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Posted by Anonymous to swanage view
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Wheelie bins
Mad MAD MAD!!!we live in a block of three appartments with 4 residents. Home from work last night and we have SIX wheelie bins delivered in the yard!!! We never normally get a refuse collection at all, so have to walk down the lane and put sacks in the main street. No green boxes yet..."you can put one bag of rubbish beside your wheeled bin at Christmas" What religious discrimination is that. What about other religions? Why don't they want us to recycle wrapping paper? What about MY birthday???
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Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 9/29/2005 11:55:14 AM
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Any problems, call PDC on 557279
This is just crazy. I have just been told by a Mrs Dutton in Environmental Services at PDC that the policy is to provide a single wheelie bin per household REGARDLESS of the number of people living there. So two adjacent flats, where one sleeps 6 and one 12, will get one bin each. It surely doesn't take great genius to work out that the larger household is likely to generate more rubbish than the smaller? Oh, I gather you can always appeal. We shall see where that leads.
It is totally farcical; it would be funny if we were not paying for all this paternalistic, hierarchical and unnecessary mismanagement by job’s worth’s.
You missed hypocritical, contrary and deceitful, and what’s the word for betraying the interests of the people you purport to represent? I was also going to say corrupt, but I’m still amassing evidence for that.
I await with a great deal of interest what will happen when the Sack starts to smell with rotting left overs?
First ring up the health people on PDC and enquire what they are going to do about it. Then await to see what transpires. If that smelly rubbish is not collected then the next step is the the Local Government ombudsman...Now that should be interesting.
Back 60 years ago we had our rubbish collected weekly. Is tbis supposed to be an advancement?
A very irate Dancing Ledge.
Every hundred yards and for each apartment block build a bin store with a large wheelie bin in it. Separate compartments for recyclables and waste. These get emptied every day. No more waste paper bins, or individual collections. Just take your rubbish to the communal wheelie in your street as often as you want.
I love that idea Nick. I live in Institute Road surrounded by industrial wheelies that get cleared daily. I often get the urge to drop a few of my sacks into them. That urge will get stronger with a two week wait.
My plan is now to train as a ninja and covertly use them at night.
Mr Royston Vasey
It would be nice if you could elect to opt out, get a rebate, then groups of neighbours could pay to have a communal bin and commercial style collection.
Has anyone seen the bottom of Bell Street? By the Globe Inn...The narrow pavements are covered in black wheelie bins. Not enough room for a Mum to get the pram round.
Now! I have this picture in my mind of a very official person at Purbeck District Council who is determined to have his way. Even if he wets his knickers with rage.
Jumping up and down, stamping his feet with tears of frustration running down his cheeks, ranting in half stifled sobs! I will make them have my wheelie bins...So there"
That is the picture I have in my mind......Anyone think I am right?
An even more irate.
Dancing Ledge.
Oh Ledgie, you'll have bad dreams if you continue to fixate on the PDC pratts like that. As we speak there's some clever crim in a 7.5 tonner driving here to nick all our wheelies and sell em back cheaper than the council will charge for a replacement. Peverilpen
Its a nice idea though Peverilpen.
I would add this.
To add to the earlier posting. This man would, as I said, be jumping up and down, sobbing, and crying out, They will have my wheelie bins, I should add "They will! They Will! so there!"
I dont think I emphasised the stamping of the foot, and the continued cries of anguish, similar to a naughty child that has had its toy taken away!
They will have my Wheelie bins, or I shall stamp my foot, again and again! So there!
The mind boggles.
Dancing Ledge.
Isn't there some bye law against obstructing the pavement?
re that last comment to do with number of people and bins, I couldn't find reference: could you post the url -- before someone deletes it!
Oh they'll come out and make an assessment all right. My experience, and that of others I have spoken to, is that someone came to look at the property, said it was inappropriate for wheelie bins (eg steps = health and safety reason to not have bins, or nowhere to keep a bin, or have other problems moving bin) --- then just came along and dumped wheelie bins on doorstep anyway. I know of at least four examples of this. [ But they don't take any notes so that may be one exlplanation for the confusion].
Poole collect waste weekly: and they've had longer experience of the wheelie bin set-up..perhaps they know something PDC have yet to learn:
http://www.poole.gov.uk/servicetitles.asp?id=229CC347320A42&title=Waste+Collection
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Refuse Collection and Disposal
* Bins are emptied on the same day every week, including bank holidays – Christmas collections are an exception
PDC now have a special section on the new scheme, which may answer many questions...
http://www.purbeck-dc.gov.uk/services/category.asp?strareano=22_44
Aren't these bins large - and industrial looking.
And the advice pack which comes with says if it starts to stink you can always get it professionally cleaned, wonder how much that'll cost, and stick an airfreshener to the inside of the lid.
Well, doesn't that all add to the cost as compared to what we now have.
So it isn't an extra £3.29 on the council tax each year. But a real cost of several times that, say £20 or so, all for an inferior and inconvenient third world standard service which few residents want or welcome.
So what is it with plastic bottles? PDC won't collect them because it is unecconomic to do so, but they urge us to take them to the recycling bank?
Who owns these new wheelie bins?
The question comes because they replace ordinary bins that we as residents had to buy ourselves.
The bits of paper with the new bins talks about "your bin".
Also if it needs replacing we'll have to buy a new one.
That must mean they are ours, right?
So how come the council has already agreed a set of rules and regs that say if we leave our bin out longer than we should on a regular basis - they'll take it off us.
That's theft!
Those very same rules also say they could impose a fine for the same "offence".
How can that be legally possible?
It's not the PDC's pavement and not the PDC's bin and they haven't bothered to tell us these rules and regs before issuing the loathsome bins so there's no legal basis for this whatsoever.
Barnacle says that because the collection are fortnightly there is now twice as much rubbish each visit, obviously. What they hadn't worked out is that the lorry is the same size so it has to make twice as many trips to Poole to empty! 5 or 6 journeys each 'Purbeck' collection day. Very environmentally friendly. The bin men now work from 6 am to 9pm and they are not happy at the hours but they do love the overtime pay. When operating in Poole the tip is so much closer, nobody thought it through for Purbeck and the travel logistics. If they had two lorries then the loaders could continue to work while lorry 1 empties, logical? I hope this gross mismanagement isn't reflected in the Council Tax.
lions led by donkeys
I noticed a torn black bin bag rotting nicely where it had been dumped behind the town hall the other day. The smell of things to come?
Latest Council Policy re Wheelie BinsLetter from council states "Council policy links wheelie bin provision to permanent residents not to visitors"Can the council really ignore the fact that visitors have rubbish? Can they really ignore the fact that maybe 10/12 people may rent a house/flats in the town and not allow this house/flat an extra bin just because there is only one registered owner? Seems theres going to be a lot of smelly rubbish laying around next summer.Oh no, I forgot. The holidaymakers are going to compost their rubbish!
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Posted by Anonymous to swanage view /2005/10/new-subject.html> at 10/27/2005 03:03:17 PM
re last post - can you give any more detail, perhaps copy and post letter, so facts are clear?
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