hee hee - I've just tied my wheelie bin shut. Let's see if the binmen untie it, or don't bother tomorrow... I was looking for a picture on my phone that I took a while ago (but couldn't find it, nevermind) - it was of a tree at the start of a popular dog walk on the Common. This tree was festooned with dog poo in bags....and every day it seemed, more bags arrived. Apparently it was the rangers, trying to make a point by picking up all the "chuck it" poo bags and tying them to the tree at the start of the walk....I wonder if the "bag it and chuck it" people got the point...
Hope the tying strategy is a winner! The rangers decorating the tree...that makes sense. Still, it might make people think that it's the new norm, encouraging people to emulate it. Seriously gag-worthy anyway.
I used to put my "full" poo bags in other people's bins, until my sister-in-law got told off for doing that. Now I carry it until I get to the next garbage can along the way. I have been known to put it in my pocket, too, but only if I'm desperate.
Alice, my old dog, did a poo while we were out. I scooped, but eek, it was summer and I was wearing close fitting shorts. There was no way I was going to ram her warm poo into my pockets against my bum. So, after double knotting it, I tied it to her collar and she happily plodded along with it. We stopped to chat to an elderly lady who was tending her garden. "What is in that little bag?" she asked Alice. "is it your sweeties or something?" My daughter and I nearly suffocated trying not to laugh
When I come to the UK I am always astounded by how difficult it is to recycle there! We always buy lots of stuff to be delivered to my parents, so we have lots of cardboard boxes to dispose of. The two local Tesco stores have recently got rid of all of their recycling bins except clothes and shoes, so you have to either put it in a domestic recycling bin (but it would generally fill one of these and that's not fair on my parents who would then have to wait two weeks to be able to us it themselves) or drive ten miles to the local tip. At home, if I walk to the nearest pub (about a three minute walk), I go past three sets of recycling bins, which get emptied daily.
Here is South Oxfordshire we top the re-cycling league tables with 65.71% of our rubbish recycled. Just about everything except polystyrene and cling wrap goes in the re-cycling bin. The only mistake they made when setting up the system 6 years ago is that the grey (non recycle) bin is about 80% the volume of the recycling bin. Consequently I only put mine out every month or six weeks Three miles down the road in Bucks you cannot put cardboard in the re-cycling bin. It would appear that the less restrictive you are about what can go in the re-cycling bin, the more efficient it is. Molly's deposits are made in the back garden so I just flush them
Sounds as if I'm lucky here in rural France as we don't have recycling bins. You either put everything in your general refuse which is collected every week (Thursday morning by 07:30) or you take plastic, glass, paper, cardboard etc. to the commune recycling bins which are also emptied weekly. Most of the supermarkets have recycling bins for glass, other have a greater range of bins. My local town has poo bins scattered around and also has a supply of poo bags on a roll to encourage people to poop scoop. The local voies vertes, popular walking routes, have poo bins scattered around them as do the local lakes. On the main subject, no I wouldn't use someone else's bin to deposit my poop bag - I would be infuriated if someone used mine to dispose of their rubbish so for me it's a case of do unto others......
Is it just my imagination or are today's binmen far more reluctant to do their job (take away the rubbish) than those of yesteryear? It seems they look for the slightest excuse to actually not take away the rubbish/recycling. I recall my parents leaving a tip for the bin men at Christmas because of the service provided during the year (remember when they actually 'collected' the dustbin from your property and then returned it emptied rather than demanding that it is left kerbside by a specified time? Or that they actually carried a shovel and broom to pick-up any spillages rather than just ignore it?). I don't tip for the service that we receive these days and I don't think many others do either. I think it will come back to bite them though - they'll end up doing so little and doing it so badly that they'll find themselves out of a job. Sorry, thread-hijacking rant over
No, I don't remember ever not having to put the bins at the bottom of the drive. I do remember bin men sweeping up dropped litter and getting a tip at Christmas though....
We have five bins. Compost (which includes cooked food) Garden waste/lawn clippings Bottles and tins Paper and card General waste They empty them once a fortnight and we have to take them to the bottom of the drive on the correct days. They are wheelie bins and the trucks tip them up, the bin men put the bins on the lifter thingie and the truck does the rest. The system works well, I think.
I remember the dust men collecting the bins from the back garden, carrying them out, emptying and returning the bins to the back garden ensuring that they closed gates after themselves. Mind you, now that I'm feeling ancient I also remember the coal man delivering the sacks of coal and emptying them into the coal shed and the rag and bone man coming down the road on his horse and cart.
eek! I would NEVER put a poo-bag in someone else's bin. Lucky to have a fair amount of litter bins & poo bins to place dog waste in, but in the event there isn't any - I always take it home, swinging my little green bags cheerfully. Our rubbish collection sounds like that of rural France - except it is fortnightly. No recycling collections, all goes into one wheelie bin, or glass/cans/plastic/paper can be taken to the many recycling points. MaccieD - Don't feel ancient - when I bought my first house - which I don't feel was THAT long ago, I had a dustbin in the back garden - the bin men came in to collect it.
I don't consider myself ancient but I too remember the round metal bins being collected and carried on the backs of very cheerful bin men. Unfortuately it's every other week now for recylcing and rubbish, miserable bin men that would never help with the bin even when I was 7 months pregnant had forgotten the bin and they watched me drag a very heavy wheely bin all the way down my drive and didn't lift a finger to help me, they did get a piece of my mind that's for sure. Needless to say they never get a Christmas box now . I too remember the coal man delivering and emptying the sacks into the coal shed and the milkman that would let us sit on the back of the float to take us to the swimming pool every day during the school summer holidays - ahh life was so simple then I would never put my poo bags in anyone elses bin, although it's a better option than leaving them on the ground or hanging in trees.
Here where I live we have garbage bins given to us by the Town, and the big truck/machine comes once a week to pick them up and dump contents into the truck. We just moved away from having the actual "garbage men" picking up the bins and dumping them in themselves a couple (3?4?) years ago. As for recycling, all of your recycling goes onto a blue bag, no sorting required, and you can put those bags out twice a month for pick up. We used to have to sort everything, but no longer. I don't get the big deal about putting garbage of whatever sort in someone else's bin. It's garbage. That's a garbage bin. If it was a huge pile of something that took up all the space in the bin, okay, I can see a person objecting. But a poo bag? So what? But I guess people have a thing about it, so, whatever.
We have several poo bins in our tiny village so no need to use domestic ones, so have never really faced this dilemma! All our mainstream recycling goes in one wheelie - no sorting required. Another 2 wheelies for garden refuse and landfill. Brown carry bin for cooked and raw food waste. All pretty straightforward. Anything else we take to the recycling centre about a mile away.
Omg you all have such complicated waste disposal.... And I thought ours was bad!! There's a brown bin for food waste, a green or black recycling bin for anything recyclable (they like you to sort it but it's not mandatory) and that's the basics! We pay extra for a green wheelie bin and collection which is garden waste; grass cuttings etc Anyway back to dog poo disposal!! I'm lucky in that Penny mostly goes in the garden so I pick it up every other day or so, all poo bags into a carrier back and in the dustbin. I have spotted other peoples bagged up dog poo in my bin before and it does kind of annoy me but I figure it's better than them not picking it up at all. Our local council have gotten rid of the designated dog poo bins so they are quite a rare sight around my way now, but you can put dog poo in any bin so it's not so bad. In an emergency a bagged up poo will fit in my treat bag hahaha (but I always double bag it if I'm doing that)
