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Jake Nospam@invalid wrote in
: Lucky you, Baz (in relation to garden waste recycling not the local fire fanatic). Nothing like that here. You have to buy little green plastic bags at an exorbitant price. The bags are so weak that they break if you put more than a couple of left over impatiens in them and then you have to use another one to put the first in or they won't collect it. The black bags the council supply for non-recyclable waste are deliberately almost see-through. If the guys notice any plant material in the bag they will leave it. Cheers, Jake ================================================== ===== URGling from the less wet end of Swansea Bay in between sweeping up leaves by the cubic metre! www.rivendell.org.uk Different councils I guess. 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. If I had to guess, I think that we have had this for at 5 years at least. 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. Baz BTW, I love your post on GB |
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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 ================================================== ===== URGling from the less wet end of Swansea Bay in between sweeping up leaves by the cubic metre! www.rivendell.org.uk |
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