Odd rule/regulation
- 18 March 2014 16:15262474now and again i have to ring waste at ddc if my rubbish/recycling is missed and they are always polite and helpful and the next working day it is gone.
last friday the recycling and slops bucket were missed so first thing on monday morning i rang the council and was told it would be sorted the same day or latest by tuesday(today). i explained that the two houses either side of me and the one opposite had also been missed.
about an hour ago i heard the clanking of bottles from outside so went to the window, saw that my boxes were all empty and a caged vehicle driving off leaving all the other houses that had highly visible recycling boxes at the front. i have just rang the department and was told that each house had to report their own non collection!! - 18 March 2014 16:24262475Makes sense if you think about it, they might have left their recycling bin out for a courier to leave a parcel in it
- Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
18 March 2014 16:47262476They probably didnt have a job number for the other two,and i,m not joking. - 18 March 2014 17:28262477i remember that one ray, i suspect andy is right but common sense should have meant that the staff member would ring in and say that there was a few others clearly full of bottles and cardboard and the job sheet amended.
- 19 March 2014 07:07262485How do you translate 'common sense' into council-speak? At the very least, using common sense would have to be documented and a risk assessment done.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,948
19 March 2014 11:49262506Howard said, quote 'about an hour ago i heard the clanking of bottles from outside so went to the window, saw that my boxes were all empty and a caged vehicle driving off leaving all the other houses that had highly visible recycling boxes at the front. i have just rang the department and was told that each house had to report their own non collection!!' ]
A caged vehicle Howard? Good job you stayed indoors!
Do nothing and nothing happens. - 19 March 2014 20:22262548no point in sending in a vehicle to sort out the paper recycling 2 doors from me now, a windy day has spread it around the local streets.
bureaucracy rules. - Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
19 March 2014 20:35262551I remember just a few years back,they came to collect the remains of an old bathroom suite which had been flytipped in the lanes in Hougham.Just a short distance away was a heap of car tyres which had also been flytipped.They said that they couldnt take the tyres until they was instructed to do so.