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We have a wheelie bin for general rubbish, which can include garden waste, but the bin must be pushed to the edge of your property. If it's on your drive they won't empty it. Then we have a blue wheelie bin for papers and they empty that every 4th Friday - same arrangements, it must be on the pavement. If you're like me and believe in re-cycling you flippin'-well hump your glass, plastic etc. to one of the village car parks where huge bins take up at least 6 parking spaces in each and the local yobs throw lighted fag-ends in them.

I don't tip the bin men, they're doing their paid job. I do mine and nobody tips me.

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TIPS?????? I would not pay the idle, feckless, incompetants with the holes out of washers.

A year ago they decided that I would not be allowed to have a wheelie bin because it was too much like hard work for them to wheel it the seven yards to the bin wagon. Instead, I was told that I would be given eight orange bags per month for my refuse, which I would have to "present at the kerbside for collection".

Which sounds fine in principle, but this does not take into account the barely literate halfwits employed to deliver the bags. Net result - there has been no delivery of orange bags for the last three months. On pointing out this dereliction of their duty to Cannon Street, I was told that the simple solution to the problem was to ask the delivery person for some bags. On informing the insufferably smug cow on the other end of the phone that, unlike the overwhelming majority of my neighbours, I actually worked for a living and so was not home when the bin men made their collections, I was told that there was not much else they could do.

If this is an example of "thirty years of service to the community", HBC has some damned funny ideas of what "Service" entails and it is no wonder that the borough is currently languishing as 51st most deprived in the bl**dy country!

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my mum has had that much hassle with the system and stuff not been collected or taken away etc she has ended up taking her rubbish to the tip each week herself using a friends car

i wont say elderly coz she can still dish out a good right hook :D

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My mothers seem to be full all the time and she is on her own. The way they colllect is so messed up people are filling up the bins of those who have very little in theirs.

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am i right in assuming the pick up rota will be altered over xmas without any notification of when they will be like they did last year..?

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That would come as no surprise..!

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Add to that the amount of time it will take to catch up then there is no merry time for New Year while waiting on them to sort it all out.

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Lets face it, it is about time we sacked all of the bin men and their employer's (the various local authorities). In their place we should install people who 1, Do the job properly. 2, Give a monkey's and 3, A council authority who can actually be held accountable more than just once every four or five years.

Failing that....... A BadWolf Dictatorship!

A sensible policies for a sensible Britain campaign!

Vote Bad Wolf.

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Before I give you my vote, Bad-Wolf, please let me know your bin-emptying policies, as follows:-

1. Will your bin men step one foot on my drive to get hold of my bin?
2. Will they put the empty bin back on my property and not in front of my next-door neighbour's or across the road?
3. Will they put the black sack that's been placed on top of the full bin into the lorry instead of throwing it on to the pavement?
4. Will the bin-lorry pull in to the side of the road instead of stopping in the middle for 10 minutes and preventing any traffic from passing?
5. Will your bin-men stop making sure that the top 6" of any full bin are spilled into the road, especially if they are particularly squishy and smelly?

If you can answer "yes" to all these questions you can be my Dictator. :)

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Knowing Hyndburn it will be a cardboard box!!

As for tips - there ain't a chance! We are told to put our blue boxes out for 7.30am so I put mine out at 7.25am as soon as I get up. Trouble is the wagon usually arrives at around 7.20!! Council is adamant they don't start until 7.30 but when I challenged one of the binmen about this one morning he said they'd just changed the start time to 7.24am.
Plonker :rolleyes:

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No tip from me either.
It's like saying "thank you for the mess you leave behind. we are so greatfull we have to lug the heavy bins and do half the work for you."
They get paid for all the work they only half do.

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This might be a daft question but if you know when the wagon arrives why do you put your box out after it has gone? Would it not make more sense to get up 10 minutes sooner and have it emptied?

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i wouldnt get up earlier especialy in winter

if people dont bend to please the council maybe they will realise it simply dosnt work and do somthing about it

so far they have us sorting out the rubbish,storeing it in our homes for 2 weeks and cleaning it before it even hits the bins all of which we pay council tax for the council to do , not us

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They must do it just to annoy folk. ;)

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If HBC want our boxes to be out by 7.30 then that is just what I do. Why should I be inconvenienced by their ineptitude to do their job properly and at the correct time??
My solution is to keep calling them up and getting somebody to come and empty it later (somebody once came in a hatchback!!) The fact that this has happened countless times makes you wonder if there is any communication between council departments. :confused: