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Hyndburn's bins make the national press.

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Families' anger as bins go unemptied for 3 weeks

Still, all publicity is good publicity, as long as it's not the Duke of Kent reading the Daily Express, because we know to our cost, he doesn't know where Hyndburn is anyway.

:D

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Anyone know a link to when Christmas tree collections are supposed to be?

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Remove the Angel hair from around your baubles, and then store the tree in a cool dark place until Whit Sunday, when there should be no further threat of ice, and they will be collected and turned into a mulch for the flower towers.

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Neil if you either email Hyndburn BC on [email protected] or ring 01254 388111 or fax 01254 392597 you should be able to get more information.

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Thanks, I will do that

Just heard some unhappy ladies talking about the screwed up bin collections while stop in a shop in town.

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This is the latest update on bin collection - received at 8.39am.

Also I have just come back from a funeral in Clayton and there was a recycling wagon driving up Whalley Road.

Further to yesterday's update;

I should have confirmed everyone that we have also deployed hand sweepers to the main townships this morning - emptying litter bins and picking up any litter were possible.

Because recycling crews will be unable to access everywhere today, once they have completed where they can, they will be going back to those recycling collections from any 'missed' areas. You can now confirm to these residents to leave out any containers that have already been presented and we will do our upmost to empty them over the coming week.

I am please to say that all staff are assisting each other in clearing waste off the streets as quickly as possible and this includes staff from Parks and Open who are helping with recycling collections.

Please thank residents for their understanding and confirm that we have deployed every available member of staff to pull back waste collections.

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Glad to say bins emptied today on New Lane thank god for that maybe we will get back to normal now .

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Nice to know where the priorities are :rolleyes:

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Peter Britcliffe looks after us Ossy residents, mine was emptied as well today :rolleyes:

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Didn't get as far as Roe Greave

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Was today your normal black bin collection day and how long is it since your last time your bin was emptied?

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What a suprise, thought New lane would be soon emptied though, had a premonition.:D:rolleyes:

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Yes Tuesdays is our day and it was back to normal grey bin as usual. We missed our cardboard last week, the rest went ok.

They were struggling last week because they could not get the wagon to the houses. They were parked on Catlow Hall Street and carrying it a long way. I am not surprised they stopped as they would not have been able to do everyone anyway. I would guess houses further away from me may have missed being collected.

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Thank you for the information - you were fortunate not to have missed any black bin collections - there are many areas of Hyndburn which have not had any black bin collections for 4 weeks and will not have their black bin collected until next week at the earliest.

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yep thats my area not has a collection since a week before christmas and not due till the 22nd recyling on the 15th

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I was lucky that the worst of the weather was in between my black bin collection days.

I still have more cardboard than Asda that has been here since Christmas :D

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Greg Pope's office bins not emptied yet. Obviously a conspiracy. :D

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the good thing about cardboard is that it is very unresistant to fire so if worst comes to worst there are alternative options available :)

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it would be like a bonfire lol

A better idea is to leave it outside your house

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donate it to shelter

their clients will appreciate a good sturdy cardboard box :)

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They are all a big soggy, will it matter

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two weeks on the trot, I suggest holding back £50 from your council tax bill

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Anyone know how much or our Council goes towards the bins?

I doubt its £50 for the whole year.

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Your forgetting all the paper shufflers, and
the spies to see whats in you bin, and whether you put it out on the right day.
How much does a spy earn in a year, plus the transport to carry the ladder to peep over your back yard wall, and the one who holds the ladder, how much is he on, they he will have a secretary to type all his reports, it goes on and on.

I, remember reading in the Telegraph just recently, that Lancs County employ 70 staff in the publicity department. What the hell can you find to publicise, that need so many.
Thats more staff that some newspapers employ.
Retlaw.

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i took some rubbish up to teh tip myslef i think i should be able to invoice teh council for fuel , time and deduct for services not recieved from my council tax bill.


oops cant do that teh council have this power which allows them to set a private firm of bailifs on you if you dont pay what tehy demand :rolleyes:

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We had to do the same the other day.:( but never mind, at least New Lanes been emptied.:rolleyes:

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Can't understand why yours haven't been emptied. Sure Mum said today our kids was emptied same day as hers, think it was Monday but to late to check now. Will find out later today and let you know for sure:)

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well its not looking like ours our getting done any time soon and if the clinical waste team dont show up tomorrow the poor sods down teh road will have 2 weeks worth of excrement and urine at teh end of tehir drive.

teh problem is if they dont put it out it is very hard to get them back to collect it and no one shoudl have to stock pile weeks worth of poop etc in their home yet alone standard rubbish an dit can be a bit embarrasing having weeks of excrement outside your house for all to see not to mention the health hazzard implications of it been left for cats to rip apart and fling around teh place

the council could at least provide bins for people who have clinical waste so that its secure when left outside for collection instead of plastic yellow binliners dumped at the kerb

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6 weeks now still waiting for bins to be emptied.

