simont | (no subject)

Then again, perhaps I won't buy a dehumidifier, since (a) I feel much better this morning than I did yesterday and (b) a quick websearch suggests that a decently powerful dehumidifier is big, bulky and pretty expensive. I'll save that option for a last resort, I think...

I noticed this week that one of my neighbours has found a creative solution to the dustbin men's policy of not taking more than one wheely-bin-ful of rubbish each week. I've always solved this problem by driving to the tip with any excess, but this has struck me as an unsatisfactory solution since it relies on me having a car, which is fine for me but wouldn't work for others. But one of the other residents of this end of my street has come up with a much more elegant hack: they have two wheely bins, both with the same house number painted on. Since everybody leaves the bins out on the pavement and it isn't obvious which one goes with which house, the binmen apparently empty both and never realise they're from the same house! How cunning is that?

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Is there a rule of only one bin per household? I thought it was just that they'd only take stuff if it was in a wheelybin and didn't mind if you had more than one.

Really? If so I confess I can't see the point of such a rule; I'd assumed the point was so that they could guarantee that by the time they got to the end of their round they'd still have room in the lorry.

It's a health and safety thing: if stuff isn't in a wheelybin they'd have to lift it into the van, which isn't designed for it. They use a different sort of van on the rounds where they pick up bin bags (there are some places where people haven't room for a wheelybin). I've always wondered why they can't empty the bin, lift the rest into the now-empty bin and then empty it again. But you might be right, I just don't know of a rule which says only one bin per household.

I'd go poke around the council's webpages and check but I seem to be a complete lack of arsedness today.