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You have to pay for another. My moto if someone took yours go and take someone elses lmao.;)

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on my wheely bin it says its the property of the council, so how can i be responsible for it? any one can just walk off with it.

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I reckon they send people round from the council to nick wheelie bins.

From what is said on here they need all the money they can get...

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Hmm maybe it's a ploy, nick em and then sell em back to us!

Way back in the 60s some friends of ours had a farm up on the Coppice. Very recognisable, you'll probably know the one.

At one time they bought some gravel to cover the farmyard etc (better than walking on mud, helps with the drinage and all that) and then we had a very severe storm, and I mean very.

The rain pelted down and rivers flowed from the Coppice down Avenue Parade, Water Street, Sultan Street, Lodge Street, etc. bringing all the gravel with them.

It finally lodged itself outside the Town Hall from where the council out of the goodness of its heart gathered it all up and sold it back to them!

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OMG WILLOW!! IS THAT TRUE??

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hope you beat em up

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ring the council and report it stolen

the bins are embeded with a barcode and are scanned when emptied so theyt know whos bin is whos

if it has been stolen and used by somone else the will pick it up but only if they know to look for it because its stolen

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They are recorded with a hand held device. Happened to see it done last week when ours was delivered. Anyone know the name of those gizmos ? Seem to be the same that are used in some car parks.

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If one is stolen you get a free one but if a second one goes missing you have to pay £50.

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Yep, just the same, bar code readers, same as the ones used in asda or any other store, I can understand them using a reader when delivering the wheelies to log which wheelie goes where, but I'cant understand them as standard issue to the actual troops on the ground, or refuse collectors(please correct me if there is a more upmarket phrase, cause I would not want to offend anyone), think they may finish up inside the crusher.
:enough: :enough: :enough:

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They scan barcodes on the blue tubs to see if your household is participating in the recycling scheme.You get points for recycling your rubbish and can pledge the points to a local school,the kids at the participating schools sign you up and your rubbish earns the points. Peel Park are currently way ahead on 16123 points whilst Mount Pleasant are 2nd on 9560.The schools involved have allegedly earned enough points for £20,000 of equipment.

Scarily,really big schools like Moorhead [2337] and Rhyddings [2208] don't seem to have grasped the point of the scheme.
I think it's a great achievement for the kids at Peel Park to be so far ahead and winning the equipment for their school. {Although in an ideal world they wouldn't need to do this as it would all be govt. funded!**

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The problem Moorhead etc have is that younger siblings have already got their parents/neighbours/aunts and uncles to pledge for the junior schools and of course they can't pledge for more than one school.

I've got a barcode sticker on my wheelie bin. Do you mean they are also embedded in the material? I thought it was just on the sticker. A theif could easily rip the stickers off.

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tHEY CAN'T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO PICK FALLING RUBBISH UP SO HOW THE HELL ARE THEY TO BARCODE THINGS (their backs won't bend that far to do it)

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Yep!! totally agree willow, I live very near willows lane, and if you remember me saying on friday I watched the bin men (more interested in throwing bloody snowballs at each other) I am sorry but That is not what I pay council tax for.................lazy bone Idol gits want to get a job bending banana's in ASDA if they can't handle a PROPER MANS JOB!!

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Why would anyone want to steal a wheelie bin?

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OK here is your up-to-date on-the-spot report from your local refuse collection observer.

The bin men themselves do not carry any bar code reading devices. The blue boxes have a small disc under the rim (about the size of a 10p) and when the box is tipped into the wagon the wagon itself "reads" information encoded into that disc. So if your box got switched withe someone else's the "muck truck" would think it was emptying their box when it was actually emptying yours (or at least the one it picks up from outside your house)

I am assured that the bin men are very careful to put the boxes back where they get them from.

This is how the schools pledges are recorded.

I haven't ventured out the back yet to investigate the rim of my wheelie bin but I'm presuming there is something similar on there. Isn't modern technology wonderful?

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well these wheelie bin are a bit of a nusance there massive and we only have a small back yard

on collection day we have to trole the bin's all the way around the block. it's not on

and wat are HBC going to do for the disabled of elderly who can't take there wheelie bin's to the front of the house every collection day?

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I know what you mean Dean. I have a very tiny yard (more of an L-shaped path) and most of it is occupied by my wheelie bin and recycling box/bags. My wheelie bin just goes out the back so that's fairly easy but my recycling stuff is collected from the front and I refuse to have mucky bags and box trailed through the house so they have to be carted round from the back to the front. OK, they are smaller than a wheelie bin but not having wheels the box is more difficult to negotiate so I get the kids to carry it round between them. There is no way I am leaving it at the front of the house all the time because it looks untidy and it has more chance of being nicked. There isn't enough room in the vestibule and there is NO WAY the thing is living in the house as Hyndborg BC suggested as it's filthy when it's been sitting out there awaiting collection in all weathers.

