Bins Not Emptied For Over A Week Now ! Why ?

[Guinness Boy]

I find these days that, with recycling and composting, there's very little left to put in the regular bin. Takes a good three weeks for ours to fill up, so no problem if they don't come so often, especially in the winter when there isn't a big problem with smells and stuff. There are probably better ways to spend the Council tax IMO (education and social care for a start)

Straight out of the Green Party manifesto and complete nonsense. Why would anyone who doesn't have a garden (i.e. everyone in Hove and Brighton who has a non-garden flat) compost? Furthermore no-one has taken away the recycling either. We recycle loads and now have three boxes full to overflowing.

 

[Scarface]

I work with bin collections (not in Brighton so dont start!) and the amount of complaints we get that start with 'well i could drive my car ok on it' are rediculous! Some people seriously dont think that a 26 ton dustcart which would have to keep starting and stopping is any different to their car! The next best complaint is that they have paid for the service when council tax is a tax on your property not a payment for a council service.

 

[soistes]

Straight out of the Green Party manifesto and complete nonsense. Why would anyone who doesn't have a garden (i.e. everyone in Hove and Brighton who has a non-garden flat) compost? Furthermore no-one has taken away the recycling either. We recycle loads and now have three boxes full to overflowing.

Nothing to do with the Green party at all. I have no brief for them whatsoever and have never read their manifesto (never been interested in single issue political parties). I was just describing our own personal experience (admittedly a small household of three adults), so the aggressive critique is redundant in this case. I agree that not everyone can compost, although again (and only speaking of our personal experience) even if we put the compost stuff in the regular bin, it still wouldn't fill up for 2-3 weeks, because we don't chuck that much stuff away. The recycling is less of a problem -- yes it builds up if the bin collecters don't come, but it doesn't smell or anything. Anyway as others have noted on here there was an extremely good set of reasons for the collections being delayed this week, so the debate seems a bit meaningless really.

 

[Lush]

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[LE19]

I work with bin collections (not in Brighton so dont start!) and the amount of complaints we get that start with 'well i could drive my car ok on it' are rediculous! Some people seriously dont think that a 26 ton dustcart which would have to keep starting and stopping is any different to their car!

This. Last Friday I thought I'd do best to follow a bus up the frozen main road in my town, only to see it slide all over the place. Weight is no advantage, and I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be a passenger when it was going downhill!

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

I work with bin collections (not in Brighton so dont start!) and the amount of complaints we get that start with 'well i could drive my car ok on it' are rediculous! Some people seriously dont think that a 26 ton dustcart which would have to keep starting and stopping is any different to their car! The next best complaint is that they have paid for the service when council tax is a tax on your property not a payment for a council service.

You've got to understand, it's not an attack on how you do your job. It's the fundamental way that the entire country shuts down for a week when we have one day of snow.

My bins are full, I have no driveway, a coffee shop below me and nowhere to put my rubbish. The roads are completely clear!

 

[Woodchip]

You've got to understand, it's not an attack on how you do your job. It's the fundamental way that the entire country shuts down for a week when we have one day of snow.

My bins are full, I have no driveway, a coffee shop below me and nowhere to put my rubbish. The roads are completely clear!

In your street they may be clear but you're not the only one that has their bin collected. Bin wagons do a few more streets than yours.

 

[Scarface]

You've got to understand, it's not an attack on how you do your job. It's the fundamental way that the entire country shuts down for a week when we have one day of snow.

My bins are full, I have no driveway, a coffee shop below me and nowhere to put my rubbish. The roads are completely clear!

I've learnt not to take it personally over the years! In your circumstances it sounds as though you would be on a main road as your above a shop so unless its on a slope would have expected yours to be cleared.

The other problem though is if they genuinly couldnt get to you on your collection day and now the road is clear they still have their work to do each day plus the thousands of collections missed from previous days.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

In your street they may be clear but you're not the only one that has their bin collected. Bin wagons do a few more streets than yours.

No need to be sarcastic.

The whole of my area has been clear of snow pretty much since the day after the snow. I understand it must take a huge amount of planning, but just calling off all collections in a wider area (not sure if that's what happened tbh) seems silly. Get to the safe areas when you can, that way, when all of the snow is gone, you can send twice as many trucks to the places where collections have been skipped.

 

[piersa]

councils are not run like businesses and thus answer to nobody. If the bin companies were only paid piece work i can say with virtual certainty that the bins would have been collected.

 

[Nibble]

Up where I am (near Royal Sussex) they come pretty much every other day. The street bins never overflow and all seems good. Never had a problem except when they didn't come one day for our recycling se we just chucked it all in the street bins,all trundles down a conveyor for sorting anyway.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Same problem up here in the Midlands. Council say they have done main roads only although nobody has seen them. They cite Health and Safety for the guys on the ice....I have an over flowing bin and nobody knows when it will be emptied. It was not like that in the old days!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

councils are not run like businesses and thus answer to nobody. If the bin companies were only paid piece work i can say with virtual certainty that the bins would have been collected.

I may be wrong, but I thought that most councils now have their bin collections done by outside contractors, not by their own workforce.

The excellent service by Lewes District Council (which I referred to in post #15) is, I believe, provided by staff directly employed by the council.

 

[Scarface]

Same problem up here in the Midlands. Council say they have done main roads only although nobody has seen them. They cite Health and Safety for the guys on the ice....I have an over flowing bin and nobody knows when it will be emptied. It was not like that in the old days!

In the old days they would have gone out, fallen over, broken their leg and been off on sick pay for months.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Straight out of the Green Party manifesto and complete nonsense. Why would anyone who doesn't have a garden (i.e. everyone in Hove and Brighton who has a non-garden flat) compost? Furthermore no-one has taken away the recycling either. We recycle loads and now have three boxes full to overflowing.

You don't have to be a Green to be green ! As you can tell from my signature I don't like the Greens at all but I still recycle and compost as much as possible and like @soistes we could cope with a collection of the main rubbish every three weeks. If they did that though I would expect something in return such as green waste collections or weekly recycling collections.

 

[Woodchip]

Just a thought, but are the grit wagons not normally driven by the binmen? If that is the case still you can thank the binmen for your streets being clean.

 

[champion7]

All through the little bit of snow we had the roads have always been ok to drive on in the day especially with a lorry that weighs tons ! i live in the BN2 area has anyone else still got bins waiting to be emptied ? or does anyone no why ? if they dont come until there next scheduled day ( mine is Monday ) the bins will be overflowing with bin bags , will they pick up bags on the floor because in the past i have seen them refuse to do so , as this is a council tax charge this is not on !

I live in BN41 and have not had bins or recycling picked up since week ago wednesday,won't be able to wait to scheduled day.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Even your rubbish is rubbish.

 

[The Birdman]

I think a song coming, How does it go ,you look in dustbin and you think it's a treat in your Croydon slums?

 

[Guinness Boy]

You don't have to be a Green to be green ! As you can tell from my signature I don't like the Greens at all but I still recycle and compost as much as possible and like @soistes we could cope with a collection of the main rubbish every three weeks. If they did that though I would expect something in return such as green waste collections or weekly recycling collections.

I recycle and meal plan and I wouldn't vote Green with a gun to my head. But back to the point. The thread is about recent bin collections being affected by snow. Theerefore

A) what's the point in a sanctimonious post about composting in a thread about bin lorries driving through snow and
B) what's the point in a sanctimonious post about composting when it's pointless and impractical for over 50% of the City's population