Is There Any Logic To The Council's Reasoning?

[albaqwerty]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/council-seizes-and-impounds-1300-bins-as-punishment-for-residents-failing-to-recycle/ar-AABvssa?ocid=spartanntp

Huddersfield employed bin-snoopers? I'd have thought any council would have better reasons to spend 'their' money on.

[Peter Pedant]

oh dear you have just had the council elections

I had a sticky on my blue paper bin - which only contains paper yap yap yap
and then someone had stuck another black bin in it ....
Manchester has abandoned this because

[douglas9401]

They may be checking for bin laden.

[ichkeria]

Using your recycling bin for the wrong reason.
Warned several times and finally lose it.
Can’t really see they can complain.

[wolf63]

Someone pinched our recycling bins a few years back. There is enough space at the bottom of the stairs for 4 general waste bins, it seems pointless to ask for replacement recycling bins as there is nowhere for them to go.

[Old_Geezer]

Since the residents pay for the council, maybe the residents should sack the lot of them. He who pays the piper ... ought not be assaulted with the pipes ?

[wolf63]

douglas - "They may be checking for bin laden" well they will be upset looking through mine - lots of nappy sacks full of cat litter etc.

[shoota]

There is no logic: 'fail' to recycle so remove the ability to recycle...
Spock would have a thromby.

[ichkeria]

If I was one of the people employed to empty the bins and I kept having to put nappies etc back in the places they weren’t meant to be put then I think I would be cheering loudly.

[-SharonA-]

Utterly ridiculous!!! Payment for 12 bin snoopers and the cost of removing confiscated bin must amount to a tidy sum that can be used elsewhere in the area.

[albaqwerty]

PP no local council elections here.

I can see both sides, however I did like one of the quoted comments
''we have no control over anyone putting rubbish in our bin''
obviously, but who would carry a nappy and put it in someone's bin?
ugh :D

[woofgang]

alba, its not unheard of.

[jno]

Ichkeria, PP’s post is significant. Once you put your bin out you can’t stop passers-by dumping stuff in them. The council can’t prove the inappropriate rubbish is from the bin owner and unless they can provide residents with lockable bins they should hesitate before “punishing” anyone. Their job is to serve residents, not judge them.

[ummmm]

It's hard to control what goes in the bin unless you live alone. My boys are terrible for chucking everything in the bin.

Luckily we don't have wheelie bins here.

[albaqwerty]

there are weird people in this world Woofie, no doubt about it.

[woofgang]

so, assuming that it was the householder who put stuff in the wrong bin, now they have to put all their recycling in the waste bin so they don't recycle anything? So now they don't have to do any sorting? sounds good to me!

[albaqwerty]

We started off with a brown wheelie bin for garden rubbish. as well as the grey bin for everything else.
The we had a blue bin for cardboard, paper, glass (not broken but washed out) plastic bottles (rinsed) but no plastic bags.

After a bit more wasted money with food waste buckets, they've gone and changed content requirements and given us a green bin which is for plastics, glass and tins.

[New Judge]

There is a well-known principle which suggests that if you bestow power upon unsuitable people they will always, always abuse it. Nowhere is this more evident than among local councillors and their officers. Successive governments have allowed local authorities to move from being servants of local taxpayers, tasked with facilitating the services for which they pay heftily, to becoming tyrannical organisations which seek to impose petty regulations on the people who pay them.

Rubbish collection is one such topic. It used to be easy: you put your rubbish in a bin, the dustcart collected it and it was the Council’s business what they did with it. Not now. Residents are expected to sort their rubbish into various categories. That’s not too onerous (though for some items you need a degree in chemistry to establish the chemical composition of your rubbish). But it doesn’t end there. As demonstrated in this farcical episode householders have to ensure their rubbish is not “contaminated” before they throw it away. How they are supposed to do this when they are also urged to not use water or energy is anybody’s guess. But the penalty is as severe as it is ridiculous – you have your dustbin “confiscated”.

Local authorities need to be instructed by government (under whose devolved powers they operate) to make their residents’ lives easier, not to turn them into petty criminals. Better than that they can abolish local authorities entirely and simply farm out essential services to private organisations who will get on with the job in hand without demonising their customers.

[Baldric]

Well said NJ

[albaqwerty]

couldn't agree more NJ

[ummmm]

All our recycling goes together and I put it in recycling tie bags.

The boxes we are supplied are pathetically small.