What a waste of time...

[Furby]

It has now been 3 weeks and two days since the last collection of my recycle items, and they still have not been collected.

It has been....wait for it.... 4 weeks and two days since the last collection of my household waste - the wheelie bins in other words.

I tried to contact the council on the 22 December and again on the 28 December. I had to end up emailing as I could not get through on the phone at all - no-one was answering.

I finally recieved a reply via email two days ago stating that they will arrange for my rubbish to be collected as soon as they can if I send them my address. I did not mention the recycle items (cans, plastics, paper) because it was due for normal collection when I emailed them.

My bins/recycle items only get collected once a fortnight as it is - one week bins, next week recycle. I now have mounting recycle stuff, and even more mounting month-old refuge that stinks, along with others on my street.

I will now inform the council that not only have the bins not been emptied again on the due date, but the recycle items have also not been collected again :(

It is disgusting - once a fortnight is bad enough, but it is now over a month :mad: I am going to contact my MP over the matter - not that anything will get done, but I live in hope.

End of rant. :mad:

[Gina]

That's totally disgusting!!! :mad:

[shano]

Good luck. I had the exact same problem with our council when the SAME sytem was introduced. Rubbish, stinking everywhere!!!

I ended up having to solve it the only way possible - buy more buckets - even that was an issue cos they tried telling me they would only empty one of each kind on the given week, so the extra ones go out without 'the numbers' on and they don't notice...

P.S I will add that the buckets were bought from homebase cos extra buckets from our council were going to cost £50 quid each...:lol

[Furby]

Good luck. I had the exact same problem with our council when the SAME sytem was introduced. Rubbish, stinking everywhere!!!

I ended up having to solve it the only way possible - buy more buckets - even that was an issue cos they tried telling me they would only empty one of each kind on the given week, so the extra ones go out without 'the numbers' on and they don't notice...

P.S I will add that the buckets were bought from homebase cos extra buckets from our council were going to cost £50 quid each...:lol

We have one bin between six of us. I was told that I would only be allowed another bin IF I had a family of SEVEN or more, and even then they would have to visit to determine if it was needed and regularily review it.

I said I will buy my own bin and was told that if I did it would not get emptied because it has to be one from their council with their huge logo on it. I said I would buy one from them at a cost of £50 plus VAT - I was told that I was only allowed to have one bin emptied at each collection.

Luckily, there was a bin lying around on my back alleyway for a few eeks which belonged to an empty house, so I saw no other option ;)

The bins have to be seperated when they go out - the bin men sometimes count them. It is totally ridiculous. A 2 weekl collection is a joke in the first place. Introducing the new system was to prevent smells/rubbish everywhere/ cats and dogs routing - it has solved very little. The council are a waste of time :mad:

[chrislane]

Lancaster City Council are great. They collect every week. They do not count how many bags we put out, they just chuck them in the truck. At holiday times we get new bags, printed with revised collection time, so we know when to put the rubbish out.

[oldboy2000]

Lancaster City Council are great. They collect every week. They do not count how many bags we put out, they just chuck them in the truck. At holiday times we get new bags, printed with revised collection time, so we know when to put the rubbish out.


Our council brilliant too (not), I have the official collection times for collection of rubbish over the Christmas /New Year period.....should have collected on Wednesday according to this elaborately printed and expensive notice I have.......yes they came at 7.30am on Tuesday result Gates were all locked..

Perhaps they are like me "Don't know what day it is" ....ah well must go be late for Church on this horrible Sunday Morning :lol

[shano]

We did have a household of 7 here, not that there is much difference between 6 or 7 rubbish wise id suspect...

We're lucky as in the buckets are not labelled, they just have very inconspicious numbers which relate to the house they belong to.

Did they give you instructions for all kinds of rubbish they DON'T take away now and you have to dispose of yourself?

[Nick]

Over a month is an outrage.
I'd put it all in the car and drop it off on the steps of the council with a note explaining why I'd done it.
I'd encourage others to do the same.

I'm 100% serious BTW

[shazam100]

South Devon Council caused the exact problem for me when it began it's crazy government inspired method of recycling. It culminated in 5 weeks worth of garbage rotting in the street. We found the solution was to involve our local and county counsellors, both of whom obviously applied enough pressure to resolve the problem withing a few days.
Had this not worked, we were going to involve the local press, whom we had already asked if they'd be interested in such a 'story' ..to which they said 'yes'. Fortunately, as I said, the problem got sorted by involving the councellors....that's why they're there after all...isn't it ?

P.S. We were going to use Nick's ploy if all else failed !