In article , Victoria Clare
writes:

Subject: Grass fly-tipper hit hard in pocket
From: Victoria Clare
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:22:34 +0000

Frogleg wrote in
:

We put the wheely bins out at the curb, and they're
collected by 1-man trucks with automatic grabbing arms, rather than
individuals who empty bins or collect bags.

Living in a city has some compensations then!

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and there
is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

The houses are quite widely separated too, and I think one reason the
collection service is so limited is that running collection services over a
long distance for each house is relatively expensive.

Your grabbing trucks might be able to pick up rubbish for 10 houses in, say
200 yards : our binmen might have to travel half a mile or more to do the
same number of houses.

Victoria

I presume that you pay the same council tax as the more urban residents of your
council area. Don't make your council's case for them. Otherwise you may find
that somebody suggests that because collections in the country are more
expensive then they show be restricted in some way.

Peter Bridge