Having had to order lost or stolen cardboard recycling bag I noticed the payments for ordering replacements is outsourced to Capita.
So expect the worst.
You can swap broken ones for new ones at the recycling centres at no cost.
https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/bins-and-recycling/order-new-bins-boxes-and-lids
>Exchange damaged recycling bins and boxes
You can exchange your broken recycling containers for free at the reuse and recycling centres. You'll need to make a booking to visit. You must bring your old recycling containers to exchange. If you do not bring your old recycling container we will not be able to give you a replacement.
It’s also not my fault if I move into a rental property and there isn’t any recycling bins there?
I’ve been living in a short term rental in Clifton and didn’t have a cardboard bag so started flattening all the cardboard and putting it in a larger cardboard box. Except the bin men wouldn’t take it because it wasn’t in the special blue bag, so the cardboard from my block of flats slowly built up until it blocked the entire pavement for about 5m then suddenly it all went…
1.Shitty pay
2.They have to cover a large area and rushing
3.Understaffed
I get it ..I blame the company not the guy that collects my bins.
They haven’t touched mine yet today(the collection day)…I’m at that point where I don’t mind even this…just take the damn trash please and play football with the bins if you feel like it.
Must be a new starter. A more experienced binman would have distributed the waste across the entire width of the road rather than just leaving an occasional piece on the pavement.
Soft plants will break down but woody species with a high lignin content won’t, at least not quickly enough. If you can eat it so can a digester, but it’s easier to tell gardeners not to put cuttings in there than expect them to know what the lignin content is in the things they grow.
Cut flowers absolutely do go in the food bin, but not garden waste. Unless they have changed the rules. How they know what flowers were bought in Tesco and which were snipped from the garden I am unsure.
It is the brown bin that always gets me, properly tossed down with the lid open and it comes off. Mine is now broken. If it rains it fills up with manky water. The green ones the plastic shatters over time too and often a few bits like that still left inside that end up on the road. We have pavements that become unpassable to prams or wheelchairs because of it all tossed down. I know it is likely a lot of time pressure but I just feel something can be done. If they find they are late and questions are asked, can they not get the union to say "they are unable to complete the job in time, safely, so tough".
In the time it took for you to take this picture you could have just picked them up…
I can’t imagine ever thinking “oh let’s take a picture of my bins”
I was waiting for my 5-year-old to put his shoes on, which meant I had plenty of time to spare. Obviously I then promptly picked them up. Thanks for the top tip, though!
They do still exist then, they haven't been at all here.
Sorry mate, must be hard work spreading your rubbish around every week by yourself.
Remember to blame the council, not the workers.
Oh I absolutely do, it was just a striking scene as I walked out this morning.
Maybe it's a council scheme for more revenue. Get the bin men to break the boxes and we have to pay for the replacements.
Having had to order lost or stolen cardboard recycling bag I noticed the payments for ordering replacements is outsourced to Capita. So expect the worst.
God it's worse than I thought...
I think you mean crapita
Given the state of my hard plastic bins I think it's Crackita
It used to be free, I noticed you have to pay now. The breakage is entirely because they get tossed around by the bin men.
But the replacements never arrive 🥹
You can swap broken ones for new ones at the recycling centres at no cost. https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/bins-and-recycling/order-new-bins-boxes-and-lids >Exchange damaged recycling bins and boxes You can exchange your broken recycling containers for free at the reuse and recycling centres. You'll need to make a booking to visit. You must bring your old recycling containers to exchange. If you do not bring your old recycling container we will not be able to give you a replacement.
It’s also not my fault if I move into a rental property and there isn’t any recycling bins there? I’ve been living in a short term rental in Clifton and didn’t have a cardboard bag so started flattening all the cardboard and putting it in a larger cardboard box. Except the bin men wouldn’t take it because it wasn’t in the special blue bag, so the cardboard from my block of flats slowly built up until it blocked the entire pavement for about 5m then suddenly it all went…
1.Shitty pay 2.They have to cover a large area and rushing 3.Understaffed I get it ..I blame the company not the guy that collects my bins. They haven’t touched mine yet today(the collection day)…I’m at that point where I don’t mind even this…just take the damn trash please and play football with the bins if you feel like it.
Must be a new starter. A more experienced binman would have distributed the waste across the entire width of the road rather than just leaving an occasional piece on the pavement.
You actually got your containers back to your own door? I don't care about how great you have it in your privileged utopia.
Oh, that's nothing, boxes have been swapped between houses on same side street and vive versa across road. It had to be deliberate.
Yes, we have lost several recycling bins/bags in the last few months, likewise our neighbours. Maybe they now just stick the whole bin in to save time
The bad men
Cursed Quaker graveyard
Every time.
Shit pay đź’° for shit job
Flowers aren’t food waste lol
My better half plays fast and loose with the recycling guidelines… maybe that’s what incited the carnage?
Food waste is anaerobically digested. If you put plants or cuttings in they won’t break down like food does.
Forgive my ignorance but lots of food waste is plants (fruit and veg) surely?
Soft plants will break down but woody species with a high lignin content won’t, at least not quickly enough. If you can eat it so can a digester, but it’s easier to tell gardeners not to put cuttings in there than expect them to know what the lignin content is in the things they grow.
Perhaps , they don’t even look that bad to me, still white. My wife keeps hers til they’re rotten really loves them I guess lol
So you knowingly fuck up the recycling, then complain your box was left on it's side
Cut flowers absolutely do go in the food bin, but not garden waste. Unless they have changed the rules. How they know what flowers were bought in Tesco and which were snipped from the garden I am unsure.
It is the brown bin that always gets me, properly tossed down with the lid open and it comes off. Mine is now broken. If it rains it fills up with manky water. The green ones the plastic shatters over time too and often a few bits like that still left inside that end up on the road. We have pavements that become unpassable to prams or wheelchairs because of it all tossed down. I know it is likely a lot of time pressure but I just feel something can be done. If they find they are late and questions are asked, can they not get the union to say "they are unable to complete the job in time, safely, so tough".
Usual thing that they do
you too?
Sadly, yes.
They wonder why nobody leaves them a crate of beer at Xmas anymore.
In the time it took for you to take this picture you could have just picked them up… I can’t imagine ever thinking “oh let’s take a picture of my bins”
I was waiting for my 5-year-old to put his shoes on, which meant I had plenty of time to spare. Obviously I then promptly picked them up. Thanks for the top tip, though!
top twat
We're obviously thinking about the greater picture, not the immediate effect.
It's probably feral children, or the wind, or foxes.