Green bins with pink and green packages were being delivered to a lot of our neighbours. I was interested to find what was in them but didn’t hear a knock and next time I looked the van was gone.
Maybe I’ll never know now.
Green bins with pink and green packages were being delivered to a lot of our neighbours. I was interested to find what was in them but didn’t hear a knock and next time I looked the van was gone.
Maybe I’ll never know now.
I think they are dropping off the refuse bags and food caddy for those who won’t be able to use a wheelie bin. I have seen them around town and they have been mainly outside flats and terraced houses in town that don’t have access from the back garden to the front. I can’t wait for mine…not
Indeed, but ‘communal’ flats will have shared arrangements, but those won’t be implemented until later in the year.
They’re just dropping off your fan mail, backstreeter.
I was chatting to the bloke who dropped off our 2 huge wheelie bins last week and basically he said there had been loads of official cock-ups. People with terraced houses fronting the street given wheelie bins that have to stand on the pavement! People in flats, ditto.
As I understand it the Vale have done a fairly extensive survey and there are avbout 1300 properties that are not getting the bins – a large proportion of which are in and and around central Abingdon.
They also have quite a long list of elderly & disabled people who have requested help with their bins.
If anyone has had bins delivered and thinks they should be exempted they should call the Vale asap.
If any of ‘the blokes’ who are delivering bins think some of the properties they are delivering to are wrong it might be helpful if they told the Vale too!
The survey might have been “fairly extensive”, but certainly not exhaustive (and it’s not as if the Vale hasn’t had enough time to do that, is it?). That’s the view from the street, anyway.
Why would those delivering the bins tell the Vale? They’re not employed by them, are they? The scheme has been contracted out!
I’ve asked to be exempt twice (the first time several months ago) and had no feedback after being told that someone would be sent round to assess my situation. On the second occasion (yesterday) I was told that The Vale was dealing with a ‘substantial backlog’ of similar requests. These bins are huge and totally out-of-proportion for one/two person households. The whole process seems to have been handled by The Vale on the basis that one size fits all … these people wouldn’t survive if they had to succeed in a commercial environment.
At the moment, every house in my street looks as though it’s a fast food restaurant.
newcomer; I couldn’t agree more. The fact that any other street in any other town where these monstrous bins have been implemented, looks terrible is neither here-nor-there. They are a monstrosity. The streets are going to look awful. That should bring in the tourists. So much for our preety little town. Pretty awful looking now, if you ask me – which no one is of course. I can’t believe this is what we all wanted. Oh, hold on…we weren’t asked, were we!?
Out of interest, how does the fact that we are all now going to be producing far far less ‘land fill’ sit with us all having to ‘feed’ any new oxfordshre incinerators? You know, if we don’t fill those incinerators we, the tax payer has to compensate the incinerator operator.
Do the vale and OCC talk to each other?
I get fed up with people moaning about everything – they are just bins – I think the staff at the council have done a good job trying to survey and provide a suitable service for all 58,000+ households in the Vale – and they have no staff to do it with! They are just doing what the councillors you all elected want them to do – and then you slate them for trying to make it work for everyone! If you didn’t generate waste, then there wouldn’t be a problem – I might not agree with the criteria for bins or not, but I voted for someone to make these decision on my behalf and I guess I have to accept them til the next election! After all they are just bins – there is more to life than moaning about what they look like – some people’s choice in house colour or planting are crap, but I don’t go round maoning about that!!
Ah! ylacey, The Vale have ‘no staff’ to ‘do’ this job with … that explains everything … they left it to the office cat and we’ve been well and truly ‘done’.
newcomer, i get the feeling that u would complain about winning the lottery – might be time to take up a new hobby…