Advice Legislation on rubbish collection...

[Access Denied]

Ok, since I REALLY can't be arsed to trawl through a load of information I'm turning to the FH barristers. Is there anything that means bin men can legally refuse to take rubbish bags if they're not in the bin? Had some family down last week so more rubbush than usual. Tiny little bin and collection every two weeks. 3 heavy duty bin bags piled nest to the bin and they didn't take them.

I went into the council offices and asked, was basically told it was my problem and they're not interested. Was told to take it down the dump myself, at which point I asked what about those who can't drive, still no interested. I want to know exactly why I'm paying my council tax to have my rubbish collected if they're not going to do it. It's not as if I had left it all over the place. Fucking jobsworths.

 

[Gwadien]

Before you scream at me, Im with you, this one is stupid, BUT, the only reason I can see them doing this is because; if everyone did what you did - the lorry would be full meaning they couldn't finish their rounds? - that's the only excuse I can really think of

 

[old.Tohtori]

Before you scream at me, Im with you, this one is stupid, BUT, the only reason I can see them doing this is because; if everyone did what you did - the lorry would be full meaning they couldn't finish their rounds? - that's the only excuse I can really think of

WAs thinking the same. It may seem like "It's only one bag", but if the garbage guys spend 10 seconds on each house picking up extra stuff, with only 60 houses you're adding 10 minutes on the rounds.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

They are the collectors, they make the terms on which they deem it safe and appropriate to collect, so you have no valid grounds here at all probably.

 

[WPKenny]

The bin men round our way are a pain in the arse.

For the past few months they've not bothered picking the rubbish up from our part of the road.

We phoned, were promised etc but they just never bothered coming back. So the bin sat there for 2 weeks blocking the pavement in the hope that one day we'd get back from work and they'd have come through on their promise.

Eventually they said something about some tree over hanging the road and blocking their path.

The "tree" happened to be a couple of sparsly populated twigs hanging a little lower than the rest of the tree which was where it had always been.

So they arranged for some other branch (sic) of the council to come out and deal with the foliage.

Still a week and a half after the branch was cleared they still hadn't been. The next bin day rolled around, bags were all over, up and down the street, by this time. They still didn't turn up.

We called up and were told that it was due to the branch. We told them it had been cleared well over a week ago. They said they'd get a manager to come round and inspect it.

Bins were collected eventually but they left the bags outside of the bins behind.

So next bin day comes round...surprise surprise....bins not collected.
Further phone calls eventually get them to come back almost a week late.

I'm not too sure what these idiots are playing at. They drive a a small truck. It's designed to fit down narrow streets. Asda, Acado etc, all with similar size vehicles seem to be able to get to our neighbours houses just fine. So why can't this dirty, beaten up truck fit down our road for fear of lightly brushing up against a few leaves?

Jobsworths.

And don't get me started on delivery drivers......

 

[dysfunction]

Next time you see them offer them £10 to take the "excess" rubbish away....
You may find the next time you have "extra" rubbish they will take it away.

Worked for me anyway...

 

[WPKenny]

Just sayin, you know, if the bin bags were on public property and there was nothing in the bags to personally identify you or your property and those bags just happened to be ripped open by wild animals, spreading the contents over the pavement/road and creating a health hazard, then it would the councils job to come by and clear that up. Y'know, *if*.

 

[DaGaffer]

It varies by council. Some councils have a rule that the bin men take everything (e.g. Hammersmith & Fulham dispensed with bins entirely; colour codes sacks instead, and you can put out as many as you want, but ONLY on collection day. Any other day you get a fine, Westminster is similar), others have wheelie bin only. Its quite rare to get a council that's both small bins and not extra bags allowed. You might want to check to see if the council has an excess pick-up service; some do.

Bottom line is the council sets the rules and your only real comeback is at the ballot box.

(NB. Here in Ireland you pay for every bin you put out, but then again there's no Council Tax).

 

[Raven]

Our council have employed a private firm to pick up the rubbish, they didn't bother with our street for a month, despite collecting from the rest of the village. I told them that they either come and picked up the bins or I drop them off at their offices. A few days later they collected them. Though my threat probably didn't get it done, there was a lot of complaining to the council. It was basically agreed that the residents wouldn't leave them alone until they did something about it.

 

[- English -]

praise the tories for bringing back weekly bin collections

 

[rynnor]

You dont have a leg to stand on - sorry. In practical advice I would suggest one bag at the bottom of the bin then empty the other bags into your bin one at a time and jump up and down on them to compress them down.