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Today was wheelie bin day. I had to go out this morning. When I got back I went out to bring in the bin and it had been nicked. Phoned the council. They do not have any replacement bins available for at least 6 weeks! They will send me a chitty to fill in to request one.
What happens to my rubbish in the meanwhile I ask - put it in black bins bags they say. Oh great, a fortnight's worth of loose bins bags in the back yard to attract all manner of vermin. Nice rat bait that. Can you imagine them outside on bin day too getting ripped open and the bin men refusing to take them? They know darned well that wheelie bins get nicked. I know for a fact of one house where they blatantly put out their own and another one with a number painted on it which is nothing remotely like theirs and the bin men merrily empty both. Why don't they have a supply of spares for just such eventualities? It's rare they say. Oh no it flippin well isn't. :mad: |
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It seems to be happening quite often, why do people need to steal them?? I know I struggle with the ammount of rubbish I put out but I do recycle what I can so it manage. I know there are a few people with 2 wheelie bins so would guess that they have aquired there 2nd ones in the same way. Take it you have no idea where it has gone?? Want me to come and look in a few yards / gardens to see if I can spot it for you? :D
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They told me a 3 week wait earlier in the year. I filled the form in and so forth. It actually took 16 weeks (and several phone calls) for the new wheelie bin to arrive. You may be waiting some time Willow.
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SIXTEEN weeks! And they tried to fob me off on the phone saying no-one has ever had to wait before. I told them.... "I'm a member of AccyWeb. I KNOW they have!" :D
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They are pathetic, and the waffle they come out with!! I'd be ashamed if I had to act so thick. We had to ring up today. We fell behind while on our hols, so for the past few weeks, we have been behind with the refuse, so we have had at least 2 bags that won't fit in the bin, then when they empty it, them 2 bags go in the wheelie bin.... then, the next time, we have 2 loose bags again :rolleyes: So today we hears the bin men and Ginger went out and said " Don't suppose we can just throw these 2 bags in can we?? They won't fit in the wheelie bin and we are 2 bags behind every weeks, that have to be left in the garden and they could attract rats " BLANK LOOK..... "No sorry, not allowed...." and off they went :rolleyes: Rang up about it and told them about the holiday situation and the bags that were left out every weeks!! " sorry, we can't do anything about it ".......:rolleyes: Fluff off then you dim wits. Anyway.... I actually rang up for another recycling box cos mine was nicked, she said there is a back log, but she would send me a BLUE bag with handles on to replace my box, and she would order me a box... but it could take 3 weeks..... 3 weeks, yeah I was waiting 10 weeks for that box, and had to ring to see where it was!! It came 2 days later.... more like they had forgot :rolleyes: |
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Last week there were THREE blue bags in our garden. No white one though.
The whole system is a shambles. |
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we should all get 1 wheelie bin each which is emptied weekly , no blue bags no silly tubs etc
let convicts sepaerate the recycables at the tip;) that way no one will need to steal a wheelie bin as their rubbish will be gotten rid of regularly and quickly enough the people across from me hav 3 wheelie bins , i bet they arnt all meant to be theirs either |
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Rossendale have a blue wheelie bin where everything that can be recycled goes, ie glass, paper tin etc none of this bags and boxes nonsense.....excellent idea, i`m really into recycling but our system is a shambles.........:(
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I'm in favour of recycling but I do think that Hyndburn's version is all bells and whistles and very little to do with practicality.
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Taken from hyndburns website:
Unfortunately, there are still quite a number of residents leaving black sacks in the back streets. For improvements to be made in the cleanliness of your area, all household waste must be presented within the grey wheeled bin. Enforcement action will be taken against residents who do not present their waste in the wheeled bin. If you dump sacks in the back street, you can be served a notice under section 46 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 which can lead to fines of up to £1,000 . http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/sc...5&pageNumber=7 So willow if they dont replace it for 16 weeks - are you going to face fines up to £16,000? I know what i would do!!!! |
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Rossendale has a green bin for normal household waste, blue bin or a blue box for glass, plastic and tins etc, a brown bin for garden waste, and a either a white sack or a grey bin for paper.
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Go on...............I dare you...............:D |
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Some clueless bint across the back from me stole mine last week, even though it had my house number and street painted all over it; the numpty then left it in full view in her yard shielded only by a fence that is more hole than fence. I saw my bin and went a-knocking at her door, told her in no uncertain terms that I had come to repatriate my bin and then asked her if she wanted to open the gate or I would make my own way through it.
After a couple of attempts at the "I don't speak English and someone stole mine so I took this one " routine I got bored and set off for the fence; she soon opened the gate and me and the bin went home ! I will do the same next time too ! Bin larceny ! It's wrong and evil ! |
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reading this thread got me curious to know how many Accy-webbers use a shreader for their paperwork , (old bills, bank statements, personal mail etc.) I would never put anything out for collection with personal details on it , also if you do shread stuff where does it go ? in your paper sack or box , is it in a plastic bag ?
