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Bin Collection in Stroud Green
Anyone else find it offensive that the council tell us to leave our rubbish and recycling bins where the bin men choose to leave them? -ie- on our front doorsteps? I recently found a notice on my bin issuing me with these very instructions.
I can think of quite a few reasons why the bin men should exert themselves by walking a few more paces and replacing bins where we choose to put them- in a place most convenient to the resident, not to the council worker.
First, bins lying on front paths are a sure sign there's nobody at home and an invitation to burglars. The council seem unaware that this behaviour makes us vulnerable.
Then, elderly people should not have to lug these bins about after the bin men who can't be bothered to replace them properly.
Also, whose front gardens actually are they? Ours- and we should be able to say where the bins stand on our property, not be told by the council.
Next, we are paying the council extortionate council taxes for this service and they should be respectful towards the tax payers who provide their wages. Remember, they are not doing us a favour. We employ them- the council have no money except money we give them.
Finally, is the council still serving the people or we the people now serving the council?
Why can't council employees be trained to the kind of reasonable standard those in the private sector must maintain if they want to stay in business?
I can think of quite a few reasons why the bin men should exert themselves by walking a few more paces and replacing bins where we choose to put them- in a place most convenient to the resident, not to the council worker.
First, bins lying on front paths are a sure sign there's nobody at home and an invitation to burglars. The council seem unaware that this behaviour makes us vulnerable.
Then, elderly people should not have to lug these bins about after the bin men who can't be bothered to replace them properly.
Also, whose front gardens actually are they? Ours- and we should be able to say where the bins stand on our property, not be told by the council.
Next, we are paying the council extortionate council taxes for this service and they should be respectful towards the tax payers who provide their wages. Remember, they are not doing us a favour. We employ them- the council have no money except money we give them.
Finally, is the council still serving the people or we the people now serving the council?
Why can't council employees be trained to the kind of reasonable standard those in the private sector must maintain if they want to stay in business?
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#1 should surely be: <strong>it's their fucking job</strong>
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"Bins are collected at 10:30am on Monday. You must not put your bins out on the street more than 30 minutes before collection time or you will be fined £200."
At first I looked at it and thought they expected you to stay at home and not go to work every Monday morning until it was bin time. Then I realised all these households must have 24/7 hired help. Guess our area hasn't quite gentrified enough to do this... yet...
Hopefully Lynn's campaign is successful!!
How much to send the link of this thread to LF?
Alternatively...
How much to NOT send the link of this thread to LF?
In my road, Woodstock, (the road the photo of L.F. is taken in) we have multi-dwelling properties and a lot of transient tennants and on top of that very small front yards. The binmen here seem to have no thought of the consequences of where they leave the bins. I know of one case a few doors down where they left the bin, one of those big ones to accomodate all four flats in the house, at the top of the stairs of the basement flat in which lived a disabled lady. She was stuck there until she could find someone to come and move the bin for her. In all fairness to the binmen the actual bin area, which incidently was built by the council for the four council flats in the house, is down some steep steps with a very narrow access and awkward to negotiate. But something has to be worked out there, it's almost impossible to pull a full bin out of the sunken dustbin well. Most of the houses here were council property with purpose built bin areas which are now defunct because of the size on the new wheelie bins. For this reason we often find bins out on the pavement left out by residents and binmen alike. H&S has decreed that the poor binmen mustn't excert themselves by, dare I say it, too much effort. But we should be able to come to a reasonable compromise.
Mack, have a word with your local crew, they'll either quote H&S guidelines at you and point to that stupid little notice or they may even listen to you and put the bin back where you want it.
By the way, it wasn't the binmen themselves who stuck the notice on the bins, although they may have had some input on it, it was one of those 'jobsworths' that was following the crew around.
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