South Oxfordshire's waste collection service

[barry2017]

Is utter madness.
They've given everyone on my dad's road three new bins, one for recycling, one for landfill and one for food waste.
Less than a week after this new system has started, and I'm taking Lucky for a walk.
All of the food waste bins have rat shaped holes nibbled in the top. :shock:
Madness.

 

[legrandefromage]

we've got the wheely bins you've seen, what you got then?

 

[barry2017]

My dad has three wheelie bins, a big one for recycling, a smaller one for landfill, and a third wastepaper basket sized one for food. The little ones are the only ones that have been holed, they're made of much thinner plastic.

I have a little bin on my mooring and waste points along the cut, because I hardly produce any waste at all; I buy food loose in jars I reuse. The air is much cleaner from my moral high ground.

 

[Kestonian]

Out here - we share a bin. They're not that big on recycling, but are getting better especially in public places.

Bins are collected daily from outside the apartment, there must be one wheely bin shared between 3 or 4 flats and it's collected daily at least. I guess a lot of this is to do with the heat.

But the best bit was when I got my "services" bill - for the privilege of having a bin 15 feet from my front door that gets emptied at least once a day, I pay £1.50 a month.

I guess that's the benefit of everyone living on top of each other

 

[mtbfix]

The new bins are great IMO. I cannot speak for rat ingress but we got notices about the change of service over a month ago and the bins arrived a few weeks back. Badgers and foxes in our street cannot break into the food bins and much less is going to landfill. This strikes me as a good thing.

 

[hamster]

Out here - we share a bin. They're not that big on recycling, but are getting better especially in public places.

Bins are collected daily from outside the apartment, there must be one wheely bin shared between 3 or 4 flats and it's collected daily at least. I guess a lot of this is to do with the heat.

But the best bit was when I got my "services" bill - for the privilege of having a bin 15 feet from my front door that gets emptied at least once a day, I pay £1.50 a month.

I guess that's the benefit of everyone living on top of each other

Just watch it in the bin bays. They hoiked a 13 foot python out from our one when I lived in SGP in 2001. :shock:

 

[barry2017]

The new bins are great IMO. I cannot speak for rat ingress but we got notices about the change of service over a month ago and the bins arrived a few weeks back. Badgers and foxes in our street cannot break into the food bins and much less is going to landfill. This strikes me as a good thing.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you about landfill. Any regular that reads what I put up here realises what a self righteous eco-tw@ I can be when it comes to talking about the environment.
What amazes me is how the new company could be stupid enough to choose a food waste bin that a rat can get through in less than a fortnight. I've never seen a full-sized wheelie bin with bite marks like that before, so I assume they can't manage it on the bigger bins.
It's the same as the fact they don't have little collection vans anymore, so they can't collect rubbish from little lanes and they've told my dad's binman who has been working for us for years he doesn't have a job anymore. Just a stunning lack of foresight.

 

[South Bound]

lol, just when I was thinking it was a great idea and would stop all the recycling in open bins blowing into my garden, now my bins are going to get chewed as well!

Generally, people are crap at recycling and I think this is a long overdue step.

 

[Dr.Robotnik]

Round my way rats are the least of your worries. My bin has died from each of the below...

-Fire

-Explosions

-Stolen

-Thrown into the road and run over, etc. The guy who did it was massive and mental, the police arrived, had a chat with him and then shooed him off because he was at least a foot taller than them (though there were 4 cops) and they couldn't handle him. Useless.

Ah the joy of a cr@p neighbourhood.

 

[JohnH]

When I lived in Redcar, the council implemented its brand new recycling strategy; tell residents to separate their empty plastic bottles from other waste and put them into the supplied "container" -- a large, clear polythene bag.

But our local council hadn't foreseen what would happen when you put something out onto the pavement on a windy day that had a large surface area and very little weight. I recall driving along the road and having to slalom around these bags just to get to Tesco... :roll: