Bins!

Gramaisc

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Down our road biffa would get my bin from the front yard and empty it when I forgot to put it on the pavement. Veolia don't. Biffa used to put the bins back near our houses. Veolia abandon them wherever they fancy :(
It may depend on the team that serve you, perhaps.

I found, after the changeover, that it became difficult to tell if they had been collected, as they were replaced almost exactly as we out them out.

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staffordjas

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Down our road biffa would get my bin from the front yard and empty it when I forgot to put it on the pavement. Veolia don't. Biffa used to put the bins back near our houses. Veolia abandon them wherever they fancy :(
I was at sons house in Worcester last year( where they have to pay for the garden rubbish collections). All the household rubbish bins down the road were placed outside , but inside the gates of the properties . I was surprised when their bin men pulled them down the steps from the properties and then back up the steps to inside the gardens.

And all done at a fantastic speed!

Here on Wildwood it depends which crew are on that week. Some place all 5 bins back where they were put out up the top (and down the side ) of the shared driveway. Some leave them on the pavement blocking the entrance to all 5 properties.
 

Tumble weed

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Tbh the bin men these days seem to do the absolute bare minimum.

There's been a bin lid lying on the ground next to the communal bin area for weeks, now I can only assume the bin got damaged on collection anyway, so why must they require you to put the bin lid in their bin before they collect it.... Surely any sensible non jobsworth would have thrown it in the collection lorry.
 

ATJ

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If the bin men are managed like anything else these days they won't have the scope to make decisions. They'll be tracked on the rounds, their stops will be timed, they'll have quotas to meet and any anomalies like broken bins will have to be noted and dealt with separately instead of in the moment because of said quotas.
It's a job I wouldn't like and I'm grateful there are people out there doing it. I've had no problems since the service switched and I think the recycling in our area is easy and convenient - especially compared to areas with a zillion different recycling bins each.
 

kyoto49

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Where my sister lives in London they still have black bags for their rubbish. Rats and foxes adore this bounty and the rodent chewed split bags then spew their contents all over the road when the bin men throw then in to their truck. It really is quite disgusting having various rotting food left overs all over the pavements. On this one issue our council is doing quite well in comparison! Backward on most other things mind!
 

Gramaisc

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Where my sister lives in London they still have black bags for their rubbish. Rats and foxes adore this bounty and the rodent chewed split bags then spew their contents all over the road when the bin men throw then in to their truck. It really is quite disgusting having various rotting food left overs all over the pavements. On this one issue our council is doing quite well in comparison! Backward on most other things mind!
Our bin arrangements are really rather good, taken in a national context.

When my aunt lived in London, not only was she subject to the bag situation, but she had to buy her own bags for them to throw away every week.

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ATJ

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It's one of the things I find strangest whenever I visit Covent Garden, that the stores and bars just leave bags of rubbish in the middle of the footpath for collection. This is a tourist area in a major city where people walk day and night and they can't have communal street bins instead of covering the paths with shit?

Locally, Oldbury only switched to wheelie bins in the last few years.
 

Gramaisc

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It's one of the things I find strangest whenever I visit Covent Garden, that the stores and bars just leave bags of rubbish in the middle of the footpath for collection. This is a tourist area in a major city where people walk day and night and they can't have communal street bins instead of covering the paths with shit?
I suspect that the issue there is that they are charged individually for their waste and thus it needs to be identifiably theirs.

There is probably a perceived danger that a communal system, like most communal things here, would be abused.
 

kyoto49

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It's one of the things I find strangest whenever I visit Covent Garden, that the stores and bars just leave bags of rubbish in the middle of the footpath for collection. This is a tourist area in a major city where people walk day and night and they can't have communal street bins instead of covering the paths with shit?

Locally, Oldbury only switched to wheelie bins in the last few years.


This this and this. Every time I go to London I see piles of rubbish in bin liners on almost every street. It's disgusting and as soon as a pile starts every one adds to it. I just don't understand how this is seen as a sensible rubbish situation. Filth everywhere :(
 
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Noah

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South Staffs gets slightly complicated, this is a much simplified version of who does what. Some is two stage, batteries & WEEE are put in plastic bags on top of the grey (non-recyclable waste) bins, collected and passed on to Sims or Silver Lining as appropriate. In fact I suspect that it is all collected by Biffa and passed on to the appropriate company as listed

Green waste Simpro Ltd

Textiles (banks) JMP Wilcox Company Ltd

Books (banks) JMP Wilcox Company Ltd

Recycling (kerbside) Biffa G S Environmental Limited

Rejected material (kerbside) Biffa G S Environmental Limited

WEEE (kerbside) Sims Group UK Ltd

Batteries (kerbside) Silver Lining Industries Ltd (T/A WasteCare)

Street sweepings Sita Wastecare Ltd

Litter Veolia ES Staffordshire Limited

Domestic waste Veolia ES Staffordshire Limited

Clinical SRCL Ltd

Scrap metal Hodsons Bloxwich Ltd

Dead animals Rick Strain and Sons Ltd

Fly tipping Biffa Waste Services Ltd

Fly tipping Veolia ES Staffordshire Limited

Tyres (fly tipping) D M E Tyres Ltd
 

Cue

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Expect bin collection issues this week, just watched one being towed (presumably broken down)

Can’t imagine reserve lorries is something they have, that would be far too sensible
 

Gramaisc

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Almost my entire street put them out on Wednesday night - I left mine in, but somebody put that out for me...

I keep the calendar under the hall lightswitch.
 
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