Last night while i met up with a few friends at my local to watch that shower of sh*t that is our national team, i got approached by somebody who knows my interests, out of the blue said "I'm sick and tired of that f*cking council" now being a Tory activist, i always welcome people having a go at the Labour controlled group.
So i asked him what was up? and he said "Why are my bins only emptied twice a month?" i replied "that the council have to hit government targets regarding recycling"
He then said "I've worked all my life, paid my taxes, have children, who have grown up and they now have kids, and they stay at my house several times a week, so i have quite a bit of waste, from nappies to waste food, and my bin gets quite full quite quickly".
I don't mind recycling, i do all i can! i separate my glass bottles from plastic and put my newspapers in a separate bin but i still don't have any room as they go through nappies like mad, and if the bin lid is slightly up then the binmen won't collect"
It dawned on me that this man was right, it's an appalling system.
Yes recycling is important, but so are people, and their Families why should this man suffer?
I feel sometimes the environment is used as a smoke screen, for extra taxes just look at any response when you raise the question, they just say you are anti green, whether it's charging you for Carrier bags or congestion charge it's all extra money, which quite frankly could be spent else where.
The problem we have is all food in supermarkets are heavily packed with needless packaging, the government should instead of hitting families should be encouraging manufactures to come up with other ways of packing food, take a normal box of cereal? it has a bag inside the box why does it have a box? why can't they toughen the internal bag and put the printing on the bag other food items come in bags so why can't cereal?
All fresh meat come in trays from the supermarket, why can't it just be vacuumed packed? it's just simple ideas which the government should push.
This way when this gentleman like many others do their shopping for their family, they can buy their goods and when they throw things away after they have very little to put in the bin.
If all parties are serious about the environment? for benefit of the planet, and not their pockets. Then they must take this serious? as there are many people who have been let down, and it's it's people like this gentleman we really should be looking after, not just our own interests!
So i asked him what was up? and he said "Why are my bins only emptied twice a month?" i replied "that the council have to hit government targets regarding recycling"
He then said "I've worked all my life, paid my taxes, have children, who have grown up and they now have kids, and they stay at my house several times a week, so i have quite a bit of waste, from nappies to waste food, and my bin gets quite full quite quickly".
I don't mind recycling, i do all i can! i separate my glass bottles from plastic and put my newspapers in a separate bin but i still don't have any room as they go through nappies like mad, and if the bin lid is slightly up then the binmen won't collect"
It dawned on me that this man was right, it's an appalling system.
Yes recycling is important, but so are people, and their Families why should this man suffer?
I feel sometimes the environment is used as a smoke screen, for extra taxes just look at any response when you raise the question, they just say you are anti green, whether it's charging you for Carrier bags or congestion charge it's all extra money, which quite frankly could be spent else where.
The problem we have is all food in supermarkets are heavily packed with needless packaging, the government should instead of hitting families should be encouraging manufactures to come up with other ways of packing food, take a normal box of cereal? it has a bag inside the box why does it have a box? why can't they toughen the internal bag and put the printing on the bag other food items come in bags so why can't cereal?
All fresh meat come in trays from the supermarket, why can't it just be vacuumed packed? it's just simple ideas which the government should push.
This way when this gentleman like many others do their shopping for their family, they can buy their goods and when they throw things away after they have very little to put in the bin.
If all parties are serious about the environment? for benefit of the planet, and not their pockets. Then they must take this serious? as there are many people who have been let down, and it's it's people like this gentleman we really should be looking after, not just our own interests!
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The fortnightly bin collection is a fookwit idea thought up by fookwits, hoping we're all fookwits and won't mind.
But how wrong they are.
That is why the British public and Tameside residents are saying "Enough is enough" to Labour's vacuous, life-sucking, tax-hiking, fookwitting, dictatorially-driven governance of our proud country.
There will be riots on the streets of Britain before this shower of shite leave office.
Not very "vote blue, go green" is it?
Dear anon
Yes we do care about the enviroment,as we all should do so what does this gent do?
Drive to the tip with his waste causing a needless journey?
or should he just fly tip?
The only reasons why this was brought in was for the saving of money and treating the general public as complete mugs.
Oh and think of the areas where the "trial" was brought in by the Labour controlled council
Hyde Werneth
Ashton Hurst
Stalybridge South
All Tory area's yes they do have it in Longdendale but guess what it's in the part where we get most of our support.
The council to date have not released any findings of this "trial" and said it was going to be brought in to Kieren Quinn's area Droylsden but was droped i wonder why that is?
It's not a vote winner is it?
They must think we're mugs
Mr Anonymous, whose giving a f**k about green issues now the economy is up the sh1tter?
You may have time for bullshit outsetting, sun-dried lentils, discussing the latest sh!te in the Guardian, and drinking ginseng and ostrich shit tea, but some of us are struggling to keep a roof over our heads and want VALUE FOR MONEY for the Council Tax we pay.
Which Labour councillor is in charge of refuse collection in Tameside? I suggest placing that person in a wheelie bin and let's see how long it takes the council to collect said refuse.
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