Tuesday 18 August 2009

Bin Day

The dustmen have been this morning.

I can tell this because they’ve left us the wrong empty dustbin and a trail of waste across the pavement. Last week they left about ¼ of the contents of the garden waste bin in, er, the garden waste bin.

The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell strike again. Well done, chaps.

4 comments:

  1. Is it still literally "dustmen", multiple workers manually emptying (or not, as the case may be) bins into the truck? Or all single-person vehicles with semi-automated arms on the truck, such as this:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenr/71728062/

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  2. God help us all if we have to go over to wheelie bins: I've literally nowhere to put one, and have to leave the recycling bins in the front garden as it is!

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  3. It is still "dustmen". As far as I'm aware, nowhere in Britain has single-person bin collection.

    Wheelie bins suit us.......but then we have space for them; there's no "one size fits all" solution for this.

    Here in Sandwell we have three bins:

    Blue Lid Wheelie Bin for recycling

    Green Lid Wheelie Bin for garden waste and

    Conventional dustbin for everything else.

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  4. My fav' is our paper bin they have given us. We are told we should shread our letters with personal detials on, then we get a box with no lid!! I guess the local mice are happy to have free bedding when the wind blows it in their direction.

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