Green Bin Council – Speedy

Well, two members of the council just arrived and that was speedy. When complaining over the phone I’d expected it be a week or so before attention was given but I was wrong them came quickly. I don’t recall offering biscuits!

So they sifted through our rubbish which I’d already tipped all over the back garden, they pointed out most of what we recycled actually couldn’t be recycled by them and would either have to go in the black bin or taken to the recycling center up the road from us.

I then asked about better education of what we can and can’t throw in these bins. The young chap then handed me a brown envelope some moments later which contained information we’d already seen before.

I then raised the point about why some months ago rubbish was taken from our black bin and left. I was told that the refuge collectors should of left reasons why which they didn’t. But I was informed I should either continue to stick this waste in the black bin or take it to the recycling center. Well actually it’s not a recycling center as such, we always call it a dump or a tip. Whether they recycle not is another question.

In the envelope they gave me there was a letter which stated something about a ‘Zero waste strategy’ that they currently have under way.  I find it hard to believe they mean that or even try to meet that goal!

Out of the things we buy from the super market we can not recycle the following in our green bin, despite them taking this rubbish for many years, fresh juice cartons, thin pizza boxes (Not fresh pizza) and quite a lot of other food packaging (Non-contact) which they’d always taken previously.

I’ve calmed down a lot since my first blog this morning on the matter, but I’m still annoyed about all this. I said that if I’m to personally take cardboard and other items to the dump, could I at least request another green bin for storing the rubbish until I take it. They refused and said I could buy a bin from B&Q.

No if they had said something when they didn’t collect the first time two weeks ago then we could of taken measures to ensure they did this week and the next time they take rubbish out of our black bin and leave it in our driveway, I’ll complain again because if it can’t go in either bin then where can it go.

Do not recycle say Doncaster Council – Fly Tipping is better

What the hell is wrong with this world. One week their happily taking our waste and the next their not.

A few months ago the dustbin men where throwing cardboard out of our black bins and leaving them in our garden after instructing us it couldn’t go in our green bins, for those not aware, black bins are for general waste things they consider not recyclable and green bins are for thin cardboard, grass cuttings and such. Now I always thought cardboard could be recyclable but they are the law so we respected this.

Well because they wouldn’t take it in the black bins, we started to put it back in the green bins and they took it hapilly. Well until two weeks ago when our bin wasn’t taken at all with no reason why. We left it and waited until this week and they plonked a big red sticker on our bin with the following information:

“Sorry, we could not empty your bin today as it contains thick or corrugated cardboard.

Please remove this and your bin will be emptied next time

Thank you

For further information and advice on how to reduce, reuse and recycle your rubbish please contact Doncaster Council on 01302 736000

www.doncaster.gov.uk”

So now we have a full loaded bin. The thing to remember is the wife and I live at home and with my mum to take care of any of her needs, medication, driving to appointments, etc. And she’s 72, now what if I was away somewhere with the wife, how the hell do Doncaster Council expect an old aged pensioner to manage, they still expect the expensive council tax which pays for this inadequate service, without doing the work that comes with it.

So put cardboard in the black bin and it’s removed, but put it in the green bin and they refuse to take it. This in my mind means the Doncaster Council is promoting fly tipping because right at this moment in time I’ve just emptied the bin behind my garage because there is no where else for all this rubbish and we can’t wait another two weeks for them to come again.

They either need to take the rubbish or stop charging extortionate council tax which covers this service. If they expect the public to do their job for them and sort through the rubbish then they should better educate the public on what’s required and then pay part of their wage to us.  Over the years, the public has done more and more of the councils work for them yet we pay more and more for them.

I called their number and was rather annoyed, admittedly I swore once to which the young chap on the other end told me he would end the call. I told him that not only did they not take the rubbish, a big stick was placed in the bin that wasn’t their before, he must of thought I meant sticker because he kept changing my words to sticker. He informs me someone will come out to inspect our rubbish. He also accused my of swearing a second time which I didn’t.

Well to be quite frank, this is not enough. We do our bit for the environment, we use reuse bags for shopping, we’re not wasteful with food and try to keep packaging of our foods to a minimum, we only use the car when needed for example picking the wife up from work on late nights because we don’t trust the streets, or the taxi’s. The rest of the time she will use public transport. Our gardening waste goes back into the ground and isn’t wastefully burnt.

Maybe we shouldn’t care for our environment with such idiots running the country, their only ruining it anyway so why not speed the process up.

So once we get rats and disease in our back garden I wonder where Doncaster Council would want us to fly tip next?

We do our bit and they spit in our face!