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[Floydoid]

More on the council bin snoops... surely there are more important matters to worry about (and to spend our council tax on).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082225/March-dustbin-Stasi-Half-councils-use-anti-terror-laws-watch-people-putting-rubbish-wrong-day.html

[roseway]

I've separated this from its original thread whose originator changed his mind.

[Floydoid]

Oakily doakily

[fudgem]

Being of an age to remember when the dustbinmen came down your path, picked your bin up and emptied, then returned it, I find it difficult to believe all the shenanigans nowadays.  I agree with recycling, and do it faithfully, then someone working for the council whispers in my husbands ear that it all goes to landfill anyway.  I sort my bottles according to colour, then when the wagon comes to empty the receptacles, it tips them all in together.

My grand daughter bought a new house on a large development, where only communal bins are provided, and no recycling facilities at all

Maybe it's time we started spying on the council for a change

[UncleUB]

I like yourself Anne do all the usual recycling stuff,but I'm getting very disillusioned about it all.I don't think councils do enough to encourage you to recycle,but when you put the wrong stuff in your bins they want to throw you in the Tower of London.Like you point out what is the point of having different coloured glass bins when they all go on the same pile when collected.
A couple of weeks ago Sue noticed that the wrapping on packs of fruit was recyclable.We didn't know what to do with it so I sent an email to the recycle now website.The reply wthat came back was they didn't have a clue and sent me a link about recycling carrier bags.

[Floydoid]

Being of an age to remember when the dustbinmen came down your path, picked your bin up and emptied, then returned it,

Yes and in those days the bins were metal, full of ashes from the coal fire, and the binmen hauled them up on their shoulders to tip them into the cart... none of these namby-pamby wheelie bins.

[UncleUB]

Being of an age to remember when the dustbinmen came down your path, picked your bin up and emptied, then returned it,

Yes and in those days the bins were metal, full of ashes from the coal fire, and the binmen hauled them up on their shoulders to tip them into the cart... none of these namby-pamby wheelie bins.

You'll be wanting the tin bath back next Floydy. 

[fudgem]

It was quite nice in front of the fire

Who am I kidding?  One side burning and the other freezing, give me a centrally heated bathroom any day

[UncleUB]

It was quite nice in front of the fire

Who am I kidding?  One side burning and the other freezing, give me a centrally heated bathroom any day

If you were the first one in it was.  After that things got a little murky.

[Floydoid]

Ah those were the days - sitting in the tin bath in front of the kitchen coal fire on friday nights.

[kitz]

* kitz shivers and goes to put the central heating on

[UncleUB]

Our house it was my younger sister first,then me,then my mum and dad last,by that time the water was like pea soup and then the poor bugger had to empty it while we sat round the fire being forced enjoying our Ovaltine. 

[roseway]

You were overprivileged then Phil. In our family I was last (Dad was first).

[mr_chris]

lol... I thought it was traditionally oldest -> youngest .. hence the saying "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!"

[oldfogy]

In our household it used to be the cleanest first.