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.

[Deskdiary]

In my experience there's rarely any logic in anything my council does.

Civil servants shouldn't be allowed to run a bath on their own, so the mind boggles that they're put in charge of running a council. The clue is in their name; they should serve the people that pay them, not sit in judgement of them.

"Spock would have a thromby" Brilliant. Love that. I'm going to steal that and claim it as my own.

[aelmpvw]

1,300 residents without bins? how many staff will the council employ to deal with the undoubted increase in fly tipping?

[ummmm]

I assume they can buy bin bags.

[waterboatman]

Hitler is alive and living in Huddersfield.

[david small]

It’s all very well bemoaning council despotic behaviours. But what to do about them? We seem to be in a spiral of authoritarianism, and have been disabled from any meaningful response that can curtail this unacceptable development. How to reverse this? Voting out one lot, just adds a different head to the hydra.

[waterboatman]

Very well put David!

[cassa333]

I would just put my recyclables in the waste bin. Then they’d get no recycling.

Counter productive but they do need to find a way to ensure that it isn’t contaminated.

[ummmm]

Go back to bin bags. I use council supplied green ones for household waste and I buy white ones for recycling.

I know plastic is a concern but surely in a world where they can perform face transplants they could invent biodegradable ones.

[douglas9401]

I imagine the order has come down from on high. Some relatively senior operative with no life, friends or hope and who has a doubtful bathing regime will eventually be identified.

Unless they've already died alone.

[steg]

I think it’s more to stop people (like one of my neighbours )who refuses to recycle and fills his recycle bin with all rubbish which will have to be sorted at recycling plant costing lots of money, so snoopers may save money in long run

[woofgang]

but taking his recycling bin away won't make him recycle

[ummmm]

Like I said earlier, we don't have wheelie bins, just boxes, and people steal them.

Plus if you're out when the bin trucks come you can come home and passer bys have chucked their rubbish in them so you end up picking up other peoples rubbish and recycling it.

[JF85]

Too right, Steg. I remember stories of truckloads of recyclable waste being diverted to landfill because they were contaminated by a single binload of other rubbish, at a cost of thousands of pounds.

All the effort that conscientious citizens put into sorting rubbish goes out the window because of one selfish person.

I also heard the manager of a recycling centre being interviewed, however. He said that the technology he has is able to separate all dry rubbish. The only thing it cannot cope with is food and other wet stuff (nappies, sanitary wear).

[ToraToraTora]

in all of this I cannot comprehend why it's so difficult to use the correct bin.

[steg]

//but taking his recycling bin away won't make him recycle //
Correct, but he won’t be able to send contaminated stuff to recycle centre

[ToraToraTora]

I often wonder whether people really are that stupid, or they are protesting somehow.