jackthedog Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Do you have a regular time for the bin-men? Our bin men are about as regular as our postman. They could come at 6am, they could come at 10am. It really is that irregular. I have noticed that they just seem to throw the bins back in the general direction of the house. So when I get home from work, the bins are all up the pavement, leaving no room to walk, park the cars etc. But I cant complain. We all try to cut down our work, and if I could get home faster by working faster, I too would probably cut a few corners. It's just that when they do it, it bothers us so we complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Q. What is worse than a wheelie bin blown over? A. A full blue bin of newspaper blown over. I got up on Monday this week, after it had been pretty windy in the night, to find the whole contents of a blue bin blowing all over the the street/gardens where I live. What a mess. These bins should have had an inbuilt clip to stop the lid coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackthedog Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Nightmare. Good point with the clip, except binmen would complain that it would add to their workload... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield20 Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by jackthedog Do you have a regular time for the bin-men? Yeah, always early - rarely much after 6AM! We're right on the South Yorkshire/Derbyshire boundary so I guess we're first stop on the day's round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robh Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Sam Miguel Is it me or are those wheeliebins the wrong shape or something? When it's windy - and they've been emptied - they blow all over the place. I've retrieved them from the middle of our road! It's a pain, it really is My bin gets blown over even when it's in its storage place up my back passage (...maybe I could phrase that better...). Maybe theres a project for a University student here to do some wind-tunnel testing and design an aerodynamic wheelie bin. That must be good enough to earn for a PhD. 20 years ago part of the service was for the bin men to collect the bin from my rear entry (...no that's no better...) and return it after - another 20 years and I expect they'll have us wheeling the bins to the end of the road at 7:00 am and tipping them into the truck ourselves. Well it's easy to grumble but - Sheffield City Council - English average Cost of waste collection per household - £29.93 - £30.05 Missed collections, per 100,000 bins - 84 - 173.1 % of the total tonnage of household waste arising which have been recycled - 4.3 - 9.8 taken from: http://www.upmystreet.com/inf/pi/det/eng/?l1=s11#Corporate_health Very low "missed collection" figure, cost about average, recycling - oops - better get using those blue bins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield20 Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by robh Very low "missed collection" figure, cost about average, recycling - oops - better get using those blue bins! Another whinge... bought the current house in Sheffield 4 years ago. Back then the blue box recycling scheme would take plastic bottles, glass bottles and paper for recycling. Not too long ago they stopped taking plastic bottles. And now, with the new blue wheelie bin scheme, all they'll take is paper. Seems like a real step back to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosherchik Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Sam Miguel "How many times must a bin blo-ow away, Before it be-heads a man, Yes 'n how times must I while away the day, As I watch the guys load up the van. Then the wheelie bin my friend Just blows in the wind The wheelie bin jus' blows in the wind." B Dylan 2004 Gets harmonica out......... I dunno about wind but we had a crazy neighbour who would go thru our rubbish and tip it up everywhere then say it was a fox! My dad tied the lid down with rope and boyscout like knots and reliably the rubbish was everywhere!.....I never knew foxes could untie knots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackthedog Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Sounds like your old man should've used the rope and boyscout like knots on the neighbour... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosherchik Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by jackthedog Sounds like your old man should've used the rope and boyscout like knots on the neighbour... Hmmm.....Maybe altho being tied up may have caused excitment! trust me to lower the tone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackthedog Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Depends how Crazy Neighbour feels about your Dad I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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