Webforum: Happy New Year to the bin men!

Dec 30 2009 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WHAT’S in your bin?

I imagine it’s full of turkey bits and mangled wrapping paper.

And that seems to be the problem.

While us hard-working chaps and chapesses can put our feet up over the festive season, the good men and women of Kirklees Council can’t – as they seem to provide all our services.

It appears the refuse refusal has moved one person to righteous indignation – and to start posting on the www.examiner.co.uk forums.

Adrienne wrote: “I would be interested to know if anyone else is frustrated by the holiday period refuse collection.

“Our grey bin was last collected on December 14 and will be collected next on January 4 – just like last year. This means three weeks with a bin full of stinking rubbish at a time of year when it is logical that everyone will have more refuse than usual. “When I phoned the council no-one could give me an answer as to why this is happening again and I was told that I couldn’t actually speak to the person responsible for making this decision, only email him/her.

“I am so tempted to go and dump all my Christmas refuse on the steps of the council building because their policy of firstly changing to a two-week grey bin collection does not make me recycle more.

“I recycle no more or less than I did when it was every week and trying to ‘nanny’ me into being extra careful over Christmas just makes me furious!

“It is a health hazard and it’s about time people started taking more affirmative action over council policies such as these.”

Shame on Phil3 for his lazy, stereotyping of our council: “The reason they will not put you through to talk to the person responsible is probably due to the fact that should you talk some sense to them it could be classed as harassment which will allow them to take time off work for stress.

“Nobody now working for Kirklees can be held responsible for anything any more.”

Tigger was having none of it and called for a bit of perspective: “Perhaps I’m just unreasonably chilled (and not just by the snow), but to me there are far more important things in life to be concerned about ...”

Whereas poster Otis was being a cheeky scamp as usual: “Our bin men do a pretty good job around here. No I’m not going to tell you where, you’ll all want to move in.”