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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
I'm glad to see these draconian rules binned. I mean giving someone a criminal record for putting the wrong sacks out or leaving a wheelie bin out too long.  Sledgehammer to kill a butterfly comes to mind but typical of the control freakery that was prevelent in the last few years.
Same as giving unelected council pen pushers access to anti-terrorist laws to abuse. What madness was that?
Maybe we need a minister for common sense to dismantle all the stupid laws and regulations. |
I have to wholeheartedly agree.
My local council went from a weekly black bag collection and coloured boxes for recycling, which nobody knew when they were to be collected, to 2 huge wheelie bins, one for refuse and one for all dry recyclables collected fortnightly. They also supplied a tiny caddie for food waste that they said would be collected weekly. However they made absolutely no provision for the disabled, elderly or people unable to use wheelie bins due to lack of space, flats etc. They also provided no means of labelling the bins as to what address they belong to as other authorities seem to.
As a result because I could not use the system and despite twice weekly phone calls I had no refuse or recycling collected for 6 weeks. Eventually an occupational therapist got involved and I was issued with bags again
but I now have to live with a fortnightly food waste collection and a back garden full of superfluous wheelie bins.
As for fly tipping, IIRC it costs £12.00 per item to get bulky items, old domestic appliances, furniture ETC, carted off by the council. A bit expensive IMO but you ring up, give all the details and your CC number and wait and wait and wait and nothing ever happens.
The last thing I got disposed of was an old freezer that they finally collected after
3 years or so. It is little wonder that people turn to other contractors who purport to remove rubbish but in reality, probably fly tip it.
BTW and probably nothing to do with anything, but
my local extortionists are Tory. I guess the political leanings have nothing much to do with incompetent, self serving councillors and local council madness though.