Bloody councils!

[ian]

What a complete load of arseholes both Birmingham city council and Worcester city council turn out to be, it seems that we, along with who knows how many other people have been BANNED from using our local council tip, and why? Because it is over the county boundary and into Worcestershire, we live about 1 mile from this said council tip that we are not allowed to use because it is for the people of Worcestershire, the closest main group of people that can use it are in Bromsgrove some 3 miles away, so now we are expected to travel about 5 miles away to use the closest tip that comes under Birmingham city council, hooray for bloody red tape.

So, as Pagans trying our best to recycle and save this precious earth of ours we now have to drive 4 miles extra to use that tip in order to recyle our bits of recycleable materials, yes the council do collect paper (WOW!) and yes there are recycling bins at the local supermarkets but they again only do paper, bottles, clothes and shoes, now the most recycleable material that we get is plastic but do any of them have a 'plastics' bin? No. So to be able to do our bit we have to put a bigger footstep onto the earth with the use of car emissions to go the extra distance.

And since the decission was made to stop Birmingham tenants from using the tip the amount of rubbish that has been 'fly tipped' has gone up through the roof, it is all over the place. I wrote to Worcestershire council explaining the facts to them and the response that i received was the usual tripe about paying council taxes to different councils, i dont give a toss who i pay my council tax to, the fact that i pay it should be enough, one of the reasons given in the reply was that nearly 50% of the rubbish collected at the tip was from Birmingham people, how the hell they know this i will never know but, you can just see it in a few years time, 'local council tip closed, with the loss of ? jobs' because there was a lack of people using it, where do those people take their rubbish to then?

Going to go take a lay down now and get down off my soap box, but i am still bloody annoyed at stupid bureaucracy and red tape, and they expect me to go and vote for these people!!!!

[Mel]

**Mel climbs on to her proverbial soap box.... takes a deep breath and.......**


City Councils!!! Are a waste of time and space. And most couldn't organise a p*** up in brewery!!

I live in Worcester, we have those wheelie bins, 1 black one for ordinary household rubbish, and 1 green one for apparently recyclable stuff. They are then emptied on alternate weeks, (on a Friday by me) the black one one week, the green one the next and so on.

Great, you may think.......... Worcester city council doing there bit for the environment... I know I did ~ what a bloody fool I was.

In my naivety, I chucked everything into the green bin that had the well known 'recycle' symbol on it. After all, that was what the green bin is for isn't it........... recycling.

But OH NO........ not according to Worcester city council.

Came home form work one Friday to find the green bin hadn't been emptied and a postcard type thingy pushed through my letter box from our bin men. It told me it hadn't been emptied because there was contents in the bin NOT for recycling and the reverse of the card was a huge long list of recyclable material I couldn't put in my green bin ~ this included..

ALL glass ~ apart from clear glass.

Plastic tubs~ like yogurt pots, margarine/butter tubs etc

some types of paper and card board

cans ~ (the type tin beans, toms, cat food etc come in)

the list went on and on.

Now personally, I think this is absolutely ridiculous. Its not as if I was throwing everything in there. If it had the recycle symbol on it I assumed it could be recycled.......... obviously not. Not in bloody Worcester anyway!!

[moonsmith]

Hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm Perhaps we should link this thread to the one on Voting!

If your Local Councilor felt that their seat on the gravy train was threatened they might do something!

Pat

[gwenifer]

Councils talk to each other? Never!!! Mind you if you were moving from one council across a border to another they are quick enough to stop your housing benefit! And that was before I'd started a claim with the new council!! AND if you want bulky items moved here it costs £11.50 PER ITEM!!!

[merrybel]

How do the tip workers know you are not from their area? Do they have license numbers on record? We regularly use the Birmingham tip by Barry's house because it is virtually walking distance, yet he is supposed to use the Solihull one which is miles away. We have never been asked where we are from or challenged. We would probably lie if we were! And if they turned us away, we could just load it all into my car and take it back coz I'm a Birmingham resident. It's a silly system. As Drach says, the councils should share responsibilty for all the tips.

[eleanor]

Gwenifer - I assume you don't come under B'ham then? We've had lots of things taken and it's never cost us anything.

Jan x

[ian]

How do the tip workers know you are not from their area? Do they have license numbers on record?

No they have come up with a far more cunning way off doing this, they sent everyone who was entitled to use it a badge for their car windscreen when they sent out the council tax bills for the year.

As Drach says, the councils should share responsibilty for all the tips.

Thats far too simple.

[gwenifer]

No I'm in Sandwell now, I phoned them and explained I am disabled and they said...........tough, still £11.50 per item!!

[kharma]

Sandwell's tip have been postcode checking on entry for a while now, you can take trailer and vans in with an appointment otherwise you'll be turned away.

JO