT, Marland
wrote: T i m wrote: It is a way of advertising that "Thick People Live I think someone from every household should be expected to visit the local recycling / incinerator / landfill sites before they get given a bin. ;-) For some especially fly tippers it should be a one way journey. LOL, I like it! Cheers, T i m |
Can I chuck unused wheelie bins in a skip?
On 18 Jan 2019 11:50:20 GMT, Marland
wrote: T i m wrote: A bugbear is people putting their (non green) rubbish in our green bin. OK, I'm glad they make the effort rather than just dropping it on the ground but that means we have to fish their rubbish out of an often otherwise empty (so deep) wheely bin to put it in the right place. ;-( I wonder how many here clear litter from the street near our homes (between any Council cleaners)? A few of us round here do, 1) because it looks untidy and 2) if you don't it seems to invite others to add to it? ;-( Well it is only a quiet village so I do and it ,usually on going to and from the allotments or walking one of the residents dogs if they need a hand. (We get the companionship without the bills). A couple of others I see pick up while walking by as well. Nice. That is in addition to a good twice a year community clean where a map of the vicinity is put on the village notice board with the local roads split into sections, you choose a section pick up one of the litter picker grabs and some bags and go along the chosen section. Nice setup. Daughter has helped arrange similar in our local park. If you are happy it is done you put your name on the section meaning it has been done, if you haven’t cleared it you don’t mark it and hope someone else will complete. Fair enough. Every little helps etc. I tend to follow on the second day and as I have my own picker which is extra long* often reach items that others could not . Show off. ;-) Once done a crisp packet , coffee cup,bottle stand out but picking them up regularly keeps it under control I've often been impressed by the skill of our Council litter pickers watching them pickup a mostly flattened dog-end with little in the way of effort. . Crisps etc come from local kids who are generally quite good but let them escape from pockets, They could be trained to roll then tie them up in a knot. They take up less room in their pockets and the bin and are less likely to blow about, even if dropped. Coffee cups you can tell by the branding have been brought in at least 9 miles so probably from cars. My Mums house was about a small portion of chips away from the chippy and opposite a bus stop. And I’m sorry cyclists but far too many of you think that dressing in a replica team strip from the Tour de France etc entitles you to throw their empty water bottles into the verge as seen on those races , except here there is no clean up operation following them. I can't say I've seen that but can believe it happens. ;-( * Extra long because it was bought to reach fallen leaves in a largish pond or higher sprigs of elderflower that others can’t reach. I'll have to look out for one of those, sounds very handy (even with my long arms). ;-). Cheers, T i m |
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