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and mine :p

They were very late collecting though, usually early morning and the bin was still full when I went to bed at 2pm ish.

I think they must still be struggling to get up and down the streets. They usually reverse up the back street but doubt they could have as the bottom of it is just ice from the melting snow.

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ours has just bin emptied, if i hadn't bin in yard having a fag, would have missed collection.:rolleyes:

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It is stupid collecting on the wrong day without informing people. You are not allowed to leave your bin out all the time so most wont.

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agree, aint bin mens fault but the clowns who organise, had no idea goin off e-mail they sent mick was end of next week.:(:rolleyes:

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I wonder if they are just doing extra streets they can get down at the end of the rounds for the day.

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You'd have thought it common sense that up to date information re: collection days, changed because of the weather, would be listed on the council's website.

Other course it isn't. Common sense being as rare as an emptied bin.

Rossendale's idea, of getting council office workers, and the council Leader, out on the streets, to help get rubbish to main roads was a great idea.

It would have even been a great photo opportunity....for next year's calendar.

Hell, l hope our council never have to cope with a real emergency, rather than a few inches of the white stuff.

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next weeks bins probably wont be collected due to large puddles from the melting snow :rolleyes:

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Just come home and cut through a few back allies, (safest way for me to travel, someone otherwise might recognise me), even when the bin men do collect, they will suffer delays the back streets are jammed tight with excess rubbish that folk can't deal with, each wagon will end up having to make extra trips to the tip as they plough their way through, no matter what or when has been promised, expect them to be slow to catch up.

I think perhaps next year the Council should consider that paying these guy's a little extra to give us as near a normal service as possible, could work out cheaper than pretending Christmas comes in Summer, not at a time Winter can throw it's worst at us.

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They did put up a notice on their web site Neil, to tell residents that you could put them out with the extra bags in case they were in your area. They did do an extra collection of household waste down my road on Tuesday. Luckily, had left the grey bin out at the edge of my lawn .. had been 5 weeks... didn't miss a recyling collection though. Unfortunately, put any excess bags in the green bin for safe keeping ... did hear them, but was nicely tucked up under my duvet .. no way was I trotting out in me pyjamas !

The notice, however, was not on there until 11 o'clock Tuesday ... too late for me.

See they have issued a new statement and guidelines:

New Waste Service Standards Launched

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The streets around here haven't had their wheelie bins emptied, as they should have been on Monday, a day when 'normal service' was apparently resumed.

After they didn't come the week after Christmas I played safe, fearing they wouldn't be emptied again, and didn't put mine out.

Not a luxury for those with familes, as their overspilling bins, littering the streets, testify to.

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I think we've had ours emptied.
Recycling definitely came last week.

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yup my garden is littered with other peoples rubbish as are other peoples gardens littered with mine because we put them out when told services would resume

cant blame our council leader for this mess though he was away on holiday when things went bad so who ever was sailing the h.m.s HBC while he was away literally ran us into an iceberg and left us sinking in sh1t :rolleyes:

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How do you know his holiday plans, is he a mate of yours? :rolleyes::p

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he was in such a hurry to get out of here for xmas the speed camera near his house picked him up loading up his luggage :)

or the realistic version where a frind of mine rang his home to see what was going on and was informed he was on holiday

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I doubt councillors are responsible for ordering where and when bin collections should be anyway. They should be there to find out who is/what is going on though.

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whoever caused this cock up shoudl be put in teh stocks in huncoat and us be allowed to throw our rubbish at them.

obviously for health and safety reasons if somone is throwing a wardrobe away it is only common sense that two people be lifiting it when it is thrown

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Them ruddy recyling people have just been ........i put blue box out, blue sack out, and white sack out...........just been to bring them in and there is NO white sack and 2 blue boxs.
so now i dont have a white sack:mad:
cant they do anything right
its easy to empty 2 sacks and 1 box that has the address on and put it back in the right place:confused:

Well next time they are round they will find 2 blue sacks put out and if they complain they will get told why:mad::mad:

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Sounds like someone needs to empty his own sack and chill out :rolleyes::D

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They say we've got to put things in the right container, say nothing about what you're gonna get back, just be thankful they didn't leave you with nothing :D

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The bin men came on to our estate yesterday and only emptied the bins that didn't need effort to get them to the bin wagon. Any that needed to be pulled along any snow were left.

