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Greenwich Council - Health & Safety Gone Mad

NathanPrior
NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
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The other month the Dustbin Truck ate one of the Wheely Bins belonging to my house. Yesterday we were told we can't have a replacement one due to health and safety as my house has 3 steps to the garden. The dustmen aren't even the ones who have to lift it to the road and back down.

Madness.

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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    So what do you do with your rubbish?
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    WSS said:

    So what do you do with your rubbish?

    He talks it.

  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    What were the odds of the truck eating your bin?
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    NathanPrior said:

    The other month the Dustbin Truck ate one of the wheely Bins belonging to my house. Yesterday we were told we can't have a replacement one due to health and safety as my house has 3 steps to the garden. The dustmen aren't even the ones who have to lift it to the road and back down.

    Madness.

    I don't get it?
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    WSS said:

    So what do you do with your rubbish?

    It was the Garden & Food waste bin, got the normal one and recycling one left.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Don't brag, I only have one bin here in Kent.
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Norfolk_Addick said:

    NathanPrior said:

    The other month the Dustbin Truck ate one of the wheely Bins belonging to my house. Yesterday we were told we can't have a replacement one due to health and safety as my house has 3 steps to the garden. The dustmen aren't even the ones who have to lift it to the road and back down.

    Madness.

    I don't get it?
    They say households can't have wheely bins anymore due to health and safety as the houses have steps leading down incase the binmen injure themselves. It's not the binmen who bring the bins up and down from the road.
  • SilentAddick
    SilentAddick Posts: 1,603
    Idiots, the lot of them...
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    WSS said:

    Don't brag, I only have one bin here in Kent.

    We have four or five in Bromley but then we're not in Kent.
  • gilbertfilbert
    gilbertfilbert Posts: 2,282
    Four or five? Hah! We've got 6 here in Canterbury. Beat that.
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    gilbertfilbert said:

    Four or five? Hah! We've got 6 here in Canterbury. Beat that.

    We have food, plastic, glass, paper and general so actually we have five plus we could pay for a garden waste bin as well.

  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    NathanPrior said:

    Norfolk_Addick said:

    NathanPrior said:

    The other month the Dustbin Truck ate one of the wheely Bins belonging to my house. Yesterday we were told we can't have a replacement one due to health and safety as my house has 3 steps to the garden. The dustmen aren't even the ones who have to lift it to the road and back down.

    Madness.

    I don't get it?
    They say households can't have wheely bins anymore due to health and safety as the houses have steps leading down incase the binmen injure themselves. It's not the binmen who bring the bins up and down from the road.
    I expect that mat be true in your case but many of your elderly neighbours will have a 'pull out' service so I expect they are trying to phase out all wheelie bins where residents have steps to negotiate.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    NathanPrior said:

    The other month the Dustbin Truck ate one of the Wheely Bins belonging to my house. Yesterday we were told we can't have a replacement one due to health and safety as my house has 3 steps to the garden. The dustmen aren't even the ones who have to lift it to the road and back down.

    Madness.

    Well I'm sure they'd be more than willing to replace it if you paid tax...
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,737
    I very much doubt that this rule has been created by Greenwich. I know 2-3 people who work in the corporate H&S Team and can assure you that this has more than likely been imposed by the Health and Safety executive.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    gilbertfilbert said:

    Four or five? Hah! We've got 6 here in Canterbury. Beat that.

    Here in the Borough of Chelmsford we have a regular black wheelie, a brown wheelie for garden waste, a green lidded bucket for food waste, a green box for glass and tins, a bag for paper and a bag for cardboard. In addition we are supposed to put out a separate bag for textiles and shoes.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    I just chuck my rubbish out of my front door into the smog tainted cobbled street. Or flush it down my outside lav. Proper Norvern me.
  • pioneer
    pioneer Posts: 169
    Im sure there was a program or news report about all these different bins, when after being collected were basically all tipped in together on barges that took them down the thames to wherever they end up! when questioned the council at the time said this was done because of a lack of resourses.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    pioneer said:

    Im sure there was a program or news report about all these different bins, when after being collected were basically all tipped in together on barges that took them down the thames to wherever they end up! when questioned the council at the time said this was done because of a lack of resourses.

    Working from home I saw this every week. I meticulously sorted my types of rubbish in the appropriate waste receptacle provided by Medway Council, only to see a lorry load of chancers turn up and empty my carefully filed rubbish into the same feckin lorry! I gave up.

  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    You should watch Penn & Teller's 'Bullshit'. A few years ago, they devoted a whole episode to the stupidityof the majority of recycling. One of the more memorable bits showed the lengths people would go to when they believed they were doing their bit for the environment. These poor saps ended up with nine different coloured bins outside their houses. It was a set up, but watching at the time with the missus, I said I don't think its too far off. Looks like I was right.

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