As there was rather a lot of cardboard, I hoped that the poor, overworked binmen - sorry, refuse collectors - would not find it too traumatic to collect it this week.
Round one was the emptying of the green bin. Done.
Round two - the emptying of the green box (wine bottles and, er, wine bottles) plus the blue bag. I noticed from the window that the blue bag had been placed on top of the empty box but still retained a suspiciously firm outline, so I hopped outside to investigate. A large, flattened cardboard box was still in there, plus two toilet roll centres, but I'm prepared to overlook those, so I took the bag over to one of the men who was busy sorting and emptying the neighbour's green box.
"Excuse me," I said politely, "you have left this in my bag," holding out the flattened box for his close inspection.
"We don't take cardboard," he said, without looking at me. (Oh shucks, I must have turned into the invisible woman again!)
"Well, it says on this bag that you do," I said, gearing up for battle.
8 comments:
The customer is always right!
There seems to be some unwritten rule that they never quite manage to take everything you leave out. We put out some old crockery recently. I wasn't quite such in which bin it should go, so used the non-recyclable. There have been bits of old plates rattling around in the bottom of it for weeks.
But you may have to do a bit of fighting first, CW. ;)
SP, they seem to take a pride in leaving something every time!
Good for the compost heap...if you had one! Flighty xx
Perhaps the leek munching Taffy binmen are racist and realise that you are English - albeit from Liverpool. But if you offer them a cup of tea and a slice of Welsh rarebit, I'm sure they'd take anything away for you - including NASA control!
Possibly, YP but I am NOT from Liverpool. I just happen to have lived there for some years. :)
Flighty, we would have to have a garden big enough to contain a compost heap! :)
When in doubt I put things in a black bag into the general black bin.
All this sorting is under comulsion from Our Masters In Brussels (OMIB) so as an Englishman I tend not to take a lot of notice.
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