| Topic: | Re:wheelie bins too big and redundant | |
| Posted by: | Anne England | |
| Date/Time: | 17/12/15 13:35:00 |
| I have exactly the opposite problem in that I (as a single/sometimes two person household which recycles hugely) have a half full 30L bag per week which spends all of an hour - or occasionally overnight - in the wheelie before the bin men come and pick it out - yes, pick it out and who can blame them. For this I am obliged to house a 140L plastic thing right next to my front door in my very small frontage 365 days a year. It seems that barring accessibility, the only criterion/qualifying question used was 'Would a wheelie fit in this space' rather than 'How would the system work, given that residents are not supposed to put any bin or recycling container on the pavement, for houses with very small frontages which will oblige the householder to move the bin out of the way every time they want to put something into the recycling and for the recycling men (x3 in any given week) to have to move the wheelie bin out of the way in order to get to the recycling and to replace it after?' (which of course they don't). In other words, I do everything the Council is asking of me but as a result am grossly inconvenienced and my recycling is not seen or taken by the recyclers due to being walled in by the front wall of the house, two boundary walls and the wheelie. It seems to me that 'Will a wheelie fit in that space?' is a closed question in that in most cases the answer will be that yes, it will physically fit (just) but how the system would be managed was never considered. In my opinion this therefore negates the 'exercise'. A one-size-fits-all approach does not always work and I would have hoped that somebody at the Council would have had the where-withall to ask a few questions instead of in essence rubber-stamping an ill-thought out scheme. I do accept that wheelies are probably the best option in some circumstances and particularly for those with larger frontages who aren't totally inconvenienced by them. I also would have been much more accepting of a mixed mode recycling bin than I am of the general waste wheelie. |