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With these fortnightly bin collections in the UK

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
are you getting a lot of flies about? It's fucking disgusting.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Looks like your Council Tax money's being spent wisely then.
  • Gossard_Is_GodGossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    fortnightly?
    Pearl Jam - London Astoria 20/4/06....One hell of a night :)

    Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!

    Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing

    Wembley 2007 :D
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    No flies but for the first time ever I forgot to put the bin out and I don't know what we're going to do with the extra rubbish since they don't collect anything outside the bin!

    I'm going to get some more recycling bins but even then we'll still be topping the bins up with used nappy's and tons of fruit peelings. (My partner and I drink a lot of fruit juice but I refuse to make a compost heap in my small garden).
  • surfanddestroysurfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    It is really bad, it's been like that for quite a few years round here though. It's also really anoying because we keep having our bin stolen by people who think they need more than one.
    Astoria 20/04/06, Leeds 25/08/06, Prague 22/09/06, Wembley 18/06/07,
    Dusseldorf 21/06/07, Manchester 17/08/09, London 18/08/09, LA 06/10/09, LA 07/10/09.

    Ain't gonna be any middle anymore.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Gossard_Is_God wrote:
    fortnightly?


    Fortnightly and in rotation, between green bins and black, yes.
  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    You need to move ;) ... every week here normal bin one day recycling and garden waste bins another day
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Chime wrote:
    You need to move ;) ... every week here normal bin one day recycling and garden waste bins another day


    You'll be next, Londoners. Christ, can you imagine a London with fortnightly bin collections? Ratmongous!
  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    At home the service is great. Every week we have general bins + one of the other bins (alternates between compost, glass and paper).

    At uni on the other hand it's crap. Only half the houses seem to get a glass service, and if they find one single bit of cardboard in the paper bin they leave the entire thing! 3 out of 4 collections our paper bin has a rejection sticker on it (yes, they give stickers saying we've put the wrong things in!). The paper is so pinnickity, they pretty much only take standard paper, no leaflets or cardboard packaging or anything.
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • ChazzChazz Posts: 1,141
    We have a weekly collection of recycling, tins, glass, paper and food which is fine, but they don't take plastic so we take it ourselves to the recycle bins.

    If we didn't do this we'd have too much for the fortnightly collection......its just me and my hubby so its not too bad, but I wonder how families manage on 1 collection a fortnight, it must be a pain
    Dublin, Reading 06
    London, Copenhagen 07
    MSG 08
    SBE, Manchester, London 09
    Dublin, Belfast, London 10
    Manchester, Berlin 12
    Amsterdam, Milton Keynes 14
    London 18
    London 22
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Just interested: what party has the majority in your local council? It's the bloody Lib Dems here. Too busy spending our money on their sex changes.
  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,963
    Someone stole my recycling bin last week :( It's weekly rubbish pick-up and bi-weekly recycling pick-up here. Do you think if there was financial renumeration that people would be more likely to recycle their drinks bottles/cans? At home (BC, Canada) you get 5 cents for anything a litre or smaller and 20 cents for 1.5 litre and wine/liquor bottles. Even if you don't take it back yourself, it gives street people something to earn cash from :)
    "What the CANUCK happened?!? - Esquimalt Barber Shop
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Just interested: what party has the majority in your local council? It's the bloody Lib Dems here. Too busy spending our money on their sex changes.

    Conservative
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