Bin Collection - Side Waste


Soon there will be an added fee for all your bins plus a small fee each year for your street cleaning and so on which will not be taken off the council tax.
Once that's all done then they'll put up your council tax again then think up another money-grabbing scheme.

Hartlepool is one of the biggest rip-offs for council tax and they rarely clean our streets now. You have to beg them and their answer's usually "oh the funds prevent us from doing it."
The same goes for street weeding.
They're turning this place into a slum.
Another one who’s fallen for the Tory strategy of cutting funding to the bone and then blaming the local councils. Thick as pig shit.
 
Another one who’s fallen for the Tory strategy of cutting funding to the bone and then blaming the local councils. Thick as pig shit.
It's constant. Not hard to work out if there's cuts there less staff, and if there's less staff those remaining won't have time to be scraping everyone's shite off the back lane once their bin bags have split.
 
It's constant. Not hard to work out if there's cuts there less staff, and if there's less staff those remaining won't have time to be scraping everyone's shite off the back lane once their bin bags have split.
Bin collection is a relatively small part of the budget. Social care is the big one and we all know which way costs are heading there.
The bin collection is more driven by targets for recycling
 
They’re meant to be doing a public service and there’s caveats left right and centre.

It’s not like this is every house on the route, but if there’s someone who has excess cos they’ve had a clear out or something then they should be collecting everything. They were doing this decades ago when they had to lump those massive static bins over their shoulders to empty. Always used to have brushes on side if wagon to clear up anything that’s dropped out.

Just becoming lazier
Absolute horseshit.
 
And what happens when the bag is ripped and they pick it up and the rubbish all falls out. They supposed to hang about sweeping it up?

The point is not to put loose bags out. They're not leaving them there all day if you don't put them out.

There's a group follows the bin wagons and collects spilt rubbish. I guess due to cost cutting they're going to stop this hence the reason for no side waste.
 
What is the reasoning behind not taking side bags? Just seems to be a rule for the sake of a rule. Not hard to lob it in the back with everything else

I don’t know but do the lorries not have a specific capacity? Presumably people leaving side bags out will affect the efficiency of how many houses each route could collect?
 
Few people in my street are going to struggle with that. Family up the street produce more bags than the Waltons at Christmas.

Not disagreeing with you but how many is in your household?
4, so isn't bad as nappies just about out the way. Used to be tight on occasions and still always have recycling side waste, which is ok in Durham. If you have 5 or 6 adults in a house then you should likey have two bins
I don’t know but do the lorries not have a specific capacity? Presumably people leaving side bags out will affect the efficiency of how many houses each route could collect?
Exactly. Planning is likely complicated, depending where the landfill is.
 
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Just a reminder that as from today Sunderland Council Refuse Collection will not collect anything that is not in your wheelie bin. Even if it is in a black bin bag it will not be collected. It must be in the bin.
From the council that is actively working to prevent fly-tipping

...and foxes.
The same council that goes around collecting dozens of bags of rubbish collected by local volunteers in the Washington area. ?

They really don't think it through do they ?

Presumably because all the rubbish that has been collected can't go in the collector's own bins.
You can get a larger bin capacity I think though

Some of my neighbours have the green larger capacity ones.
 
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Is this the same case with the recycle blue bin or is it just for general shite in the green bin.

Usually have loads of cardboard and occasionally had it flattened and next to the blue bin when I couldn’t get anymore in
Green only i think
 
Someone I know lives over near Summer hill Park in central Newcastle, they have to pull their bins to a communal parking space at the end of their terrace. So basically the residents use this space as a free dump. The bin wagon comes and empties all the bins, followed an hour later by 3 lads in a big caged flat back who take everything else. There's regularly beds, wardrobes, mattresses, furniture, appliances, loads of of extra black bags, they get rid of all sorts of shite for nixy. The lass who lives there said they wait until dark, chuck anything on the pile they want rid of and it gets collected. No comebacks. It's a joke.
 
Must admit I’d thought for years that anything placed next to your bin was been taken as a favour. Day to day I think the current bins are adequate but a few tip visits are year are usually needed (cracking day out in fairness I’m surprised they don’t charge an entry fee). If you are creating vast amounts of rubbish and don’t have a car either eat/drink more sensibly or hire a skip.
 
It says you can be assessed to see if you qualify for a larger blue bin if you need one for medical reasons but I'm unsure if I would get one. I'd only need a bigger one once every 8-10 weeks (depending on when they're delivered), the rest of the weeks the one I have now is big enough.

Also when I rang and asked if I could get an extra green bin due to my adult daughter being in nappies they refused and said I couldn't. So I hid mine a few weeks later and said it had been stolen and I paid £25 to get a new one. I have 2 now.
Due to your circumstances it would be an absolute disgrace if you didn’t get a bigger bin tbh.
 
This has been in place in all other Councils in the North East for years. It’s also going to be £100 fine for any side waste left.
 

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