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1st September 2016 #1
Rubbish Bin Collection
How often does your wheelie bin get collected? We just got a notice that we will start to replace the fortnightly collection by 3 weekly collection on October. Now we recycle a lot in this house and in our village, but even with fortnightly, we are already struggling with the rubbish bin because we have animal wastes (we have guinea pigs). We usually go to the tip (10 miles from us) to dump the ones that won't fit in the bin, and now that it'll be collected every 3 weeks, we surely know it will stink the garden and probably in the village!
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1st September 2016 #2
Once a week, on a Wednesday
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1st September 2016 #3
Every Monday for me.
Three weeks seems a long period to wait. Has Keith paid the Council Tax?
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1st September 2016 #4
It's the whole Conwy Council. If the collection is on a Monday, they are collected every 4 weeks! Ours are collected on a Tuesday so it'll be every 3 weeks! Flipping council!
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1st September 2016 #5
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Vote them out, completely unacceptable. We get weekly collections for recycling and normal waste. Garden waste every 2 weeks.
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1st September 2016 #6-=rayna.keith=-
...When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...
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2nd September 2016 #7
Take your extra black bags to the council steps, that may sort them out, surely this could turn out to be a health hazard
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2nd September 2016 #8
Our bins are collected every other week, blue bin one week black bin the next week and so on
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2nd September 2016 #9
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2nd September 2016 #10
We put our bin out once every two months and they are still hardly half full, been recycling for over 25 years now, if we get a big box like a large TV box I always stand next to the bin and tear it up into approx. 2inch pieces and they hardly take up any space also hedge and tree cuttings cut them up and put them in garden compost bin, neighbors have always said I'm crazy but the satisfaction from doing these things is everything is nice and tidy and never had problems with the bin men, also every time I clean and polish my car I do the wheelie bins also
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2nd September 2016 #11
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2nd September 2016 #14
Yes I do also when emptied I just pour half a bucket of bleached water in the bin and brush with my soft sweeping brush to make it nice and shiny, and my brush is nice and clean too. When we lived in our apartment in Dumaguete we were in a first floor apartment and the steps plus a long veranda which ran along sixteen apartments was also mopped every morning at 4.30 am by me and it looked amazing and after about three months the owner got the security guard to do it at 4.30 am, he worked 15 hours a day for p200 so I used to give him p100 every day and he was a lovely young man
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2nd September 2016 #15
Can you remember the good old days when all you had was a small metal tub as a bin, in those day the bin men would come to your house empty that bin into there bin and swing it on there shoulder and off they went down to the lorry, if you had any other rubbish he would come back and do the same.
When we was kids we use to chuck the extra bags into the back of the truck while they watch over us, and at Xmas there was always a few bob in a envelope for the bin men for all there good work,
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2nd September 2016 #16
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2nd September 2016 #18
How many of you clean your rain gutters every year? because I do and have done it for over 30 years, look what happens over the years when they are not cleaned, plus these jobs help keep you fit and save you lots of problems long term
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2nd September 2016 #19
Michael, is the house yours or are you renting, now at your age going up ladders to the roof line i think is a little silly when there is no need, you have to sometimes think " what i am doing is it worth it",
When its your own home there are jobs that you can do yourself and it only takes a few hours, but every year cleaning your gutters is a little to much , well thats unless you live in a forest.
I have just had my chimney re-pointed and 12 frost effected worn bricks replaced and these was on the first floor so a ladder was needed, all this was done in 1 day , a fantastic job was done and all for £260,
I am sorry to say at your age yes keep fit by doing certain but climbing ladders i would say is not one.
When you say you are cleaning out your gutters is there someone holding the ladder while you are up there.
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2nd September 2016 #20
We have 2 big compost bin but it's already overflowing and we just empied it a couple of months ago. We change the guinea pigs beddings every 2/3 days or the house will stink. We have to go to the tip every 2 weeks to throw 5/6 bags of their wastes coz it doesn't fit to our bin after a week.
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2nd September 2016 #21
They alternate it here. Thursdays is recycling one week, black bags the next.
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2nd September 2016 #22
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When we lived in Davao City rubbish was collected every day.
Here in Marikina we have collections on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
Unlike in Davao, the rubbish must be sorted into biodegradable and non-biodegradable. They're very strict on it too.
What is classed as non-household waste needs to handled by the local office who collect it upon a phone call.
Stuff like wood, metal, solvents, concrete, hollow blocks and the like
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2nd September 2016 #23
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2nd September 2016 #24
Tins and plastic bottles get collected and go down the junk shop for cash once every 2/3 months,Bottles get smashed up and mixed with concrete as required..
The rest is incinerated in a good ole fashioned bonfire once a week. Job done.
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2nd September 2016 #25
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2nd September 2016 #26
Have very neat number stickers on my bins and when I applied them on the three bins I used a spirit level to mark the bins so that every sticker was perfectly level and when the bins are lined up they look cool, also when we first moved here I bought two 3x2 paving slabs and painted them black setting them on some nice gravel perfectly level of coarse for the bins to sit on and they fit very neatly, ref the ladder Steve I run up it
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3rd September 2016 #29
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Now now boys.
I think my bin would take about 6 weeks to fill... and the bin man would laugh at my paltry contributions to the re-cycling boxes, even if put out fortnightly.
Some of my neighbours down the road make up for it by putting out about 500 Fosters cans, from what I saw the other day.
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