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*puts baseball bat behind his back and steps away from the shop window*

Our council has removed all recycling collections for the foreseeable with the guidance that we should only bin recycling waste in general waste if “no other option exists”.

I’ve gently emailed the council to note that they subcontracted waste collection to a commercial party who, if they’re low on staff due to sickness, can probably find a fair number of people who they can employ as cover who are newly job seeking and qualified to “throw stuff in a lorry” and not give rise to another health risk. I’ve also noted that said third party can also furlough the sick employees under the new scheme to ensure neither they or their employees are left out of pocket. I’m not holding my breath.

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Not just job seekers, anyone currently getting money from government to sit around watching Netflix ought to be available for any necessary work really.

"That was a party political broadcast by the toryNazi party."

That's some pretty intensive training if they have to squeeze an LGV license in there.

General waste collection day today. My bin was full but luckily my neighbours had ample room for my extra bags.

Haven’t even been given gloves.

Zardoz wrote:

General waste collection day today. My bin was full but luckily my neighbours had ample room for my extra bags.

Is that something most people do then, or do you have an arrangement with them?

I believe it's technically fly tipping.

Mr Chonks wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

General waste collection day today. My bin was full but luckily my neighbours had ample room for my extra bags.

Is that something most people do then, or do you have an arrangement with them?

I have an arrangement with them. They're still breathing.

Grim... wrote:

But why though?

Maybe it’s an irrational peeve.

If I caught you doing that to me I’d empty the bags over your head

Today was a technical fly-tipper’s wet dream.

Grim... wrote:

But why though?

I just think it’s quite rude without asking. Like if next door asked me I wouldn’t mind as they have four people there.

Maybe it’s an irrational peeve.

I got the power washer on my bin today. Got it looking like new!

I did a few of the neighbours too... Happy days are here again!

Our garden waste disposal starts again on tuesday. I currently have enough garden waste to fill... hmm... 10 bins I reckon

You'll be needing the cover of darkness to use the neighbours bins!

I'll have it, I need green waste for my compost bin.

Author:	Cras [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 20:25 ]
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puts baseball bat behind his back and steps away from the shop window

Author:	DavPaz [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 20:34 ]
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Cras wrote: puts baseball bat behind his back and steps away from the shop window You can loot if you want to...

Author:	Zardoz [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 21:05 ]
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I salute the bin men and ladies of Wyre Bourough! Collection today went perfectly. Not like the scouse layabouts who has to push back by a day. Bet they were hungover or whacked up on goof balls.

Author:	DavPaz [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 22:46 ]
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Cheshire

Author:	Zardoz [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 22:52 ]
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Bless you.

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Author:	DavPaz [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 23:08 ]
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sanitises hands

Author:	BikNorton [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 23:11 ]
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Are the binmen doing an essential job? Does the "no more than.4 bags a week" rule still apply even though we're going to be here the whole time now? The tip was shut yesterday anyway, so I'm definitely going to have to start burning my green waste (generally at least 2 full carloads a week to the tip, despite 5 cubic metres of compost bins, 2 leaf mulch bins, 3 chickens and a woodshed)

Author:	DavPaz [ Mon Mar 23, 2020 23:24 ]
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The binmen are absolutely essential. Especially as we won't be able to dump our own stuff

Author:	Sir Taxalot [ Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:45 ]
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The health risk of leaving rotting garbage around would be significant, and best avoided I would have thought. If we've got a load of people getting 'rona and many needing medical help, we wouldn't want people getting sick with other avoidable things and potentially increasing the load on the health service.

Author:	NervousPete [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 0:07 ]
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Yep, I have seen the essential posts list and the bin-men are on it. Hats off to them. My favourite waste disposal based sketch.

Author:	ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 0:41 ]
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Our council has removed all recycling collections for the foreseeable with the guidance that we should only bin recycling waste in general waste if “no other option exists”. I’ve gently emailed the council to note that they subcontracted waste collection to a commercial party who, if they’re low on staff due to sickness, can probably find a fair number of people who they can employ as cover who are newly job seeking and qualified to “throw stuff in a lorry” and not give rise to another health risk. I’ve also noted that said third party can also furlough the sick employees under the new scheme to ensure neither they or their employees are left out of pocket. I’m not holding my breath.

Author:	Cras [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:54 ]
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Also, as I have not yet evolved the ability to macerate cardboard and plastics into a useful slurry suitable for basic construction materials, NO OTHER OPTION EXISTS.

Author:	markg [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:14 ]
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: Our council has removed all recycling collections for the foreseeable with the guidance that we should only bin recycling waste in general waste if “no other option exists”. I’ve gently emailed the council to note that they subcontracted waste collection to a commercial party who, if they’re low on staff due to sickness, can probably find a fair number of people who they can employ as cover who are newly job seeking and qualified to “throw stuff in a lorry” and not give rise to another health risk. I’ve also noted that said third party can also furlough the sick employees under the new scheme to ensure neither they or their employees are left out of pocket. I’m not holding my breath. Not just job seekers, anyone currently getting money from government to sit around watching Netflix ought to be available for any necessary work really.

Author:	MaliA [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:19 ]
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markg wrote: ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: Our council has removed all recycling collections for the foreseeable with the guidance that we should only bin recycling waste in general waste if “no other option exists”. I’ve gently emailed the council to note that they subcontracted waste collection to a commercial party who, if they’re low on staff due to sickness, can probably find a fair number of people who they can employ as cover who are newly job seeking and qualified to “throw stuff in a lorry” and not give rise to another health risk. I’ve also noted that said third party can also furlough the sick employees under the new scheme to ensure neither they or their employees are left out of pocket. I’m not holding my breath. Not just job seekers, anyone currently getting money from government to sit around watching Netflix ought to be available for any necessary work really. "That was a party political broadcast by the tory party."