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I put it in my white sack along with unaddressed paper junk |
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I compost it.............:D
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That reminds me of an Allen Carr joke :D |
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http://www.ukwheeliebins.com/bin-colours.html |
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then they get altzimers and there screwed lol |
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" she was so goofy, I nearly lost a finger while happy slapping her " haha |
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http://www.identity-theft.org.uk/protect-yourself.html
Don't throw away entire bills, receipts, credit-or debit-card slips, bank statements or even unwanted post in your name. Destroy unwanted documents, preferably by using a shredder. Perhaps us oldies are the only ones with savings :p |
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willow
i told your better half to go down to Liberia street church, that's ware they keep the wheelie bins.and pick your own bin up. when u get your chit from them. |
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Some of the morons in today's society will steal your underwear and try to get the details off your knicker lastic.....:o |
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Are we sure they have some at Liberia Street? The woman on the phone said they've run out. Not surprising if people keep going around nicking them.
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ive had mine taken loads of times always end up with a different one so what i do is i just take someone elses ,why should i put my rubbish bags outside with no bin
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I know where there is a stack of bins. Perhaps he could get Peter to buy some? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7425934.stm |
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Got some big sticky numbers from the inside market to put on the bin lid. Not that it will really help much if it gets pinched. They are 99p per number, look quite decent when they are on.
Just thought I'd share that :D |
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Sticky numbers will peel off- better use white gloss paint (I did)
I am thinking of adding 'this bin is not red' |
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Will use paint when these things drop off ;)
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If you find anyone stealing your bin a whack with a 3 x 2 often reminds them that its not theirs:D
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I wonder if you will have Accringtons crest on it or Hyndburns? |
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this thread has just reminded me of one individuals idea of national pride
how proud of their country a person is when they put a huge saint georges cross sticker on their wheelie bin lol i passed it the other day in accy but cant remember where mind you the country is in the crapper so its actualy quite appropiate lol |
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I got told when they first gave you sthe wheelie bins not to put the number of your house on the outside of the bin - put it on the inside of the bin lid. Because of thieves - if on bin day they saw your bin still outside with the numbers on it then they knew which one no one was in - and could break in. If you put it on the inside of the bin lid then they would have to lift the bin lid to see.
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thieves will just open the lids anyway so what difference would it make? |
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I want someone to invent a jack-in-a-box mechanism for wheelie bins so that when a stranger lifts the lid, a big sign and fart noise will announce
NO DOG S**T HERE |
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We had our house number on in those stick on things but it didn't stop somebody nicking it. They'll have torn them off by now. Although I did like them better than the painted on numbers I am certainly going to paint the next one.
Just be my luck to get one with an 'Accrington and Districts' crest on when I do not support the name change. :rolleyes: |
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When the wheelie bins first came out my bin went on near enough the first week. Rang up council and they explained to me that i wasnt entitle to another bin cause there wasnt 7 living in the household. I went on to explain that it had been stolen, she didnt believe me. We were living in clayton at the time and we waited and waited and never got a replacement in the year we were there. We put the bin bags out every other week(nightmare) and disgusting. Where we are living now if we have an extra binbag the bin men take it but in some places over the borough i know they dont. Seems strange to take the spare bin bags from a terraced house and not the detached when they are paying so much more council tax.
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I have never met a more `Jobsworth` bunch than the `superior than anyone else` Hyndburn Bin Operatives..........Rearrange these words to make a well known saying...Old ,Rope, Money, For.
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It's not just the bins though is it? I had my white sack for the paper recycling nicked several months ago. Well I say nicked, but it could have blown away as they tend to just chuck them over the garden wall, and if your not in at that time then it's tough!!
I've been putting my cardboard/paper out in carrier bags and they still won't give me another white sack. It's like asking for gold!! |
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White and blue sacks are available from the Town Hall, if it's open when you get there and there is anybody about to serve you......... :rolleyes:
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I'm always calling in at the Town Hall for new sacks. They used to hook them through the gate but just chuck them on the path now and the blow away - mind you last time we ended up with 3 blue sacks so the wind must have been blowing our way for a change.
Latest on the wheelie bin front - I have received and filled in my document from HBC - not so much a chitty more of an interrogation sheet! Flippin nora! When did you last see your bin? What time did you put your bin out? What time did you attempt to bring it in? How many days since you last saw your bin? Have you searched for your bin? Have you asked neighbours if they have sen your bin? Are you sure you haven't got it up a corner and failed to notice it? Oh yes I am going to overlook a bloomin great wheelie bin! I even had to declare that to the best of my knowledge all the information was correct and if found to be incorrect I could be refused a bin. Sheesh! It's like the flippin gestapo. :rolleyes: Also they may not guarantee I get an unused bin. I may get a recycled one! :D |
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A few weeks ago when we were having a mad paper shredding day we filled up our white sack. I called into the reception at Scaithcliffe house and asked for a spare white sack. I was given one straight away no questions asked. |
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Ah but Forceten lives in Blackburn, not Hyndburn. Maybe they are stingier over there.
