UK ONLY! Bins, lid down!?

Question

I understand that everywhere in the country,bin lids need to be flat, which I can understand as they only have enough room in their trucks for 1 bin full from each house. However,I live in Warrington,home of Warrington Rugby Team, and our Council are actually proposing that in Warrington,our bins should be collected every 2 WEEKS with the bin lid still down.Now I can't even think of a way that is beneficial except for the bin people and the Council.

I feel sorry for Mr.Jones next door,he's 83 and has very bad arthritis. His family don't live near here,so if he fills his bin up in 2 weeks and the bin lid is up,then Mr.Jones has to carry his heavy rubbish to a bus to the skip 3 miles away and then get a bus back. Not only does Mr.Jones get a disgraceful pension and must pay for these trips,he would be putting himself in danger and risking his health because of the local Council not wanting to pay the bin people's wages!

My question is can you think of why the Council would do this?

They are great answers, thank guys. We do have a TINY box for glass, and a wheely bin for grass and stuff like that, but that's it. We have quite a new house, about 5 years old now, and then kitchen is tiny, how on earth do they expect us to have 3 to 4 bins? I remember watching a shower a couple week back when this women said that supermarkets should start taking extra packaging back. Just think of MR.Kiplings Cherry Bakewell Tarts? You've got the cardboard box, the plastic wrapping, the plastic tray then the tin foil tradys under the tarts. Anyway, thank you :)

Answer 1

are they council introducting a recycling scheme? in my area we have recently been given 2 wheelie bins and 2 smaller boxes to recycle. our wheelies bins get emptied every 2 weeks alternatly. so garden n cardboard one week and general rubbish the next. it maybe you may find a surprise of some new bins on ur doorstep each week. if ur not getting the recycling thing that seems to be sweeping each country then i really cant see it possbile to not overflow a wheelie bin in 2 weeks without collection. but i expect the recycling thing.

Answer 2

A few years ago we started recycling as much of household waste as would be accepted by the council: bottles, tins, cardboard and paper etc.

We made an effort to buy goods with minimal packaging and steered away from those that were wastefully packaged.

The end result: we put out a half rubbish sack a fortnight- generally plastic meat wrap etc (that's for 4 people). By thinking a little about what we were buying and recycling as much as possible our rubbish output is fraction of what it was.

Answer 3

no, it's a disgrace, in Aberdeen the council want to do the same, can you imagine rubbish after two weeks in the sun. Everyone l know fills their bins in a week, never mind two. The other thing is they keep putting the Council Tax up, but try to make cuts in everything. Even our fire engines are white because they couldn't afford to spray them red. and the roads don't let me go there.

Answer 4

Amazing - this is only getting to Warrington now.

It economics pure and simple, you'll probably get more bins soon to separate your rubbish. If you already have your extra bins then this move is to make sure you separate your rubbish.

Garbage is costly high tech business nowadays or so they say.

Answer 5

Our council is doing the same, Angus. They have brought in a recycling policy with three bins!

One for glass, tins and paper etc. One for veggie stuff and the other is the normal bin.

I think the idea is that if you recycle, you will have less rubbish and therefore wont need your bin collecting so often. There is one subtle flaw in that plan.

It's crap!

Answer 6

The Police are legally required to guard existence and limb (under i think of section a million %. Police And criminal information Act 1984) subsequently they may well be certainly breaking their very own code of training and the regulation, as lots of idiots have threatened to reason harm to her it somewhat is secure to assert she may well be in threat from specific people. it wasn't very advantageous what she did and he or she does deserve publicly shaming for what she did yet thats it, its abit loopy to be making threats to kill over putting a Cat in a wheelie bin, you're able to desire to be questioning what occurring in the previous bags head, may well be she is dropping the plot and f**ok each and all of the thumbs down

Answer 7

because if everybody [1000's of people] left the lid up 1days work would take a week!!! mr.jones can get help from a carer,or maybe a concearned freiendly neighbour!!!!

Answer 8

Purely money saving!

Get your local community together and put up a protest! It's how problems are sorted near me :)

Answer 9

get a partition goin! girl

Answer 10

Keep em up.