Across the other side of Willows Lane some people have orange sacks instead of the wheelie bin because the bin wagon can't get down their back and presumably they can't get a bin from back to front or down the front steps (some do get it up and down the steps and leave it at the front door which I don't think does much to enhance the appearance of the neighbourhood). Presumably the ones who can't manange to get it up and down the steps are allowed to use the orange sacks (official HBC orange sacks)

When these houses were built they weren't built for wheelie bins. (Nasty, nasty invention the wheelie bin. :mad: )

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On the plus side cats can't get in 'em and chuck the rubbish everywhere,on the down side they are cumbersome and ugly!Then again I don't suppose they are meant to be easy on the eye!

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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

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Yep, have the same problem with wheelie, 3 large steps to get down to floor level :eek:
HeHe, must not have the bar code on blue bags. We seem to get more than one back, have several in the wash-house.:confused:

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I find it insulting that the council which threatens us with £1,000 fines can't clean up after itself. Most of the litter in this town is created by bin men when they drop bags. If you ring the council to complain it takes days before they send somebody to look by which time the rubbish has spread out over a far wider area.

I refuse to gather it all up and have it in my wheelie bin because that won't leave enough room for my rubbish! Then they'll fine me for having too much!

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i emailed a pictire of my street to greg pope after the bin men had been

not the back alley but actualy my front street

he couldnt believe the mess there were milk cartons , nappies , broken glass and rotting food

the next day the council cleaned it up but only after i threatened to send the pic to teh newspaper and a kick up the ass from gregg pope

what the hell are the binmen doing with our trash that makes it appear on the front of our houses ...?

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there is a guy at the observer who realy has it in for the wheelie bins jsut ask for the guy who does wheelie bin storys

he will listen to you and probably use your pics

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Our wheelies are every other Tues. and are emptied from the corner of the back street. On a Wed. following the wheelie empty, we have a gizmo drive down the back street (one of those motorised street cleaning machines) cleaning up after the wheelie empty, is that not doing the same job twice.:confused:
What I can't understand though is, we were instructed to have our wheelies at the corner of the back street by 7.30AM on the day of collection.............but they don't land to empty them whilst lunch time or just after. Has someone got the "time & motion study" wrong, or are the operatives spending to long in the cafe :confused:

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i cant wait until nov 5th

every year i have a bomfire on my back alley and god help and wheelie bin thats left unguarded

if its flamable it burns , its as simple as that i like fire way too much and a strong hatred of wheelie bins

anyone got a match please :D

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see my point

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here you go chav1
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the councils favourite excuse for not cleaning up after the mess left behind is that the little mini road sweeper as i call it can not get up the pavements becasuse cars are parked half on the road and half on the pavement

if the cars are illigaly parked then the person driving the mini road sweeper shoud ring the traffic warden to give them a ticket

i know hundreds of people park their cars half on the pavement and half on the road but if yo want your pavements clean then allow the council to do their job and park on the road

maybe if the council set a day for the road sweeper to come people could park their cars propper on that particular day and let the mini road sweeper up the pavement

omg i just stuck up for HBC someone whip me

PLEEEEASE :o

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Consider your self flogged to within an inch of your life. I don't want to hear any more of this HBC are really nice people nonsense. They are all spawn of the devil and idle with it!

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I agree but what i was trying to say is that when you eventualy get a road sweeper to turn up they cant get up and along the pavement because cars are parked on them so the seeper cant fit between the cars and the houses

they shuld scrap the mini road sweepers and get a much cheaper fleet of people pushing a cart and brush

its worked for years so why stop

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There was a thread I posted some while back which had info on the Cleansing Department of Accrington Borough Council in 1928. It made quite surprising reading. I think I will have a look and see if I can find it.

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i just realised that since we got wheelie bins we no longer get free binliners yet we are expected to put our rubbish into binliners still then put them in the wheelie bin for collection

thank god for poundland they have decent binliners there lol

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Yeah and they are scented as well, smell of roses or lemon. Very good value
Good old poundland eh :D

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i like how poundland keep their pregnancy tests right next to the condoms

it dosnt give you much faith in the condoms does it lol

apart from that i love the place i dont care if ime seen as pezzy or chavy you cant beat them on stationary and cleaning products etc

also got a motorized cup that mixes cupochinos and its still working fine 4 weeks on lol

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yes, but if you check ASDA out they are cheaper on a lot of products than the pound shop. cleaning products for one. own brand toilet cleaner, for instance, is 35p at asda.