Tis a Saturday and I feel suitably moved to award my prestigious, and internationally renowned, "Prats of The Week" Award.This time it goes to Flintshire County Council.
For why?
Well, my old muckers, it seems that they have a bit of an issue wrt the disposal of rotting apples.
John Mason, who had a pile of "windfalls" from his apple trees, wanted to dispose of his apples and put them into his garden waste wheelie bin for the council (Flintshire County Council) to take away.
Alas he was working under the assumption that Flintshire County Council was not run by numpties.
How wrong he was!
Officials from the council ruled that just because something is waste and comes from the garden, it doesn't necessarily qualify as garden waste.
Council workers refused to empty the bin, and stuck a yellow label on it which warned that the bin had been 'contaminated' with food waste.
The council labours under the view that spoiled fruit could have come from a kitchen and been in contact with uncooked meat, thus picking up dangerous bacteria.
OK I am confused here...so farking what?
Are people going to eat it or wallow in it?
The waste is all dumped in the same landfill in India, along with all the other crap our councils send over there, surely?
Bottom line, the recycling rules imposed by councils are utter bollocks.
Ignore them, and put all your crap in one bin.
Flintshire County Council, well deserving Prats of The Week.
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Giving power to binmen was always going to be a huge mistake.....Only the paperhats that run the councils couldn't see it.....Or perhaps they could!!
ReplyDeleteAlas, the binmen are just the jobsworths at nanny's behest. The real power behind all this intrusion into our lives as to what we can even put in our own bins is the EU, courtesy of its landfill directives which will result in fines to its satellite state of Britain for every ton over the amount prescribed by the communists in Brussels put into the ground. Hence the councils running around like headless chickens to please Frau Nanny. Just another great reason to be in the EU.
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ReplyDelete"The council labours under the view that spoiled fruit could have come from a kitchen and been in contact with uncooked meat, thus picking up dangerous bacteria."
Which species of animal is notorious for harbouring one of the more serious human pathogens, salmonella? The answer, children, BIRDS. And where do birds shit? Everywhere and over everything. Worse still, because seagulls feed in sewage tanks their shit is full of just about everything in the book.
So if the council are so worried that some apples might contaminate whatever pristine destination earmarked for Flintshire's grass cuttings, are they going to take steps to prevent a particularly well (sewage) fed gull doing a luxuriously satisfying dump all over it?
I was under the impression that council officials were supposed to be well-educated - at least on paper. This lot don't seem to have any idea how the real world works.
NB: Flintshire does have an estuary coast.
NNB: There are lots of little sewage works all along said coast.
"The council labours under the view that spoiled fruit could have come from a kitchen and been in contact with uncooked meat, thus picking up dangerous bacteria."
ReplyDelete"The council labours under the view that good ideas could have come from a council jobsworth and been in contact with uncooked thought-processes, thus picking up dangerous delusions."
Disgusted:''The answer, children, BIRDS. And where do birds shit? Everywhere and over everything.''
ReplyDeleteCorrect D of TW. My chickens shit all over their coop and this is harvested and transferred to the composter along with sundry other garden/kitchen detritus. I'm sure that the local council could dream that have a very good case against me for producing life-threatening bacterial warfare agents in my back garden.
Chickenshit ... tomorrow's WMD's today. ;o)
I couldn't believe this, when I read it. Surely, apples are organic material, and as such, ideal for the garden waste bin, which I assume goes for composting: at least it does in Rugby. For the council to suggest that the fruit came from a kitchen, and 'may' have been in contact with contact with raw meat is, circumstantial evidence, relying on supposition, not fact, to say the least, and such evidence is not admissable in a court of law. As to the main source of sewage, I fully agree with the comments made by Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells and skydog. Flintshire county council are a worthy recipient of the 'Prats of the Week' award!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me like the case of the underdeveloped brain receiving and giving wrong information. Let me explain. Binman looks in bin. Sees something he does not normally see - in this case a mini heap of rotting apples. His underdeveloped brain says (this is Wales isn't it) awwww boyo dai 'as emtyed waste bin 'ere............job done
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