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Originally Posted by Sirius
They have another rule here as well and that is if your bin lid is open by more than 1 inch they refuse to empty it and charge you if they have to send a special vehicle out to empty it..  |
They used to refuse to take them here too, citing health and safety reasons. Even went as far as saying a binman was seriously hurt when some rubbish fell out of a bit that was overfilled. Yet when they changed to 2 weekly collections to save money, all the bins were massively overflowing but they decided it was now ok to have them overflowing and bin lids open. Every bin around here has been overflowing with open lids every week now since they changed to fortnightly yet they are happy to empty them and not issue fines...go figure
Fly tipping does increase and people will go as far as having one bag for paperwork/identifying information and another that can be dumped with no trail back to them. Unbelievable.