But they did empty the old dears from next door who needs assistance with hers. They pulled the bin all the way down her driveway and back over the snow, so why empty hers and not the others that didn't need to be pulled as far as they were all near the pavement edge.

That now leaves a number of bins on the estate which are overflowing and won't be emptied for another two week, we've even still got all the paper and cardboard from Christmas day in the utility room that's waiting for a collection.

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That statement is really taking the mick,:(= "We want people to continue to be happy with our collection service" well i don't know many who are?

great missed the recycle,had no idea they were coming, another example of how people are really happy with the service!!!:mad: I THINK NOT.

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Why did people not leave the bins on the pavement - did they come on the wrong day?

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Everyone left their bins at the edge of the payment as normal, and they came on the normal day for our estate, but for some reason they didn't empty all of them

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They came and emptied ours today on Avenue Parade, but didn't drive up the back alleys, they walked up for the bins, emptied them in the waggon on the side streets, but then left all the bins on the side streets for people to drag back up themselves. When i'd dragged mine back i looked inside...which they obviously hadn't...because there were still three binbags inside, so its half full already!!:rolleyes:



Best Regards - Taggy

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Did someone say you could leave upto 4 extra black bags out ??:D
i took these photos yesterday

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Mick, they will take any number of extra black bin bags.

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Seeing that bin on its side it looks like Less was looking for his tea :rolleyes::D

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Quite a giant leap into the land of conclusions there Neil.

If you notice next to the bin on it's side is one with Blackburn Rd scrawled on it so that back alley will have rich pickings being behind all those take-aways.

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I have been in contact with the refuse collection department this morning and the current situation is as follows -

Last week we had reactive teams picking up where people had left their waste out to reduce the accumulation.
We appreciate that some people did not have their bins out but scheduled collections are continuing as planned this week. The crews are also removing all side waste as we have relaxed the rules for this collection.

So if your black bins are scheduled to be collected this week - please leave them out and any side waste as well

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Our wheelie bins, although I kept mine in, were meant to be collected last Monday.

Happily the recycling was collected normally this Monday, and the day after the wheelie bins, and all sacks, were taken away.

So they are trying to catch up.

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our recycling aint been collected this morning, its usually about 8-15 when they collect, hope to hell they come later or its stopping at front door cos aint dragging sodden stuff back through the house.:(

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Well Lucky Me...my recycling was collected early this morn whilst i was at the Gym...and when i got back my Blue Bin, Blue Sack and White Sack have all been nicked!!

In the past ive also had 2 Black Wheely bins nicked too....what the hell is it with folk today, is it easier/more desirable to nick other folks stuff rather than take 2 minutes to pick up a phone and order a replacement from the council....which ive just done ....AGAIN!!!:(

Best Regards - Taggy

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well have had to lug it to tip,:( was my mistake they emptied the wheely bins just before dinner, as they also emptied it last friday, i wrongly assumed it was recycle day, as most wheelys i saw on our back were only half full, due to last fridays collection, makes perfect sense to do em again, when ya got re-cycled crap coming out yer ears.:rolleyes:

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Has there been a review of the way recycling is collected ?
they have just been round here emptied everyone's blue box and white sacks but left everyone's blue sacks unemptied:confused::confused:

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Well it looks like they have changed the way its collected instead of one lorry collecting it all they now have 2 lorries one to collect the white sack and blue box stuff and one for the blue sacks as they have just been round again:rolleyes::confused:

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yet their main objection to doing weekly collections is how much fuel doing twice as many pickups uses

well thats what they said to me when i pointed out that blacknurn had abandoned fortnightly collections and that lost councils operate a weekly collection

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I had a quiet word down at the Council and asked them not to empty blue sack on your street just to give you something to post about :p:D

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I think the mods need to have further chats about just who is going to be the next mod after this :rolleyes::D:tongueout

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And you think that would stop me teasing you? :p:D

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strange un that mick, we only put out the blue bag n its been emptied.:confused:

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hynburn council not removing rubbish

now theres a shocker

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I have a touch sensitive lamp that is bust, the point is how do I dispose of this? It is made of metal with plastic and has electronic components, so just what do I do with it?

What do I do with an envelope that tells me to recycle it when my paper bag tells me not to recycle envelopes?

What do I do with a cardboard container with a metal bottom?

What do I do with a spray can that is predominantly metal but has plastic components?

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It would seem that there is only one person lacking the imagination as to where to stick these items, I have been inundated, with requests from members to suggest were and how far up to place them.

To those members may I just say, this is a friendly site, please don't encourage what could be misconstrued as a lack of bonhomie, towards a fellow member no matter how unpopular he may seem to be, (yes, you lot you're trying to get me into trouble again, as if I need help!).
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