Plymouth council thinking of charging

[ed_blackadder_1]

For overfilling your rubbish bin and if you put out extra bags good idea or another mad cap scheme ?

[myraandjim]

surely that will just encourage more fly tipping?

[ed_blackadder_1]

Mmmm my thoughts too, how do you police it though

[chickengrandma-2008]

They're going to charge for overfilling your bin??  I don't think they'll make much money, I shouldn't think anybody would want an over filled bin but if they did they'd do it themselves for nothing..  Mad idea if you ask me!!  

[bitsnknots]

If our council started doing that, there are one or two of our neighbours would be charged on a regular basis.  Councils are very good at coming up with mad cap schemes aren't they?  

Our council sends out a glossy magazine every 3 months or so and a copy is sent to each household.  This is a total waste of money. 

[ed_blackadder_1]

Apparently they are also going to refuse to take a bin if the lid isn't totally closed. So what if one of your neighbours thinks eh up my bins too fill I will shove some in my neighbours bin.
Personally we never put out a full bin so if we lived there it wouldn't affect us but I wouldnt put it out until the last minute.

[bitsnknots]

The woman that we have problems with from over the road always has a her bin full to overflowing and they sometimes put some of their rubbish in their nextdoor neighbours bin.  I was going to say I don't know where they get their rubbish from but as they must live on ready meals as she can't cook, won't clean and her mother is daft enough to do her washing and ironing for her.  Her husband takes his shirts for work to a laundry.  The rest of his laundry goes to his mothers.  This thing that lives over the road things she's Gods gift to creation.  I've got news for her - she isn't.

Rant over.

[ed_blackadder_1]

And breathe

[**towery**]

in a couple of places i have lived they refuse to empty is the bin is over-flowing

and to pick up extra bags

its all health and saftey  related

[ilove2patch]

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@**towery** wrote:

in a couple of places i have lived they refuse to empty is the bin is over-flowing

and to pick up extra bags

its all health and saftey  related

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That's what it's like here Towery & you can be fined for putting extra bags out because of the gulls. I don't see it as a negative thing .

[ed_blackadder_1]

I think it should make people think a bit more about what they put out and if it could be recycled. Out of interest how does the fine work.

[ilove2patch]

Not sure. I have never put extra bags out.;) I think you get a warning sticker (& they don't take them) the first time.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Just wondered beats me how much rubbish people put out.

[**towery**]

i forgot to say

if you regularly overfill the bin then you can ask for a larger one

i think the council sends out someone to make sure you are recycling correctly and that you are flattening boxes etc

ive seen stickers on them when they havent been put out for collection that have trick boxes

the  gulls are a pain here too,  ive even seen starlings raiding half open bins

[captainbovine]

It's jackdaws with us, they are a right nuisance. The gulls don't seem to come over the tops of the trees, the estuary is about 10 mins away from us.

I don't know how families manage here though, the bin is quite small, for household rubbish. We have big bags for plastic, foil, cardboard and tins...they are massive! and a food one.

But you would have to be careful of neighbours sneaking stuff into your bin.

[mustavaquid]

One day last year, after the bin men had been, I found a leaflet through my letterbox saying my bin hadn't been emptied because it hadn't been put at the boundary of my property.

I hadn't put it there because it was completely empty. They would have seen that if they had looked. Numpties.

[stroppy*cow]

Our lot won't empty any bin unless the lid closes fully - if the bin is too full for the lid to shut they just leave the bin. They just leave any bags of rubbish. If you want a brown bin (garden refuse) you have to pay an annual charge.

We already have a double size wheelie bin, and we get a weekly collection too (bins are only emptied fortnightly).

There are quite a lot of older people's flats here and they still have bags as they don't have room for bins. Every week they empty my big wheelie bin and the use it to collect up all the bags.

I am not sure about charging for over-full bins, I suspect that it would cost more to administer the charges than they would get in. Perhaps it is just a scare tactic?

[ilove2patch]

My general rubbish bin is hardly ever more than one quarter full. Most of that id plastic fruit & meat containers & in October they will be taking those too. I don't know what people throw away to fill their bins up. So much is recyclable!

[bitsnknots]

We have a brown bin for general rubbish which is emptied once a fortnight.  We have a green bin for garden waste and that is emptied the week that the brown isn't.  We have also got a black box for glass jars and bottles plus cardboard, a pink bag for plastic bottles and tin cans and a blue bag for newspapers.  They are taken every week on the day they come for the bins.  We have given the option of having whats known round here as a food caddy for waste food.  We declined  the offer of the food caddy on health grounds as we thought, along with quite a lot of other people, that it would be a health risk.

[ilove2patch]

We have food caddies I don't see a health risk. They get washed I disinfected & are collected weekly. It's mainly veg peelings & egg shells etc. Sometimes fish & meat bones.