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Sex God
Quote by kentswingers777
Well if they are coming anyway, why not kill two birds with one stone, and collect the bloody lot??
Or is that too complicated for the muppets at town halls?
Because they'd need to run twice as many trucks, one for waste going to land-fill, one for recycling?
N x x x ;)
Quote by neilinleeds
Well if they are coming anyway, why not kill two birds with one stone, and collect the bloody lot??
Or is that too complicated for the muppets at town halls?
Because they'd need to run twice as many trucks, one for waste going to land-fill, one for recycling?
N x x x ;)
Rumour has it that it all ends up in the same hole Neil.
Orgasminator
We have weekly collections for household and monthly collections for recycling stuff. And we got some right fit looking binmen too :smitten:
Quote by P1ayMate
We have weekly collection, one week its ordinary house hold waste and the other recycling. Still a weekly collection.
I think the point being made is that household rubbish should and could be collected each week, not leaving the household rubbish for two weeks where it is allowed to fester and be subject to attacks from the local wildlife (including drunks who pull the bins over "for a bit of fun"!)
The recyclables here are bagged and put out fortnightly - so in that week there are two collections on different days.
Quote by neilinleeds
Because they'd need to run twice as many trucks, one for waste going to land-fill, one for recycling? icon_
When we recently stayed in the UK for 7 weeks, I was amazed at the LA arrangements for waste collection where household rubbish was collected every two weeks.
On the non-household rubbish collection week, they made 3 separate collections on the same day for (1) "the Brown bin" - garden waste, then later another for (2) "the green bin" - collection of glass and then later still, the third visit for recyclables such as plastic and paper in plastic sacks.
Now, will some clever person please explain to me how they are saving the planet and reducing carbon footprints by running a huge diesel guzzling dustcart 3 times in one day over the same territory?
The small front gardens in most of the housing areas were taken up with these recycling receptacles which, for most of the day after collection - in some cases for many days after - where left untidily littering the streets where the council operatives had dumped them in their haste to meet targets. No wonder people no longer have a pride in their local area!
Sex God
We are luky here as we still have a proper weekly refuse collection, combined with a fortnightly recycling collection 
Sex God
Quote by Kaznkev
We have weekly collection, one week its ordinary house hold waste and the other recycling. Still a weekly collection.
I think the point being made is that household rubbish should and could be collected each week, not leaving the household rubbish for two weeks where it is allowed to fester and be subject to attacks from the local wildlife (including drunks who pull the bins over "for a bit of fun"!)
The recyclables here are bagged and put out fortnightly - so in that week there are two collections on different days.
Quote by neilinleeds
Because they'd need to run twice as many trucks, one for waste going to land-fill, one for recycling? icon_
When we recently stayed in the UK for 7 weeks, I was amazed at the LA arrangements for waste collection where household rubbish was collected every two weeks.
On the non-household rubbish collection week, they made 3 separate collections on the same day for (1) "the Brown bin" - garden waste, then later another for (2) "the green bin" - collection of glass and then later still, the third visit for recyclables such as plastic and paper in plastic sacks.
Now, will some clever person please explain to me how they are saving the planet and reducing carbon footprints by running a huge diesel guzzling dustcart 3 times in one day over the same territory?
Because they are going to different destinations,we cannot just keep crating more and more landfill are "saving the planet "by recycling and composting,whatever might be claimed about them all going to the same landfill.
The small front gardens in most of the housing areas were taken up with these recycling receptacles which, for most of the day after collection - in some cases for many days after - where left untidily littering the streets where the council operatives had dumped them in their haste to meet targets. No wonder people no longer have a pride in their local area!
Cant se ehow its the councils fault that some people are unwilling to keep their bins tidy after they have been emptied?
Now when chatting to my cousin,who is half french her mum described you rsystem,it does seem a lot better than most that hits the root of the problem as far as i am the governemnt over here had enforced best practice it would have been accused of the nanny we have all different schemes rather than the best ones being copied.
Telling us we can only drink a sertain amount of alcohol at home is the nanny state. Emptying bins weekly is sensible
Sex God
oddly bexley borough council collect's rubbish for 5 other councils all those other council's get weekly rubbish collection and fortnightly recycling collection 
All other matters aside I think the frequent collection of food waste in particular is pretty important and once a fortnight just dont hack it.
