I thought everyone had an imagination.
Efficiency concerns me.
The quicker they can do it, the less they have to get paid and the lower your taxes.
A bin is a bin, I did not take you for one of those fusspots who gets possessive over "their" bin which is identical to everyone else's and owned by the council anyway.
Are you speaking from experience?
Not all bins are owned by the council; some councils 'give' them to residents who then have to pay for replacements in the event of loss or damage.
And bins are not identical. Some get washed out weekly and given a spray of Bin-Fresh. Others have six-month-old sludge and bloodstains accumulating at the bottom.
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And sometimes they don't damage it.
The best one round here was when we had 'inserts' for paper inside a bigger recycling bin. They were filmed emptying the inserts into the main bin, presumably to save time.
Round here there are at least three different sizes of bin. Normally one gets the middle size, but can ask for a small one if space is tight and the bin isn't used so much.
There are large ones (we have one) which are no longer available, but still emptied OK (a 'grandfathered' arrangement).
No longer available? Why? We can't get them for free unless there are 6 people in the house, but I see plenty in the babymaking streets. What do people do round your way if they have 4 kids? I can fill the medium sized one with just myself and a few pets.
Those things can't get damaged unless you run them over with a tank. Or in council house areas, have someone jump onto them from a rooftop.
What moaning little twerp filmed them?
But they can't if you don't put your house number on them. A good reason not to.
Anyway, don't most people share bins? Me and my next door neighbour use each other's all the time. Quite often I have loads of one type of thing (eg. cardboard boxes or hedge clippings) to throw out at once, so I fill both. She does a lot of gardening and I don't, so if I haven't just cut my hedge or trimmed a tree, my garden bin gets filled with stuff from her garden.
So you might think. They've smashed the corner off two of mine. I actually saw one of them happen.
Dunno, but why shouldn't they? They're paid to do a job and they weren't doing it.
The council response is "Tough. You aren't recycling enough. Your problem."
Actually I was thinking of the main recycling bin. I wanted a bigger paper/card/plastic one.
How did they do it?
And who cares? If it breaks, they get you a new one.
Because it doesn't affect the person filming.
Round here they sell "Big Issue".
Originally all we could have was the red plastic insert in the larger blue bin (red for paper and card, blue for cans and plastic). I thought this was a daft idea and said so.
I discovered that they'd quietly introduced a full size red bin - just walk into the council depot with the insert, and come out with a full size bin. I am told you have to pay for them now (I would have incurred a delivery charge anyway if I'd not collected it).
We are allowed to bale up extra cardboard and leave it next to the bin, though.
They failed to fit it to the hoist correctly, and it twisted and half fell off. And they chuck the inserts across the road.
No, if it's broken you have to pay now. If it happens to me again, I'm taking the CCTV recording down there.
I wish mine would and so does my nieghbour as she pays to have hers cleaned. I don't. I can see my pin outsoide the house next door becaus eit has my house munber written on it as does my nieghbours.
but they aren't identical they have teh house numbers written on them, and some are silly enough to pay their own money for them to be cleaned, so they don't smell.
No I've never seen that sort of bin before.
Sounds like you have a very disorganised council.
Odd, as when I've seen them put bins on hoists, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. It's just a hook that lifts the bin up.
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