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I'm in favour of the fines.

Getting your rubbish correct really isn't hard.


Yeah - just burn it in an old oil drum.


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just burn it in an old oil drum.

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Perhaps whilst wearing a donkey jacket and picketing the local council offices?

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Perhaps whilst wearing a donkey jacket and picketing the local council offices?

Yes. That could be an option.


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I'm in favour of the fines.

Getting your rubbish correct really isn't hard.

Why not bring back flogging?

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rustybucket wrote:
I'm in favour of the fines.

Getting your rubbish correct really isn't hard.

Why not bring back flogging?

Why not just do it right in the first place?

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I'm in favour of the fines.
Getting your rubbish correct really isn't hard.

Why not bring back flogging?

Why not just do it right in the first place?

Who, the houseowners or the council?


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Why not just do it right in the first place?

Who, the houseowners or the council?

The houseowners

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I'm glad of the change in an entirely selfish way. The only place we can put our bins is by the side of the house. This is next to a pathway walked by several thousand students on a daily basis. Helpfully, there are no other bins in the immediate vicinity (and the council won't put one in due to some metric that completely misses the point). So, all these students dump their random crap in our recycling bins, regardless of whether it qualifies or not.

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I'm glad of the change in an entirely selfish way. The only place we can put our bins is by the side of the house. This is next to a pathway walked by several thousand students on a daily basis. Helpfully, there are no other bins in the immediate vicinity (and the council won't put one in due to some metric that completely misses the point). So, all these students dump their random crap in our recycling bins, regardless of whether it qualifies or not.

It probably meant that many such charges could have been challenged and overturned costing the council a fortune in legal fees. Simpler to avoid that prospect. It is good that they are targetting fly tippers. The fines for that should be a lot higher.

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I'm glad of the change in an entirely selfish way. The only place we can put our bins is by the side of the house. This is next to a pathway walked by several thousand students on a daily basis. Helpfully, there are no other bins in the immediate vicinity (and the council won't put one in due to some metric that completely misses the point). So, all these students dump their random crap in our recycling bins, regardless of whether it qualifies or not.

It probably meant that many such charges could have been challenged and overturned costing the council a fortune in legal fees. Simpler to avoid that prospect. It is good that they are targetting fly tippers. The fines for that should be a lot higher.


Tried that avenue when they first sent a snotty note about it. We were told that we were responsible for what went in our bins. Given that we don't ever actively put our bins out, we could probably fall back on 'they weren't put out to be taken' if need be.

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Here’s a Daily Mail story on the subject. I like the use of the word “Gestapo” which is peppered throughout the story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... e-bin.html

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Tried that avenue when they first sent a snotty note about it. We were told that we were responsible for what went in our bins. Given that we don't ever actively put our bins out, we could probably fall back on 'they weren't put out to be taken' if need be.

Sounds like jobsworths. Nothing you can do when that happens.

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