Another Binman Fiasco-Stoned.

[Major Starbold]

Council tax goes up and our bin service in particular gets worse IMO.
Dump it anywhere and the council will soon get the message.

Daily Express | UK News :: Binmen refuse rubbish because of stones

BINMEN REFUSE RUBBISH BECAUSE OF STONES

FURIOUS home owner James Bilton held binmen hostage when they would not empty a recycling wheelie bin saying it contained five small stones.

Jason Bilton, a father of two, sparked a 60-minute stand-off after blockading the street with a string of residents’ bins and recycling boxes.

The bin lorry and three crew members were trapped at the end of the cul-de-sac while Mr Bilton – still in his pyjamas – pleaded with them to see common sense.

They had refused to empty his neighbour’s brown wheelie bin because they found the stones mixed into garden waste.

[Ben]

I hope that Bilton bloke is locked up for that.

[sweeny todd]

I hope that Bilton bloke is locked up for that.

why should he be ? its about time people stood up against stupid red tape and for the want of any other words stupid bylaws , the dustmen were just being ornery and possibly lazy gits !

[karnautrahl]

Fraid I'm on the Bilton bloke's side here. The binmen were acting like arsehole jobsworths...of course they're not the only ones responsible..the real fucking idiots are these nazi style wankers coming out with stupid pain in the arse regulations and rules and just general tape bullshit that will make life in general harder for people. How does this increasing list of regulations make life harder? There's been plenty of cases of sheer stupidity in regulation where fines are handed out and bins not emptied because of this kind of bullshit.

We pay for a service-we should get it. No fucking compromises.

There...I felt like ranting that out :P
Seriously I hope the folks in charge of rubbish and recycling chop out much of the bullshit red tape that they seem to want in right now.

[sweeny todd]

lets just hope that common sense will prevail in the end and stop all this madness !

[Vicarious]

why should he be ? its about time people stood up against stupid red tape and for the want of any other words stupid bylaws , the dustmen were just being ornery and possibly lazy gits !

The dustbin men were lazy gits? you sure that's right? Possibly the bin should have been kept clear of potentialy damaging stones right?

How about this:
The dustbin men were stubborn yes, and i doubt they considered leaving a note saying why they had not collected the incorrectly sorted rubbish. That way the possibly lazy neighbor's behaviour could be corrected for next time.

Common sense is such a tricky one, in this case "common sense" required compassion on the part of the binmen. Is that in their job description?

Mr Bilton was certainly not a compassionate man gulity of cronyism maybe? he could have registered his protest with the binmen, seen they were not interested and rather than upsetting them, making them late and potentially affecting a wider community, he could have shown the ultimate compassion and sifted out the stones out himself! If there were five stones maybe there were more incorrectly sorted things in the rubbish? Because you can never be to carefull...

[sweeny todd]

The dustbin men were lazy gits? you sure that's right? Possibly the bin should have been kept clear of potentialy damaging stones right?

How about this:
The dustbin men were stubborn yes, and i doubt they considered leaving a note saying why they had not collected the incorrectly sorted rubbish. That way the possibly lazy neighbor's behaviour could be corrected for next time.

Common sense is such a tricky one, in this case "common sense" required compassion on the part of the binmen. Is that in their job description?

Mr Bilton was certainly not a compassionate man gulity of cronyism maybe? he could have registered his protest with the binmen, seen they were not interested and rather than upsetting them, making them late and potentially affecting a wider community, he could have shown the ultimate compassion and sifted out the stones out himself! If there were five stones maybe there were more incorrectly sorted things in the rubbish? Because you can never be to carefull...

possibly major never saw that side of it as i get infuriated with red tape and PC these days , but the binmens jobs are not a particulary hard ones these days as it was in the past when they had to hoist the whole bin over there shoulder and then return it to the place picked up , and as for this recycling lark very few authorities see it through in the correct manner , your waste can sometimes find its way to an open tip in india as a tv programme quite recently highlighted! as for where i live we have no recycling bins at all i wish we had as it annoys me with the amount of paper waste i have to put in the bins each week with no chance of it getting recycled !!

[Vicarious]

possibly major never saw that side of it as i get infuriated with red tape and PC these days , but the binmens jobs are not a particulary hard ones these days as it was in the past when they had to hoist the whole bin over there shoulder and then return it to the place picked up , and as for this recycling lark very few authorities see it through in the correct manner , your waste can sometimes find its way to an open tip in india as a tv programme quite recently highlighted! as for where i live we have no recycling bins at all i wish we had as it annoys me with the amount of paper waste i have to put in the bins each week with no chance of it getting recycled !!

Haha, the paper waste down my street is phenomenal! mostly flyers advertising "naughty music rooms" though. The biggest waste has to be electricity. Cardboard is collected in huge stacks on a wagon pulled by an old man or lady. They are bent over double some times pulling those things. I don't think they would complain about stones.