On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:59:29 GMT, Baz wrote:


I think we are lucky where we live. You on the other hand are not and I am
sure that this way of thinking will surely come soon for you.

It's been debated ad nauseam and things won't change any time soon. At
least I'm lucky in that I've got a decent 2 mile run along clear roads
to the local tip (which we must now call "Civic Amenity Site"). I'm
now having to use that as I have no more composting or leaf moulding
capacity but neighbours know I'll take their stuff when I go - fill
the car to bursting point - so at least they don't have to fork out
for the blasted bags.

But to be fair, we have all sorts of weekly recycling collections and
the council will collect big things like old lounge suites, fridges
and freezers, beds and wotnot free of charge if they're beyond
freecycling.

If I had to guess, I think that we have had this for at 5 years at least.

Where my mother lived they had brown wheelie bins for garden waste,
collected weekly. Because she had limited mobility, all she had to do
(well her morning carer did) was unlock the garden gate and the chaps
would nip in and wheel her bin (and the general waste one every other
week) out and back in again. I always wondered why they had a brown
bin for green waste and a green bin for brown waste as it were

We had to fight the council BTW (not me) to find out how our couincil tax
was being used, and Elliot Morley flopped over like a rotten kipper. To be
fair, he was doing it already. A shove in the right place.

You mean you've found out how your council tax is spent? I worked in
the local government field (though not directly for a local authority)
for about 36 years an I've never been able to find out! The local
community council's accounts show expenditure on crayons and colouring
books, presumably for the community councillors to use during
meetings, and donations to some jazz band (I think they use some
instruments called "bazookas") that's 15 miles away and has no link to
the local community as far as I know (other than a community
councillor being the grandmother of a couple of young girls in the
band).

Baz

BTW, I love your post on GB

If you mean the sig, I've retired it after a quick burst but may
resurrect once in a while if sphincterman starts stirring it again.
Otherwise I will no longer acknowledge his existence.

Cheers, Jake
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