Aibu to wheel my bin to council and empty it out?

[pumpkinsweetie]

Blue bin wasn't collected yesterday as a member of the public dropped one small piece of paper in it so they wouldn't take it as only plastics, cans etc can be accepted from that bin.

Although angry I was polite when I phoned and asked if I emptied said contaminant would they do a re shedule.

I was basically told tough and to keep it until next collection and apparently keep watch on bin day for litter droppers as it's my responsibility.

So do I camp out front from 6am bin day keeping watch or would I be unreasonable to walk the bin down to the offices under the cover of darkness and dump the recycling they refuse to take?

I don't own a car and I pay £115 in council tax a month!

They can have a percentage of contamination. I don't know what the percentage is or how they work it out, but that's how they make the determination. If they were to take a little bit of the wrong thing from each household, that's a hell of a lot of wrong things and would add up to a rejected load. They have to reject every bin that contains the wrong thing because there has to be a universal rule. If they made exceptions, they'd have to do it for everyone and then you could end up with an awful lot of rejected recycling.

Well for now going to see how refuse black bin day goes. If that isn't taken there will be trouble!
And I'm going to await my extra red bags and blue bin collection in a fortnight like a good girl. For now.

If they start messing me about, even after following all the rules and keeping binocular watch on passer bys next week. There will be hell to pay, in the form of a lovely story for the newspapers, aswell as a nice bit of flytipping that I have no choice as I own no car.

But I will give the council a chance before I commit an offence. For now I have ordered a balaclava just incase

The binmen love these rules because at the end of the day if you give your binmen paper money at Christmas they will take away whatever you put out in any color bin.

More people shit scared of getting the rules wrong means more bribes tips for them.

About 18 yrs ago I had an issue with the paper recycling not being collected (door to property was up a side alley and they kept 'forgetting'). After many weeks of calling the council to arrange a special collection, I'd had enough. I took the recycling box (only paper and card, nothing smelly) round to the council offices, explained who I was and why I was there. Then I tipped the contents onto the floor and left. No comeback, except that there was never a problem again.

Might be worth investing in a gravity lock? Although, from the sounds of your council, you may want something from them in writing guaranteeing it works with their bin lorries.

Best not to do any fly tipping, but if they try and fine you for putting the wrong waste in the recycling bin then you can point out that if the bin is in a public place then some other person can have fly tipped the paper into it. This allows you to bring up reasonable doubt which is what you need to avoid a criminal case being successful against you.

If the council want the waste to be presorted and free of foreign waste then I would like to suggest that they provide you with the means to keep the bin secure away from passers by and then arrange a mutually agreeable time for the collection.

I work in the recycling sector and I can tell you that sorted waste is much more easy to recycle than a random mixture of wastes. Even then some humans are used to sort waste, I have been in some recycling sites where humans are picking the foreign waste (like paper out of cardboard). While machines can sort some classes of materials from each other there are some things which defeat the machines.

Maybe the council should buy or rent a separation machine.

In my town we are issued with a recycling bin in which we can put paper, glass and all types of plastic ( that only recently changed ) cardboard etc. then we have a smaller general bin and not so long ago a food bin. If you want a garden bin you have to apply for one but this is free. Recycling is fortnightly as is the garden bin, general and food bin is weekly. I have no complaints about my local council as far as this is concerned.