Author:	markg [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:53 ]
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I was half joking, obviously nobody should get dragged out of their homes. But I don't think it's entirely unreasonable that people getting paid could be asked to do jobs they might not normally. We've been told by management that we could be sent to do anything regardless of whether it's anything to do with what we signed on for. I guess it was just the "well someone else can just empty the bins" that irked me. Yeah, how about you if you're not busy?

Author:	Mimi [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:16 ]
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My mother’s husband is a street sweeper. He works for Veolia. Where he works (outer London, let’s say) there are a number of different crews. Street sweepers (that also empty high street bins, etc) the bin truck crews, large item collectors, etc. Nobody has been issued any PPE, and of course they are all handling potentially hazardous waste. At the end of last week he got in to work and turned up to find all of the bin truck crew being sent home for the foreseeable and the street sweep crews are being trained up to work the bin trucks. So, the only reason I can see got this is that as the bin truck crews are on a higher rate that the government will pick up the 80% of the higher rate from Veolia, whilst they continue to pay the lower rate to the schmucks who are now working the bin trucks they have been rushed in to fill. Social distancing? Well, they have to cram three in the little cab up front to get to the route, so none of that. Haven’t even been given gloves. So assuming Veolia will try to do this across the UK (they are responsible for the vast majority of the UKs bin collections) they are using this to the advantage of paying lower wages to desperate people in awful conditions, and even if you’re not concerned about those people then your bin collection might end up messed up as nobody knows what they are doing. I guess sensible advice is to wear dedicated rubber gloves when you retrieve bin and bleach & water the outside, then wash the gloves thoroughly outside, then hands when you take them off.

Author:	GazChap [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 13:50 ]
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Still boggles my mind that Shropshire Council awarded a 27 year contract for refuse collection to Veolia. TWENTY SEVEN YEARS.

Author:	myp [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:29 ]
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MaliA wrote: "That was a party political broadcast by the toryNazi party."

Author:	myp [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:25 ]
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I was half-joking too.

Author:	Warhead [ Wed Mar 25, 2020 14:15 ]
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Manchester council also now not collecting the garden/food cycling bin and suggesting everything goes in the much smaller general waste bin. This is just not going to work as our general waste bin always gets full and there's also a lot of recyclable stuff in the big green bin. And with the tips closed we can't even take the stuff ourselves.

Author:	Kern [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:54 ]
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The announcer on Radio 3 has just given us an update on his local bin collections. Giphy "end times": https://media1.giphy.com/media/8quB9JlAtir19LTUm2/giphy-loop.mp4

Author:	Zardoz [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:30 ]
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General waste collection day today. My bin was full but luckily my neighbours had ample room for my extra bags.

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 13:30 ]
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That's some pretty intensive training if they have to squeeze an LGV license in there.

Author:	Mimi [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 13:35 ]
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Grim... wrote: That's some pretty intensive training if they have to squeeze an LGV license in there. Yeah, not all three of them are driving. The drivers are still drivers, the actual guys that handle the bins aren’t driving.

Author:	myp [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 13:37 ]
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Zardoz wrote: General waste collection day today. My bin was full but luckily my neighbours had ample room for my extra bags. Is that something most people do then, or do you have an arrangement with them?

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 13:39 ]
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I believe it's technically fly tipping.

Author:	Sir Taxalot [ Mon Mar 30, 2020 23:34 ]
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Mimi wrote: Haven’t even been given gloves. Yuckkkk. Coronavirus situation aside, I would have thought that anyone handling waste should be given gloves to use.

Author:	DavPaz [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 0:05 ]
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Garden waste collection suspended in Wirral

Author:	Cras [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 0:36 ]
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The end times!

Author:	Zardoz [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:21 ]
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Mr Chonks wrote: Zardoz wrote: General waste collection day today. My bin was full but luckily my neighbours had ample room for my extra bags. Is that something most people do then, or do you have an arrangement with them? I have an arrangement with them. They're still breathing.

Author:	Zardoz [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:22 ]
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Grim... wrote: I believe it's technically fly tipping. The flies get the scraps sure, and they seem happy with that.

Author:	TheVision [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:57 ]
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Zardoz wrote: Mr Chonks wrote: Zardoz wrote: General waste collection day today. My bin was full but luckily my neighbours had ample room for my extra bags. Is that something most people do then, or do you have an arrangement with them? I have an arrangement with them. They're still breathing. I just wait until midnight before I put my bins out. I have the pick of the street then for any overflow.

Author:	myp [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:12 ]
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If I caught you doing that to me I’d empty the bags over your head

Author:	Grim... [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:14 ]
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But why though?

Author:	myp [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:25 ]
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Grim... wrote: But why though? I just think it’s quite rude without asking. Like if next door asked me I wouldn’t mind as they have four people there. Maybe it’s an irrational peeve.

Author:	Trooper [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:28 ]
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Mr Chonks wrote: Grim... wrote: But why though? Maybe it’s an irrational peeve. I think he designed my local park.

Author:	TheVision [ Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:32 ]
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Mr Chonks wrote: If I caught you doing that to me I’d empty the bags over your head Now there's a challenge if ever I heard one!