The trouble with council dumps is it's only domestic rubbish they will take for free and that does not include your regular domestic rubbish, for 'commercial' rubbish it has to be paid for and that unfortunately encourages fly tipping. In Ireland it is worse since there seems to be a lot more tipping of ordinary domestic waste such a shame since Ireland has beautiful countryside.
On the positive side there is 'tidy towns' in most area's where local people volunteer their time to clean up the mess.
And did I read that some people now have to use transparent rubbish bags - presumably so that the dustmen can check that nothing illicit is in there? We tend to use the council dump a lot, since going there seems to give my OH inexplicable pleasure and it does get rid of the mess. Most people, I suspect, would not bother and/or would not have time. Payment is the big issue, as you rightly say.
What I don't understand about all this recycling is the discrepency of what councils will and won't take. We are not allowed to recycle yogurt/butter containers or any form of packaging, which I try to avoid anyway. Other councils take the lot. We have two separate boxes for glass/tin and plastic but when it was noticed that these were both emptied into one of their huge wheely bins, started using only one.
What I find really annoying is the 'operatives' who make a decision not to empty your bins because they are further than 1 metre from the edge of your property, or the garden recycling bin's top doesn't quite close. This then involves an e-mail or phone call for a collection the following day. What a waste of money.
This is bloody mindedness on the part of the 'operatives.' There are always one or two! Bin men made my daughter in law (who has rheumatoid arthritis) empty her compost bin and repack it because she had used recyclable bags. Siince they recycle cooked food waste, this was a disgusting job.
We live in a narow lane and the council lorries can't get through, so they send a van. The men pick up the various recycling containers and toss the lot into the back of the van - together. Makes you realise the hypocrisy and muddle involved in it all.
We have two bins, grey for general rubbish and green for garden and food waste. We also have plastic boxes for plastic,paper and glass. The bins are collected on alternate weeks, and the boxes fortnightly. I do not use the boxes as we have several skips in town at the backs of Sainsburys and Waitrose, and like GG's Other Half I find some perverse pleasure in a trip to our very well-managed and relatively clean council dump - interesting place and interesting people working there. Given the facilities dotted around this area I really cannot understand the people who want to despoil the lovely Chilterns, but I can appreciate GG's comments about repressed anger in some people - we also see a lot of that with some car drivers!
Very interesting views GG - can you tell me what your line of work is?
As for Trolls, as a recent convert to using computers for purposes other than work, I struggle to understand how they find the time to be so active and perverse, but more importantly why? ...........all these people around the world too, busy sending viruses here there and everywhere - I'm from a generation that struggles to get our heads around stuff like this! Must be time to plod up the allotment and get rid of my 'anger' and bash a few clods of earth!
I was just a teacher in a comprehensive, dmball, then spent some years after retirement helping teach overseas students. It gave interesting insights into human nature! However, its a relief to be able to do my own thing.
Tina, you are so right! i haven't been posting here for long, just a few weeks, but I am getting adicted. I keep telling myself I will only have a quick look and then I get drawn in. It will have to stop!
Thanks GG. My wife worked for Slough social services, and for some years was a Governor at a large comprehensive school in the town, with responsibilities for dealing with pupil exclusions, and sometimes she had to make decisions after hearing representations from the Headteacher,and parents and their lawyers - she also gained some insights into sometimes strange human behaviour! I suppose we shouldn't be surprised at the daft things people get up to - but like you We now do our own thing, and just make sure that we go through life not making waves that are big enough to disturb others.
Are you speaking for me, GG? Addiction, addiction. My grump is that I can't add anything positive about planting yet, as it's just too early here to start anything, but I am getting a lot of useful info for the future by reading all the posts and amusement too!
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The trouble with council dumps is it's only domestic rubbish they will take for free and that does not include your regular domestic rubbish, for 'commercial' rubbish it has to be paid for and that unfortunately encourages fly tipping. In Ireland it is worse since there seems to be a lot more tipping of ordinary domestic waste such a shame since Ireland has beautiful countryside.
On the positive side there is 'tidy towns' in most area's where local people volunteer their time to clean up the mess.
And did I read that some people now have to use transparent rubbish bags - presumably so that the dustmen can check that nothing illicit is in there? We tend to use the council dump a lot, since going there seems to give my OH inexplicable pleasure and it does get rid of the mess. Most people, I suspect, would not bother and/or would not have time. Payment is the big issue, as you rightly say.
What I don't understand about all this recycling is the discrepency of what councils will and won't take. We are not allowed to recycle yogurt/butter containers or any form of packaging, which I try to avoid anyway. Other councils take the lot. We have two separate boxes for glass/tin and plastic but when it was noticed that these were both emptied into one of their huge wheely bins, started using only one.
What I find really annoying is the 'operatives' who make a decision not to empty your bins because they are further than 1 metre from the edge of your property, or the garden recycling bin's top doesn't quite close. This then involves an e-mail or phone call for a collection the following day. What a waste of money.
This is bloody mindedness on the part of the 'operatives.' There are always one or two! Bin men made my daughter in law (who has rheumatoid arthritis) empty her compost bin and repack it because she had used recyclable bags. Siince they recycle cooked food waste, this was a disgusting job.
We live in a narow lane and the council lorries can't get through, so they send a van. The men pick up the various recycling containers and toss the lot into the back of the van - together. Makes you realise the hypocrisy and muddle involved in it all.
Very interesting views GG - can you tell me what your line of work is?
As for Trolls, as a recent convert to using computers for purposes other than work, I struggle to understand how they find the time to be so active and perverse, but more importantly why? ...........all these people around the world too, busy sending viruses here there and everywhere - I'm from a generation that struggles to get our heads around stuff like this! Must be time to plod up the allotment and get rid of my 'anger' and bash a few clods of earth!
I was just a teacher in a comprehensive, dmball, then spent some years after retirement helping teach overseas students. It gave interesting insights into human nature! However, its a relief to be able to do my own thing.
Which in GG's case is chattering on here all day.
Best go before I get the cane or detention. Accounts calling - not quite loud enough.
Tina, you are so right! i haven't been posting here for long, just a few weeks, but I am getting adicted. I keep telling myself I will only have a quick look and then I get drawn in. It will have to stop!
Are you speaking for me, GG? Addiction, addiction
. My grump is that I can't add anything positive about planting yet, as it's just too early here to start anything, but I am getting a lot of useful info for the future by reading all the posts and amusement too!