Web Forum: Bottled up

Sep 3 2009 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

AN attempt to go green ended up with one of our forum users turning red ... with anger!

brownie21: “I live in Newsome. Both myself and my wife work full time. I know this isn’t an excuse, but I can never time the bottle collection correctly. However, this last week I was off work taking some holiday.

“On Wednesday morning I heard the sound of the vehicle outside collecting the bottle bins. I hastily rushed outside with my overflowing bucket to be met by two guys emptying them. I offered my bottles to them but was completely ignored.

“When I asked one of them why I was being ignored he just shrugged his shoulders and carried on.

“I was determined not to let my bottles build up for another month so put the bucket in my car and followed the vehicle onto the next street.

“I pulled up safely behind them and once again asked one of the guys if I could empty my bottles into the van.

“No problem, mate,’’ he replied. Great, I thought, but as I was approaching the vehicle it drove off at speed leaving me in the middle of the road with my bottles. I gave up at this point and came home.

“I sent an email to Kirklees complaining (in a polite way) about this incident, but they have yet to reply (I am not surprised). I will let you draw your own conclusions about this.

“One thing seems to be missing off their recruitment criteria for waste collectors – must be polite and considerate as I have never ever come across this trait in any of their refuse workers and I really don’t think the council could care less.

“My bottle bin is left on the street now until the next collection and I for one will not bother in future to segregate my glass.

“It will go in the dirty black bin with all the rest of my trash.”

despondent said: “Forget the incident, put them back in the car and deposit them in the bottle banks at the Wellie, that’s what we do. It’s so simple.”

Mowdiwarp: said: “We must get the same crew in Lindley! I personally will not leave what little glass we have out for the local yobs to chuck about, but when KMC do come round we have a Kirklees ‘operative’ wheeling a green bin up the street who takes great delight in emptying the glass into the wheeled bin making as much noise as possible and looking as happy as a bag of sick frogs!”