[Margaret Pilkington]

I spend quite a bit of time in Australia and they have the same rules and regulations over there......such as, if the lid of the wheelie bin is not closed properly it isn't emptied....deemed as overfull. They recycle too and the garbage guys are just asawkward over there... if anything is in the wrong coloured bin it doesn't get emptied and then if you take the stuff that the binmen didn't collect to the tip yourself you are charged $10(about £4). It isnt as if the binmen over there have any lifting to do at all, it is all automated and there are marks outside the houses where the bins must be placed or the wagon will not pick them up. This is in Melbourne, I don't know if it is the same in other parts. It does seem to be a universal gripe.