That said if we all learnt some simple waste management techniques (such as double bagging meat waste), a lot of the obvious problems would be avoided.
That said if we all learnt some simple waste management techniques (such as double bagging meat waste), a lot of the obvious problems would be avoided.
Sex God
Quote by kentswingers777
Bloody lovely they are.
Wonderful for fishing... do they have a system hierarchy within the community
Sex God
Quote by Bluefish2009
Bloody lovely they are.
Wonderful for fishing... do they have a system hierarchy within the community
an effective treatment for gangrene too :lol:
Sex God
Quote by Lizaleanrob
Bloody lovely they are.
Wonderful for fishing... do they have a system hierarchy within the community
an effective treatment for gangrene too :lol:
Oh yes, forgotten that
Quote by Kaznkev
Cant se ehow its the councils fault that some people are unwilling to keep their bins tidy after they have been emptied?
I didn't necessarily say it was the Council's fault except in so far as to say that Council employees, maybe because of time constraints under bonus schemes, seem not to exercise care in the replacement of the bins after they have been emptied. My observation was that they were manhandled (should that be person handled) off the lifting forks and virtually dumped in the road side haphazardly. Despite what others here say in other threads, there is a significant proportion of the UK population who do actually go to work and are so employed when the bin man (bin person) comes to call. They may not get home till late, by which time passing traffic has collided with the bin or its poor positioning has been exacerbated by others passing by.
Multi-tenanted buildings may not have a person responsible for the bin and so, in effect, its no-ones responsibility and therefore no-one really cares as it must be someone else's job, if you get my drift.
Hence the comment about lack of pride.
Quote by kentswingers777
Well if they are coming anyway, why not kill two birds with one stone, and collect the bloody lot??
Or is that too complicated for the muppets at town halls?
Because they'd need to run twice as many trucks, one for waste going to land-fill, one for recycling?
N x x x ;)
Rumour has it that it all ends up in the same hole Neil.
Rumour?
Rumour?
Go on, you can do better than that, find a link :-)
Sex God
Quote by awayman
Well if they are coming anyway, why not kill two birds with one stone, and collect the bloody lot??
Or is that too complicated for the muppets at town halls?
Because they'd need to run twice as many trucks, one for waste going to land-fill, one for recycling?
N x x x ;)
Rumour has it that it all ends up in the same hole Neil.
Rumour?
Rumour?
Go on, you can do better than that, find a link :-)
if you insist
or this
i wonder if they could be fined for failing to recycle
Sex God
tasty 
Sex God
Quote by Lizaleanrob
Well if they are coming anyway, why not kill two birds with one stone, and collect the bloody lot??
Or is that too complicated for the muppets at town halls?
Because they'd need to run twice as many trucks, one for waste going to land-fill, one for recycling?
N x x x ;)
Rumour has it that it all ends up in the same hole Neil.
Rumour?
Rumour?
Go on, you can do better than that, find a link :-)
if you insist
or this
i wonder if they could be fined for failing to recycle
That is blooming outrageous
Sex God
Quote by kentswingers777
That is blooming outrageous
Yes Blue very and probably not as uncommon as you would think.
I did hear about this in England but as yet cannot find the link, though am sure me old mate Rob will help me.
The time and trouble separating this into different sections, you think your doing the best for your environment and then you discover this kind of thing! Makes you want to spit!
Sex God
i think this is more scary regarding recycling problem
Quote by Bluefish2009
That is blooming outrageous
Yes Blue very and probably not as uncommon as you would think.
I did hear about this in England but as yet cannot find the link, though am sure me old mate Rob will help me.
The time and trouble separating this into different sections, you think your doing the best for your environment and then you discover this kind of thing! Makes you want to spit!
That'll be an instant on the spot fine of £90 please, 2 years in jail and you'll have to be on the DNA register for life so we can check every spital sample found in your locale against the database.
Sex God
hardly the nearest land fill ben (india and africa )
but i do see your point its not our country so it doesn't matter (is your point i believe )
but i do see your point its not our country so it doesn't matter (is your point i believe )
Sex God
Quote by Lizaleanrob
hardly the nearest land fill ben (india and africa )
but i do see your point its not our country so it doesn't matter (is your point i believe )
And I thought food miles were a problem!
