[dimtimjim]

Although I thought this was probably upsetting quite a few people, Chris' opening link rant about bin men did make me smile!

I have to say, they're not too bad around my way, but where I used to live, I was frought with the problems Chris was ranting about. Won't take this, won't do that, miss a week then refuse to take it following week as you're overloaded etc etc etc. As with Chris, I remember when I was a wee lad, the bin men would come up our drive, in the back gate, across the garden, down the path at the side of the house, collect the bin, all the way back out, empty bin, then return bin to its location outside our house. Looking back, maybe t'was taking the pi$$ a little bit, but it was 'the norm'.

[Yudster]

I live in a cul de sac with a primary school at the end (the non-dead end) of it. Round here the bin men "pull out" - that is they send someone round before the lorry gets here to grab everyone's bags and stuff and stack them at various key points along the road so the lorry only has to stop a few times. Unfortunately when they do this, because of the "only take certain types of stuff fortnightly" rules, there are always far to many bags to make this viable in our little street, and they end up with bags completely blocking the footpaths. Its a little, narrow, twisty road - can you imagine the cars at School Run time? And inevitably the many kids who actually live in the street are having to walk in and out of the road to get to school to avoid the piles of bin bags - and dice with death in the Mum-Traffic. Its * DANGEROUS.

Anyway, never one to moan and do nothing, I complained to the council. Things improved for a couple of weeks, but how bad it gets seems to depend on which crew is doing our route. I swear some of them do it on purpose. Bastards.

[MK Chris]

We're lucky, we have recycling and rubbish collected every week. I take our bags down to the roadside though.

[Munki Bhoy]

We're finally getting the blue recycling bins at the start of November. Green regular rubbish bins will drop to fortnightly. About time I say.

My mum got her blue bin taken off her because the council refused to send the binmen in to pick them up. Something to do with the car park having cars in it. That's why this country sucks so hard.

[Johnny 1989]

Ours coming weekley for household rubbish & fortnightly for recycling. We have recycling boxes of which they come round, empty them & then throw them back in the front garden which means all the clips are broken on the lids However the LB Redbridge do let you order replacement lids, obviously know what their bin men are like then.

[Yudster]

We have general rubbish weekly and different recycling on a fortnightly rota. As everyone always has four times as much plastic recycling as anything else, every other week is much worse, bith in terms of having to find somewhere in the house to store sacks and sacks of plastic for two weeks and then having to negotiate the bags in the street when they get pulled out. We also have garden sacks which they empty and throw into the road to get blown around and cause accidents. My neighbour has stolen all mine and the council refuse to replace them.

[MK Chris]

Ours coming weekley for household rubbish & fortnightly for recycling.

That doesn't sound like a council that wants to encourage recycling...

We have a blue box for glass and pink refuse-type sacks for everything else. I think our recycling policy is quite good, I just wish my dad would learn to use it rather than leaving his sodding rubbish on the * side.

[Yudster]

Put his rubbish in his room, preferably in the middle of his bed. He'll soon learn.

[Zoot]

Our recycling gets picked up once a fortnight, but, as I found out the first week we moved there, if we find the box is overflowing and we put half the bottles and cans in a bag and put the bag ontop of the box, neither the bag or box will get taken.

[Yudster]

Ah who are we all kidding anyway - none of our "recycling" is actually recycled, or if any of it is its only a tiny proportion. Most of it is getting shipped out as return freight in Chinese container ships, and ending up in Chinese landfill.

[MK Chris]

Put his rubbish in his room, preferably in the middle of his bed. He'll soon learn.

That is a very good idea.

[jt78963]

We get weekly pick ups. Got the green wheelie bins for general rubbish, blue wheelie bins for recycling and a brown wheelie bin for garden waste. We used to have the little black boxes but they didn't hold enough. The new blue bin has this shitty little box in it for the glass, and you just drop everything else in. As the garden only has a bin space for 1 bin, the other 2 usually get dumped on the path.

Edit: While we're on the topic, I got really annoyed the other night when watching Wife Swap USA (sad). The new wife was trying to get the husband to recycle, but because she was Paigan he just laughed at her. Have they never heard of recycling over there? Imagine how much energy could be saved if a country like the USA recycled.

[Yudster]

The American middle classes lead the world in domestic recycling, have done for about twenty years.

[Candyman]

What is this Bin man you talk of, here in Leeds that name seems to be name of a time long past, please tell me more about these bin men you speak of!

[Yudster]

Are you attempting to suggest that there is no refuse collection service in Leeds?

[catherine]

Ours coming weekley for household rubbish & fortnightly for recycling.

That doesn't sound like a council that wants to encourage recycling...

We have a blue box for glass and pink refuse-type sacks for everything else. I think our recycling policy is quite good, I just wish my dad would learn to use it rather than leaving his sodding rubbish on the * side.

Like you clean it up.


Our rubbish system is good. Black bags for general rubbish, pink for recycling and blue box for glass and they collect weekly. In our road though everyone puts their rubbish in one spot of the road so they wouldn't be able to tell which one belongs to which house anyway, we have a different blue box every week.

[Candyman]

There has been no refuge collections for most of Leeds for nearly two months due to a strike and could go on till Christmas, so not good.

[Yudster]

Refuge collections? Don't know about them, but my nephew who lives in Leeds hasn't noticed a problem with the refuse collections. Mind you, he IS a student.....

[McGuinness-89]

In my opinion,you're all talking rubbish.

[Yudster]

Absolute garbage, I quite agree.

[Nicola_Red]

I walk into my hallway and tip my rubbish into the garbage chute and that's the last I see of it. The only time it causes any issues is when someone blocks the chute with a pizza box, Joey from Friends-style.

[MK Chris]

garbage chute

Then do you leave your apartment and get on to the sidewalk, on route to your automobile, where you put your things in the trunk, pop the hood and check the oil, get in and put your foot on the gas?

[dimtimjim]

Put his rubbish in his room, preferably in the middle of his bed. He'll soon learn.

That is a very good idea.

Its what I do with the kids.... inside the pillow case is the best. Saves beating them!

[Yudster]

garbage chute

Then do you leave your apartment and get on to the sidewalk, on route to your automobile, where you put your things in the trunk, pop the hood and check the oil, get in and put your foot on the gas?

My thoughts exactly!

[mick howes]

evrything Chris said was so true, and more. In our area, if the bin lid isn't closed, they take out a bag until it can be, then they empty the bin, leaving the removed bag on the ground! Totally pathetic!!

As for recylcing, a farce, our council wont accept:
Egg boxes
Cereal boxes
Cardboard thicker than thin packaging
Milk cartons
Any plastics
Any waxed type card (eg cat food boxes)

And the recycle box is about the size of a large shoe box!!