Recycling. That's one of the buzzwords these days. Everything must be recycled to reduce the 'carbon footprint'. Fair enough. Naturally, politicians fall over themselves to show how they can 'do their bit'. Also fair enough. But when it filters down to local authorities actually trying to implement recycling then the whole thing falls apart.
Take Midlothian Council for example (please, somebody) The good citizens of Dalkeith have been given one black wheelie bin for 'normal' rubbish (Council manifestos and the like), a brown wheelie bin for garden refuse such as hedge cuttings (but for God's sake don't put these in a black bag first), a wee blue box for paper and a wee red box for glass.
So we make the effort - as we feel we should - of sorting out our rubbish, seperating the papers and bottles and putting them in their proper boxes. Only for our esteemed Cooncil binmen to leave the bottles and jars on the premise that 'they were dirty'. Of course they're dirty, they're rubbish that's being thrown out. Apparently the people who run Midlothian want us to wash our rubbish before putting it out. It's bad enough that we have to cart our wheelie bins and boxes about half a mile on to the street ('cos they won't come to collect) but now we're expected to wash the bloody stuff too.
Well, here's my message to the people in the big pink hoose in Dalkeith. Until you come even close to resembling having the ability to be able to organise a p**s up in a brewery, all my rubbish is going into one big, black bag.
Sort that lot out...
Take Midlothian Council for example (please, somebody) The good citizens of Dalkeith have been given one black wheelie bin for 'normal' rubbish (Council manifestos and the like), a brown wheelie bin for garden refuse such as hedge cuttings (but for God's sake don't put these in a black bag first), a wee blue box for paper and a wee red box for glass.
So we make the effort - as we feel we should - of sorting out our rubbish, seperating the papers and bottles and putting them in their proper boxes. Only for our esteemed Cooncil binmen to leave the bottles and jars on the premise that 'they were dirty'. Of course they're dirty, they're rubbish that's being thrown out. Apparently the people who run Midlothian want us to wash our rubbish before putting it out. It's bad enough that we have to cart our wheelie bins and boxes about half a mile on to the street ('cos they won't come to collect) but now we're expected to wash the bloody stuff too.
Well, here's my message to the people in the big pink hoose in Dalkeith. Until you come even close to resembling having the ability to be able to organise a p**s up in a brewery, all my rubbish is going into one big, black bag.
Sort that lot out...
1 comment:
So funny but also so true....just be thankful you dont live here in Morecambe though cos now we also have to recycle plastic bottles and tins and tinfoil too.......and yes its a right royal pain in the butt having to spend an extra 20 mins at the sink washing out numerous tins pie cases and the odd shampoo bottle that you cant get the flaming lid off hence youre there an extra hour just making sure theres no more bubbles coming out of the bottle hahaha.oh such is life
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