It must be time for recycle bins
 

After seeing the mess on Whalley Road I think it's about time recycle wheelie bins where used, it looks like a tip wagon has been left open. there is cans, bottle's and bags all over the place.

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It is an absolute disgrace along there, but what Numpty puts out a bag full of plastic bottles and doesn't secure the neck of the bag?......a spring clip clothes peg keeps it all inside.

It makes Clayton look like a tip.....and I hate it!

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To be fair, I have seen closed bags just getting run over by the car's and blue tubs getting blown away today.

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the blue boxes should have lids......the blue bags we close with a spring peg......and even on the windiest day we have had no spillage.....and OK, we live off the main road so our re-cycling is less at risk from being run over........there has to be a better way that what is being used at present.

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You can get lids for the blue boxes......just ring the council and they should supply you with one.

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we've used a recycle wheelie bin in Blackburn for well over 12 months now....we have a red wheelie bin for normal household waste, a big black wheelie bin for EVERYTHING recyclable and a brown wheelie bin for garden waste

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Yes, I went up Whalley Road in Clayton yesterday, lots of blue/white bags flying around. Not always the problem before collection though ... after they have emptied them, and not secured them in anyway.

Down my way, they put them under the upturned blue boxes .. seems to work, but no guarentee, the boxes are very light.

I put my cardboard bits in a (charity) bag .. and anchor with a brick.

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I had to get a new blue bag and it fastens wioth velcro at the top. Just call into the town hall, Tourist Information and ask for one.

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Eeew yes, Bernie ... mine has too, and it grips like a dog with a bone.

Velcro has what is known as female and male sides ... LOL. The male side is the harder side with the hooks, female being the softer of course... :)

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i always thought you had a recycle bin in hyndburn. I always have had a recycle bin right from the start - ours is blue, green for everything else, brown for garden and some in rossendale have a grey bin for newspapers otherwise we have a white sack for paper. Some places in rossendale though have a blue box instead of a bin if there house isnt suitable for a bin as in if there isnt room for a bin ...

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we got next to sod all in hyndburn, daughter lives under Bury Council, they got 3 wheelies.:rolleyes:

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thats LCC for you

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Hyndburns recycling set up is utter crap.................i take everything to the tip myself.......One wheelie bin for all i say.

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so how come rossendale has recycling wheelie bins? :rolleyes:

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ask graham:D

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Why, is he a bin man now? :confused:

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Bins not been emptied for 4 weeks, this lot was left still full.....

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I understand that bins which are overfilled so that lids wont shut, don't get emptied

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thing is if aint emptied after 2 weeks, where are folk supposed to put garbage? could be reason why overfilled?

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Over here in Preston , you have to separate glass , tin cans , paper , cardboard . that's why its not been emptied lynx1, you have too get you wine bottles out from your beer -cans .

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Everything gets seperated on here........all the bins we have were stuffed full with bottles and cans and everything else which we recycle, there was also carry bags full on the floor, they were all taken...except for the ones I took the pics of.

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Question about your re-cycling schemes .......where do you put the stuff , in the front of your houses or in the back streets ?, can understand semis and detached houses with gardens and no 'back alleys' using the front, but dont the bin wagons still come down the backs behind terraced streets ?
thanks

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NO in terraced they come to front cos the wagons too bloody big fer the backs, meaning ya have to carry a soggy bag o cans n box of bottles through yer house dripping oer the carpets, then they wonder why folk cannot be bothered to vote.:rolleyes::(

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You think you have problems - I have to cart all my waste through my flat, down a flight of 13 steps before I even reach the bin:(
The bins then have to be wheeled to the car park at the end of the block.

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thats a bitch also, at least its dry though ya cant leave the bag of cans etc n bottle box in the house though.:( this lot couldn't organise a pish up in a brewry.:rolleyes:

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Easy to understand now why folks complain about the streets looking a mess .
Its not like back streets are unique to Accrington so you'd think someone with half a brain would be able to design 'smaller' re-cycle/bin wagons capable of ftting down them ........wait a minute ...didn't the bin wagons once fit down (95%) of all back streets. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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yeh bin wagon still gets down the backs "just" but apparently the recycle wagon is too big.:rolleyes:least that was the drivel they gave me when i bitched about it.

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Well steely as the clown that designed accys wonderfully pathetic Traffic System, does not drive, by all accounts, that will give ya some idea of the calibre of ******* employed to sort the welfare of our citizens out.:rolleyes:

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seem to remember my Dad complaining about some local councillor/clown with a fixation about traffic, think he was an Arroder

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Where I live we have communial bin area, for 12 flats.....but there are 24 flats on the court and sometimes we get the others using our bin area, which really annoys me ( not what I wanted to say, but I think I would get a slap next time mick sees me ).....so in effect I'm not cleaning up my rubbish but everyone elses', now do you see why I am so hacked off:(

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ive got my bins at the back door .. and they come and collect em and take em to the bin wagon, empty em and then return them to the back door. im on the assisted scheme .. then again im in rossendale not in hyndburn.:D

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The wheelie bins are ok but the 2 weeks wait for them to be emptied is awful especially when you have a large household!!!

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there are 5 of us and we never have a problem

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only cos ya don't eat.:D

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Its probable the opposite cashy, they eat everything:D

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bin went out today and it had loads of room in it, enough for a couple of brake disks, 2 rear springs and a suspension lower arm and still had space left.
All that is without whacking it down with a spade, I can get twice as much in when I do that :D

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Wheelie bins here for general rubbish - once a week, left within 1 metre of the road and a 1 man vehicle comes and automatically picks it up, empties it into the lorry and then deposits it back - the driver never leaves his cab.
Plastics and cans are into yellow bags which you deposit in large wire baskets which are pretty well distributed around and glass goes into bottle banks which are in all supermarket car parks and at the rubbish dump along with all the other disposal skips - building material, metal, cardboard, oil, general and garden waste.
Works fine here, street cleaners in the towns, no rubbish lying around, but probably different in the big cities.

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HBC has never been proactive or forward thinking. I can't fault the service here in Bolton. We have 4 wheelies. General rubbish still gets collected weekly and the only time it fails is when I forget to put it out! All the others go fortnightly with minimal segregation. Card / paper in one, tins plastics and glass in another, compostibles in t'other. Simples x