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you can ride in them :)

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they better not do that's aloada **** :eek: we have 5 people in our family and usually have 5 or 6 full bin bags, more at christmas, easter, or birthday's so i know for sure that we won't fit everything in our bin and then they have the cheak to make us walk around our house with the dam bin for collection at the front

and having more than one bin will leave no room in our back yard.
we have little room with one in (and a broken down moterbike that my dad is trying to get running again) MORE RUBBISH THAT WON'T FIT IN THE BINS

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take the bike to the skip.

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no it keep's him occupied

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i could tell all this to my mum cause she works at the council and knows most of the bin men who work there.

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go ahead luke and think's might be better

or you might have a war on your hands

or your mum has a big long line of people outside here office with complantes right now.

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i think the bin men should be allowed to go into your back garden and take your bins to the front.

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yes but the'll come up with something so they can sue you if they get hurt on your land/if you happen to have unappropriate material in your back yard like plutonium or something of that natuer.

not that i have or anything

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ggod point nether thought of that. by the way don't put things in the worng boxes/bins or they will leave them and not empty them. it happened to us at christmas (it was my fault i put a glass bottle in the bottle bin). :)

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we can't get rids of the bins or there will be to much rubbish so what can you do.

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It's not just one week's worth of rubbish. It's two. They will only empty the wheelie bins once a fortnight. They have said that they will only take a wheelie binful and that it must be inside the bin with the lid closed. If your lid won't close then they reckon you have too much in there. They do not say what you are supposed to do with the surplus but they are very clear in the leaflet that they won't take extra bags.

If you have cardboard you don't need to put that inside. You can stack it next to the bin and they are supposed to take it separately so that would leave more room inside but even so I still think one bin every 2 weeks is not going to be enough for some people. I did try asking them on the phone what one is supposed to do if one has more rubbish that one binful but all I got out of that was the offer of another blue box (which was delivered today) which I didn't really need as everything recyclable gets recycled anyway and usually fits in the one. Maybe they make exceptions for larger familiesif you ask them nicely.

As for not having enough room for two wheelie bins they'd probably argue that you take up that much room anywya if you have that much rubbish beside your bin in bags. This is due to the fact that it's 2 weeks worth of rubbish rather than just the one which it used to be.

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if you ask for a second bin the council send out a person whos job is basicly to tell you that you are not a good recycler and trys to blame you for having too much rubbish as it couldnt possibly be the councils policy of one pick up every 2 weeks thats causing people not to manage on 1 bin

also you will be told that no one else in hynburn has a problem so why should you not be able to manage with 1 bin as clearly everyone else is able too

larger familys do get an extra wheelie bin if they pester enough but if you are a couple with a baby you dont stand a chance

when i asked what i shuodl do with my childs nappies for 2 weeks they couldnt answer me if i should use the wheelie bin , blue box or the white paper bag


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the simple solution is to have a black binliner in your kitchen and throw all waste in their exept for any post or documents with your name or adress on it

simply throw it down the back alley and phone the council to alert them to the binliner that has been dumped on the back alley

an inspector will arrive and start rummaging through the binliner gleefully looking for evidence so that he can prosecute the person responible for the sum of £1000

putting broken glass and razor blades into the binliner is optional i suppose it depends on how upset you are with te council and the smug bast**d that talks down to you like you are 3 years old then threatens you with a £1000 fine

apart from the razor blade idea the idea of throwing binliners with no evidence to where it came from was given to me by refuse at accy hyndburn council as they told me it was what everyone else was doing because they cant cope with 1 pick up a week yet no one seems to have put the notion forward that 2 pickup are needed lol

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My wheelie bin has not yet been a problem, although my back yard step is a bit high and the bin has gotten away from me a couple of times when I have been getting the bin out of my yard. Luckily my neighbour survived the accident..:D My problem at the moment is my blue bag. I put my plastics out last week with all the other re-cyclables and never got the blue bag back. I have now got my plastics in a carrier bag. I will be leaving them out next thursday with a note demanding the return of my blue bag.:)

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i find it insulting that we are faced with fines for not recycling properly and allegedly harming the enviroment

why not pressure te companies that make plastic bottles etc to make bio degradable containers etc

also if teh govenment is so keen on protecting the enviroment why dont the hit companies who polute with realistic fines as a company can save millions by tipping into rivers etc yet only face a £5000 fine ( maybe more) if caught , either way its cheaper for companies to pay fines than pay for propper disposal of their waste