it's a bank holiday today, that means the bin doesn't get emptied. Instead it gets emptied on the Saturday before... we forgot again. So, have a full bin.
I was looking on the council website for their page about rubbish collection changes during bank holidays.
There's an interesing load of statistics, on this page...
Key guarantees:
- Collecting your rubbish in your area on the same day each week.
- We will put your bin back where you left it.
- We will clear up any rubbish we spill.
- We will deliver your bin within one week of visiting you if you report your bin stolen or missing.
- If you arrange for a special collection of large, bulky household items we aim to collect this within four weeks.
Out of the 6.5 million bins collected last year only 39 were reported as not being put back, only 53 spillages were reported and the number of bins missed is 0.053% of the total.
Well I know that with our bin one time every two I have to wander down the road to find it every Monday morning... maybe I should start reporting it every second week. I urge everyone else to too, so they'll get their act together and realist that it's there apathetic residents who can't be arsed to tell them the bin was miles down the road.
And clearing up any spillages... yeah right.
Oh bollox. Our bin would also normally be emptied today, but I assumed (incorrectly) that it would be done tomorrow instead. As such it was in the back garden on Saturday. Arse.
Posted by: TraB on May 3, 2004 11:17 AMI've just been told that I will now have no fewer than three different bins - one for cardboard/paper/stuff, one for glass and organic waste (not sure why those two are mixed, but ne'er mind), and one for all the rest.
The collection timetable is a nightmare.
Posted by: Joe on May 5, 2004 12:24 PMI was going to mark where I placed the bin last night, photograph it and photo where it appears today. But I couldn't be arsed.
It had only moved 2 metres anyway :(
Posted by: Ed on May 10, 2004 9:23 PMLol. I had quite an interesting time on Sunday evening putting our overloaded bin out, and then stealthly stuffing the remainder of our two weeks rubbish into other bins. Managed it though.
When I went to put the bin away, the street cleaner had arranged them all into a nice neat row. And he hadn't emptied his barrow into it for a change either. Bargin.
Posted by: TraB on May 11, 2004 11:33 AM"stealthly stuffing the remainder of our two weeks rubbish into other bins"
Osama bin-raiding we call it :-) Osama doesn't really fit in to it, other that us doing it under stealth... but hey. Now if we lived on Osmaston Street things would be different...
Posted by: Ed on May 11, 2004 3:24 PM