Wheelie Bin story of the week

[Loz]

On my dinner at work I read the mail online, and I have noticed the ongoing trend of 'Wheelie Bin story of the week' A ridiculous, yet somehow amusing example of just how preposterously stupid this country has ended up.

I have used their search facility to share with you some of the headline bin stories about poor civilians and their plight to have their rubbish removed. If only other crimes were taken so seriously??

Father of four taken to court and fined ... because he overfilled his wheelie-bin by just four inches | Mail Online

Grandfather's fury as binmen refuse to walk 18 INCHES to collect his bin | Mail Online

Dustmen refuse to empty 'too-full' bin - despite it overflowing because they were on strike | Mail Online

100 households a day fined by bin police | Mail Online

Bin police force residents to hand over personal medical details | Mail Online

Frail pensioner told she must drag her wheelie bin HALF A MILE to get it emptied | Mail Online

Council refuses to empty pensioner's garden waste bin - because he put cabbage stalks in it | Mail Online

The bargain bin council refuses to empty | Mail Online

War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for 'crime' of putting two jars in wrong bin | Mail Online

New bin bag tax: Households to be charged for filling more than ONE sack | Mail Online

Man fined £75 for dumping his rubbish - in a litter bin | Mail Online

[ap0gee1978]

I'm just waiting 'til my back goes out from having to shift our fortnightly 50l glass / tin recycling boxes - they don't half get heavy. :( Then I'll be right on to the council for some payback on behalf of all the above!

[skodagirl1985]

Its so silly fine people for things like these. What has the country come to?

Bout time they spent more time and resources on worse things.

[Loz]

Tis quite funny that the new house we've been doing up is a corner semi, so we can put the bins out twice, once on each road!

[Jon TDI]

Don't get me started on recycling/refuse collection!!!

It really is getting beyond a joke!

[skodagirl1985]

I find all the reclycling malarky very confussing as to what get recycled and what can go in your normal dustbin.

I keep having check with my Mum what I can just toss in the normal bucket and what to recycle

[Loz]

Don't get me wrong, I think recycling is a good thing, but the stupid rules and stupid binmen surrounding the whole thing is just moronic.

[anewman]

And then they wonder why people fly tip

[tippo1983]

stop reading the mail, its full of ****

[KenONeill]

So the Daily Snail hasn't worked out just how much cr@p these people must be generating then!?

I live alone, but based on the rate it fills up at if I'm away on bin day, so it has to handle a complete month's rubbish, my bin would handle about 3 months without overflowing!!

[matt_theforce]

we're a family of 4 and can only afford to miss 1 bin collection otherwise it's overflowing and thats using all the recycling bins provided. But I'm not complaining as our bin men are good bunch of guys and are approachable should we need to throw out things that won't fit in the bin.

[m17rkj]

I think the Daily Mail produces more rubbish than anybody

Mark

[Loz]

stop reading the mail, its full of ****

I'm sorry, I forgot that it's up to everyone else what I choose to read

Personally I think the Sun is the one full of rubbish!

Anyway, this is a thread about Wheelie Bins, not my taste in lunchtime reading!

[expostmanpat]

which all reminds me of a joke:

Bin man ' Where's ya Bin?

Chinese Restranteur 'Blackpool'

Bin Man ' No, where's ya wheely Bin?'

Chinese restranteur 'Yah, I wheely bin to Blackpool'

I'll turn the lights off, shall I?

[Conshine]

I think the Daily Mail produces more rubbish than anybody

Mark

You couldn't wipe your ar*e with it as more **** would come off the paper

[simonsheil]

Personally I can fill the bin in a couple of months or a couple of days dependant upon what I am doing.

However, the matter remains that over zealous Hitler style council officials are not serving the public (this is their job by the way). Does it really make any difference if a few bins are slightly over full, no.

As for people producing too much, personally I produce very little, after all I dont have a plastic factory, it mostly comes down to packaging.

In america where local democracy actually works the matter would be swiftly sorted by the sacking of the town councils. However, our ever powerful non elected council officials carry on in their pointless empire building isolated from the what the public want.

[McSwanky]

I'm sorry, I forgot that it's up to everyone else what I choose to read

Personally I think the Sun is the one full of rubbish!

Anyway, this is a thread about Wheelie Bins, not my taste in lunchtime reading!

It is possible that more than one newspaper is full of tat........

I think it's fair to comment that the Daily Mail is of a certain 'leaning' considering all of the links in your original post are from said rag.

You might ask why they're wasting column inches on nonsense like this and not reporting on 'more important' stories

[Loz]

Exactly. Why do we pay council tax? That poor woman that was told to drag her bin half a mile down a hill for it to be emptied - she pays up just like everyone else. It's ridiculous.

[KenONeill]

I'm sorry, I forgot that it's up to everyone else what I choose to read

It's up to you what you choose to read, but that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to an opinion about its quality.

Personally I think the Sun is the one full of rubbish!

Yes, but that doesn't mean the Daily Snail isn't full of rubbish too!

Anyway, this is a thread about Wheelie Bins, not my taste in lunchtime reading!

Agreed.

[McSwanky]

In america where local democracy actually works the matter would be swiftly sorted by the sacking of the town councils. However, our ever powerful non elected council officials carry on in their pointless empire building isolated from the what the public want.

Doesn't your scenario above basically come down to the fact that the councillors that are elected by us aren't doing an effective enough job?

I'm not in the know, but I would find it hard to belive that an entire town council could be 'sacked.' Happy to be proved wrong though.

[Conshine]

We still have the weekly collections in Ashford. We don't have wheely bins, just the black bags and they do a round every 3 weeks and get all our recycling apart from plastic.

Just us two generate about a bag of rubbish a week and the rest is recycled, most of the waste we genarate is plastic and cat litter and poop.

You can still throw out as much as you like though, the binmen just take it.

We have 2 Bokashi Binsfor the kitchen food waste:

http://www.greengardener.co.uk/bokashi.htm

[Loz]

It's up to you what you choose to read, but that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to an opinion about its quality.

You may or may not have noticed I quote the person who told me to 'stop reading the mail'

It's only news articles, what does it matter? I've never read anything on there that has been reported significantly differently anywhere else.

Edited 13 August, 2008 by Loz

[KenONeill]

You may or may not have noticed I quote the parson who told me to 'stop reading the mail'

I hadn't noticed that you'd explicitly quoted them, or indeed that they'd taken holy orders! That said, I was agreeing with you that you have a right to read whatever you like, even if it is a piece of middle class, right wing, little Englander , and I therefore wish you wouldn't.

It's only news articles, what does it matter? I've never read anything on there that has been reported significantly differently anywhere else.

That's what worries me; not that newspapers have a political bias, but when people don't realise the fact, and doubly so when they all have the same one. If you can find a political story in the Snail , try reading the same one in the "Grauniad", and see if you see what I mean, ok?

[Loz]

I know they have 'political bias' but I only read it for 20 mins and I don't see it makes all that much difference.

Example - that Fritzl dude locks his daughter in the cellar for x amount of years - true or not true? reported differently on BBC news? Nope.

Anyway, my political views are not only private, but entirely up to me, now back to the f*cking bins for f*cks sake!

[KenONeill]

As I said, if you know their views, that doesn't worry me much. I didn't ask if you agreed with them after all!!