Bristol refuse collection services are totally fecked. Who the feck works out these ideas in their stupid heads? We now get our rubbish collected fortnightly. This has caused enormous consternation in this area. We've had rubbish dumped in loads of places. I've heard several tales of dumping in the flats and elderly peoples accomodation as their rubbish volume isn't checked at all.
The picture is a neighbours recycle bin. She couldn't get anymore in it. She was fretting about what to do. Recycle? Yeah right Bristol. We all know it goes to China landfill. Preposterous nonsense about putting different rubbish into different containers. Do they really think we believe that will have any environmental benefit?
The bin lids are meant to be closed. Have no top rubbish. I've seen the men take a black bag full of rubbish from a bin and lob it up the street in anger. The bin men have turned into some sort of hooligans... rude mad Asbos overnight. Let them come knocking for a Christmas Box this year. I think not.
But the worse bit by far is the ridiculous idea of separating food rubbish. Why? This can't be composted... this stuff is a definite China Landfill move. We all have these small brown bins that smell, have rotting festering and mouldy and maggotty waste food. We have a small brown bin in the kitchen and a big one outside. Kids find it funny to hit them over and see the rotting food all over the pavement. You're meant to firmly shut the lids to stop flies. Everytime I open it I dread what I'll find.
The worse bit was Friday morning. I opened it to find a huge dead rat. This is the second time I've had a rat in the rubbish, the last time was when I went to put stuff in the recycle bin and there was one jumping about in there amongst the food tins. This one was HUGE though.
So guess what? I'm not doing the food bin anymore. It's disgusting, vile and makes me sick.
I'd love to know how other people are getting on... and No not that 'family' from the Official Bristol website. The family coping with the recycling. A blow by blow account of how they're getting on. What a bunch of crap. Quote from the Brislington Bush family.
"The new food waste service reminds me of the old 'Pig Bin' that we used to have when I was a child. I used to love it when the 'Pig Man' came to empty it. Pig farmers used to call the resulting feed 'Bristol Pudding'. Now, of course, it will be turned into compost to put back onto our gardens."
Hilarious... mate you cannot turn half a cooked Cottage pie and the remains of a chinese noodles meal into compost... are you stupid?
Bristol City Council. You're all Idiots.
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So what killed that sweet little rat? Not your cooking by any chance???
I agree this recycling is crap. We have 7 adults and a baby living in our house. Where is all ours supposed to go? Seriously? We have twice as many people in our family as a normal one, plus a baby who goes through god knows how manyu nappies etc a day. Its pathitc. Now we have to ring up to get a 'recycling doctor' out to assess our situation and see if we need more bins etc.. Ever heard anything so rudiculous? x
Recycling isn't the answer, it's a typical local government and new labour con. They're running scared, keep seeing the few stories in the media that realise that something seriously scary is happening with the climate and overpopulation and this is their cosmetic answer.
There are simpler solutions such as reusing bottles. Why not make them in a few standard sizes with deposits? That way they'll all be returned for reuse. Recycling wastes energy, especially when it involves shipping it halfway across the world to be buried in China!
And Trin's right - cooked food CAN NOT be composted. I have a bin at home and I only ever put in raw stuff, and it always rots right down. I don't produce any waste that way! You'd be better digging a hole in the garden for cooked food, or better still leaving it on the steps of the town hall.
And of course a lot of people make a lot of money from recycling which is why it ain't going to change any time soon.
Erm... actually.... you CAN compost those food stuffs. They take a little longer for the enzymes to break down the food but anything that is organic has the capacity to rot down. As to your neighbour's can bin, get the kids to stomp them and they'll take up little space.
I do agree on the recycle rip off though. I'm all for recycling and renewable energy sources and anything that annoys labour... sorry... anything that helps clean the planet (Celtic philosophy was to return to the earth all that you took from it, hence the snake eating its own tail. I have a Celtic heart!) The problem is, as usual, profit.
Remember when the binmen were council employees? 1 wagon, two guys answerable to the council. Now? 3 or 4 wagons (one for each type or crap), 3 guys to each wagon and answerable to a supervisor, who answers to his manager, who answers to an area manager who answers to head office who answer to the directors... ALL of these people have to be paid and even after all that... they still have to make a profit.
So... why has the cost of getting bins emptied gone up on the council taxes do you think?
I never knew i was so passionate about this!
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