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Rubbish - again!
Hmmmm. We have wheelie bins and we have recycling bags/sacks/boxes/bins. The wheelie bins are emptied once a fortnight and the other stuff is collected on the alternate weeks. So far so good.
If we have more rubbish than will fit in a wheelie bin we are not supposed to put extra bags out. We are only supposed to "generate" enough rubbish so that our wheelie bin lid will close.
Our wheelie bin was emptied last Wednesday. We have just had a leaflet to say that the new rubbish calendar starts this month and that our recycling will be collected on the 22nd and the wheelie bin will be emptied on the 29th. That's 3 weeks since the last wheelie bin collection.
Now bearing in mind that we must not overfill the bin and we must not generate any extra bags, and bearing in mind that if we deposit any domestic litter in a public bin we may be committing an offence, just how are we supposed to get 3 weeks worth of household waste (non-recyclable) into a two week capacity bin that we already struggle with?
OK it's (hopefully) only a one-off but it's going to have a knock on effect if we have to store the surplus until the following fortnight.
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