Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,897
If you want shot of them I would try Ebay or Gumshoe.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Email sent today to DDC:-
I'm sorry, but I can't accommodate these new bins that have been delivered today. I don't want them in my small front garden and I can't get them through the house to store at the back.
What alternatives are there?
It is obvious that others have rejected these bins as the larger one was delivered pre-loaded with rubbish!!
Comments please.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
difficult to know what can be done with your rubbish.
i understand that the drop redoubt is popular with some.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,214
Howard! Oi! Don't give them ideas.
You should see narrow Balfour Road at the moment, it looks like there has been a Dalek invasion. It looks flipping ridiculous, the front of the houses are barely big enough to accommodate one bin on either side of the bay windows so the whole road just looks like a row of plastic dominoes. That's it now...forever.
I'm just waiting for the late night takeaways to get dumped in these bins, then we will get it in the neck for planting rubbish in the wrong bin.
These one-size-fits all bins make no accommodation for single people who probably won't fill up an eighth of the space yet still have to put up with Kubrick's Monolith dominating their yard. I suppose smaller bins couldn't be issued due to the universal size tipping machinery on the lorries. Still....
I've got no problem with recycling, but this is ridiculous. I wonder if it'll have any effect whatsoever on the environment? I hope it's not a smokescreen for job cuts.
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do...
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
I've been contacted by many people about these monsters and have had some measure of success, with them being taken away and alternatives being provided.
The photos above provide a graphic view of the inappropriateness of them in certain locations. You certainly couldn't get an electric disabled persons scooter, or a child's push chair along there. Quite a safety hazard I would have thought.
Roger
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
I did tell you!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
john,you did.
but still havent got mine yet so cant comment on them.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
Jan -
regarding the 2 track reel to reel tapes of 1960s pop music, I don't want anything for them - what would Age Concern do? Throw them out? I wonder?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,897
Kath, we would look up their value and sell them gradually reducing the price until they went. We only bin broken bric-a-brac items, dirty and torn clothes etc go in the ragbag.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Isn't multiple occupancy wonderful?
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
that is downright daft, that looks like the rat run in the london road.
what chance have baby buggies and mobility scooters got for survival?
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
Is anybody happy with them? not got ours yet and apart from the taking of all plastic other than the limited type at present I cannot see any advantage whatsoever for me.
Audere est facere.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Yes we are ,and lots of the public are too.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
I'd like them Vic, if I had room for them.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
cant comment at the moment because i havent got mine yet either.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
from what i have seen around they are an eyesore, far too many in my opinion.
having said that i would like one and have sufficient space at the front.
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
- Posts: 622
... wait until you see the brand new dust cart that has to collect all those bins ... It's so big I'm not sure it will actually be able to get along many of the streets featured in the photographs here! Me thinks we haven't heard the last of this.....
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
This morning it was tricky getting a VW Polo along Balfour Rd. A dustcart wouldn't have stood a chance.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
- Posts: 622
Interesting to see the bin men at work this morning. They didn't actually wheel the wheelie bins to the dustcart, they just lifted up the lid and took the bags out. Am I missing something here.......
Guest 723- Registered: 12 Sep 2011
- Posts: 40
Does anyone know if I can put tea bags in the the food waste bin? I guess it should be OK as they are biodegradeable.