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That is definitely a lot of questions for the request of replacing a bin:rolleyes:
If they took it every week I am sure people would see less of a need to nick the wheelie bins cos they'd have enough room in their own bin |
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I felt like a suspect in an Agatha Christie novel "The Mysterious Disappearance of Willow's Wheelie Bin" - maybe they think I'm into wheelie bin smuggling as a sideline?
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Can't understand if anybody would take for use as an extra bin ? Surely they will not empty 2 bins will they ? Just seems like somebody who may have have their own bin lifted .. well, suppose that's re-cycling, in its lowest form. |
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Thing is Katex not all bins are collected from outside of the owner's property. Ours for instance ends up in a little huddle with the neighbours' bins and a couple from round the corner, so they can't really tell how many bins belong to where. But when I queried with the council the fact that I know one house has two bins, one of which did not originate round here, they said it wasn't up to the bin men to wonder if the bins belonged to that house or how many bins they had or were entitled to. It is just their job to empty them.
I also questioned if they could go a bin hunting with their chip tracking device and they said only if I spotted what I suspected to be our bin and then they could attempt to prove it! I ask you! How do you tell one wheelie bin from another? The only identifying marks ours had were the stick on numbers which have no doubt been pulled off by now. |
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I painted my number on after Mez's experience .. they pinched it from under her nose !! |
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The way I see it is that one person loses thier bin, (and I have seen the bin wagon devour a whole bin instead of emptying it), that person nicks another bin which isnt thiers etc etc.
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Probably too complicated for HBC though.
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Willow maybe you should look around Woodnook. Area council tonight reported that some yards have three wheelie bins! :D
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I wouldn't be able to prove one was ours though.
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Well whaddya know!
Today was wheelie bin day again. Last night Emzie went out the back street and what did she spy half way down there? OUR WHEELIE BIN - complete with stick on numbers still stuck on! Busman went down to investigate and it was there next to a bin which was overfull and the top not closing and yet our bin just had one bag in the bottom of it. So logic tells me that it had not been taken by the people whose bin it was next to or else they would have put their excess rubbish in it instead of leaving their own bin unshuttable. Anyway he brought it back up here and today we put our two black bags full of rubbish in it and it has been emptied - the minute the bin wagon went I was out there like a shot and brought it back in again. Have phoned the council and told them we no longer need a replacement to which I was told that's good because there aren't any. She also told me to paint the number on because stick on numbers can be removed. Painted numbers can be painted out too. There's a house which has two bins and one bin has two numbers on it. Yet this week they don't have that bin they have an entirely different bin. Numbers, painted or stuck on don't make a ha'porth of difference round here. It's just a case of get out there and grab it back as quick as you can. Not good for people who are working though is it? |
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get a knife and scratch the number on it then willow ;)
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I was thinking of doing something invisible but detectable when you shine a light on it. I've got some of that paint somewhere - just got visions of it eerily glowing in the backyard every night though :D
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At least you didn't get this guy collecting your bin Willow:-
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...men_jailed.php Always a silver lining somewhere ... :D |
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No he emptied mine instead katex. Mind you ive known him for years .... he grew up in rising bridge....... then again his wife has just been let out as well. |
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Forget the chip that's already in the bin, and pet's passports, there's obviously a market for tracking devices for wheelie bins.
(Goes off to patent the idea, before contacting Dragon's Den.):D |
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Well I have stick on numbers, of course they can be removed, as can paint. Think painting the number inside the bin was pointed out before but also that you would have to lift the lids on lots of bins to find your own.
Thought of perhaps branding my number into the bin with a soldering iron or some such like. Then again if some hard faced sod is going to steal it, they will, whether it’s numbered up or not. |
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hello , Ii am new , but to answer the stolen bin person, mine was stolen too and what happened ??? I had to BUY a new one , no replacements in Rossendale !!!!!
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Having to buy one when yours is stolen because you have to put it out on bin day for the bin men is absolutely ridiculous.Anyway I thought the council made a hoohah about it being their bin and that's why you can't take the chip out, so if it's theirs and it gets stolen how come you have to pay? They want it all ends up.
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For those of you that are still waiting for your wheelie bins, there is an atricle in the Citizen tonight that says there is a shortage on parts for them. Apparantly the company that make them had a fire.
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It's the company that makes the wheels that had the fire.
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so you can have a bin.... but not a wheelie bin?
would be like living in Burnley.... even the wheelie bins are on bricks ;) |
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No, you can't have a bin at all until the wheel makers are back in action again.
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The Observer says that Hyndburn has 300 bins to give out to those that need them.
As far as paying for a replacement, why did you? Like Willow said it is not your bin, it belongs to the Council. Well thats what they tell us over here anyway. How much did they charge you for your bin? |
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300 bins? So why was I told there weren't any? I am watching ours like a hawk from now on.
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