howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
it's not what you know but who you know brian.
you must be in with the top brass to be let off with only one wheelie bin.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard,actully i thought it was a bit tight in getting only 1 wheelie bin.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
Don't complain Brian I think you could have hundreds just from the forumites
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,874
I bet somebody will happily swop your blue box for their wheelie.
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
- Posts: 345
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
blimey claire you are being treated as a v.i.p. normally the waiting time for an inspection is 8 weeks.
stop press
had a message from someone trying to exit crafford street into maison dieu road, visibility is nil due to the daleks blocking the sightline.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,874
That is an awful road to get out of at the best of times any break in road traffic means the cars charge out of Morrisons carpark, with a bad sightline it must be hell.
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Jan try it on a bike,I come down Frith Road and turn into Crafford Street it is murder with the cars coming from Morrison's!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,874
Try it as a disabled OAP pedestrian crossing to or from Crafford Street, deep breath and cross fingers and pray.
I know I have said it before but whoever let the car park exit be where it is should be made to spend the day trying to cross Maison Dieu in that area.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
that whole area is a nightmare for pedestrians( fit or disabled), cyclists and motorists, now made worse with the famous bins.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Ray (Plucking man) Newsam, he from beyond normal civilisation, has been quiet of late. However, he did email me yesterday.
"I'm still following the bin saga on the forum, confusion reigns! Having been in the new system for nearly three months now I think I'm a bit of an expert so here's my experience if you want to pass it on -
The green boxes on the calendar are for green recycling if you have it - it doesn't say this in the notes or on the web in so many words as some people still won't get green recycling and so might get confused/jealous, you just have to assume that's how it works and smile when it gets taken away on a green day.
If you're on bags not bins you get allowed either two or four bags per fortnight (depending who you get info from!) for general rubbish (either of which presumably equates to the volume of a wheelie bin) but if you're on holiday and miss a collection you can't put out double for the next collection. We've just had a new roll of purple bags appear on the doorstep overnight although not halfway through the first roll yet.
If the black box now used for paper/card is full, you can still use the old blue bag and it gets taken away but no new ones will be issued.
The only bin collected every week is the food waste and that seems to a separate lorry.
If you think about it it's no wonder there's confusion at present with the various schemes -
The old scheme with green recycling
The old scheme without green recycling
The new scheme with bins and green recycling
The new scheme with bins without green recycling
The new scheme with purple bags and green recycling
The new scheme with purple bags and without green recycling
feel free to copy the above onto the forum if you want,
Cheers
Ray
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
john,just tip me the wink and we could do a swap.
Guest 731- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
- Posts: 241
I'm new to the forum but having read over the past few weeks all the comments about the bins etc I would like to add my comments
I have the black box, blue box,green bag, food bin and purple sacks. I would have liked the wheelie bins but it was impratical where I live. However I cannot praise the bin men enough for the efficient service they provide in collecting all the different waste each week. They always put my boxes and bag behind the gate so they dont blow away and always collect on the days stipulated. Recycling is the way forward and we must remember we are only custodians for this planet so its our duty to look after it for future generations to come.
Just remember these guys collecting the rubbish are only doing their job, so dont shoot the messengers. I'm sure before the wheelie bins arrived, no one gave them a second glance
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
welcome david, now that you have made your first post feel free to give your opinions on other subjects.
you will never be short of a thread to post on.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Welcome to the forum David.
I agree, the bin men do a nasty job made more difficult by those who don't or won't follow the instructions.
We had wheelie bins in Canterbury for many years with no problems.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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In the end though, I know it gives some people a feeling that they are "doing their bit for the environment" or "helping to save the planet" but in the end it still leaves us all the poorer in terms of our quality of life.
Let's face it, like wind turbines, these bins are a blight pure and simple. They add nothing to our lives in fact they just make the streets of our town look damned ugly.
Face up to it they actually contribute more to global emissions of carbon dioxide (if you worry about such trifling things) and clutter the streets. There is no plus side to these things, none whatsoever.
It merely gives rise to more pointless local government jobs, which in these days of cutbacks, we can ill afford.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,874
I am sure that in a few months the bin problems will have sorted themselves out and 99% of them will not be the eyesore that they seem now. In theory there should be less litter blowing around as the cats, seagulls and foxes will not be breaking into sacks.
I am a recycler as I do not want to see more ugly landfill sites being started not because I want to save the planet or any of the other spurious reasons people give.
Welcome David.
I do not think anyone is really blaming the hard working binmen for these teething problems it is their bosses who have made a mess of things, it is just easier to type 'binmen' when having a moan.
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