Prats of The Week - Veolia

It seems to me that at times, Nanny is completely bonkers.

How else can this sorry tale of stupidity be explained?

Dave Clark, Rob Jefford and Alex Steven have been sacked from the bin collecting jobs in Chatham for helping an elderly man clear bags of rubble from him garden. They were fired for gross misconduct after trying to go above and beyond the call of duty for residents.

They were in fact fired on the same day (7 November) that their employer Veolia published a newsletter containing a note from a resident praising their work.

How did this come to pass?

One resident (clearly with nothing better to do with his/her life) complained after the guys helped clear the rubble. Veolia reviewed footage taken from a dust cart camera, which is fitted on all vehicles, showing the crew, who operated in Chatham, Kent, collecting extra items of waste including bags of rubble.

A spokesman for Veolia told the Mirror they could not comment because the matter is part of an ongoing internal investigation.

Veolia, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Prats of The Week - Brighton Council

Well done Brighton Council, for once again winning my prestigious "Prats of The Week" Award.

The council won it because it banned a rubbish truck emblazoned with the Union Flag from rubbish duty.

For why?

The council, having been proded by the GMB Union, deemed that the truck supported #Brexit.

Aside from the obvious point that the Union Flag has been around a lot longer than #Brexit, there is of course another point that the council has missed.

Chris Wood, Truck UK owner, is quoted by the Telegraph:

"I have never had a complaint before. 

We thought it looked nice, it never even crossed my mind that it could support Brexit. 

Since we have had trucks on the road we have always used the Union Jack as our logo.

I only found out had been taken out of service on Friday. I think it's political correctness gone mad. If the council are not happy with it then I have to respect that, they are my customer.

If it causes this much grief then we will have to change it, but we've used it since 2004 and never had any problems before. No other councils have had a problem with it. It has been on the side of trucks for 12 years."

Brighton Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Bin Brother - Nanny's Bin Tax

Nanny's chums in local councils are forever bleating that they are running out of money. However, instead of cutting back on waste and unnecessary expenditure, they opt for the easy route and bleed the local taxpayers dry usually via increasing council taxes.

These days though, as a result of pressure from central Nanny and from more vocal local residents councils are finding that it is not so easy to raise council taxes.

The solution?

Simples, create another charge for a service that is already covered by council tax.

Step forward Nanny's greedy chums from South Gloucestershire council who want to introduce a £36 per annum charge, which in theory is meant to cover the cost of collecting local residents' green bins.

Call me old fashioned, but this just sounds like a complete rip off. In the event the green bins are so expensive to collect, why not simply abandon them and return to the good old days of putting all your waste in the same bin?

Let's face it, all the waste (green or otherwise) simply ends up in landfills in India anyway.

Anyhoo, Chris Skidmore MP for Kingswood, has launched a petition calling on South Gloucestershire Council to stop this rip off.

Those of you who wish to sign it, and live in the area, can do so via this link Say No To Labour’s Bin Tax.

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Bin Brother - Thank You Brighton and Hove Council

My thanks to our local council for picking up our refuse, two days late, after we emailed them to remind them that our street had been missed by the binmen.

However, what about everyone else's refuse on our street shouldn't that have been collected as well?

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Bin Brother - How To Angle Your Bin

My thanks to a loyal reader who advises me that the good people of Coventry have received 5,000 "helpful" leaflets from Coventry City Council explaining how to pit their wheelie bins out.

According to the Mail the leaflets use images with green ticks and red crosses to describe the correct angle for wheelie bins to be placed before they are collected by binmen. The flyers have been sent out in the Hillfields and Foleshill areas.

It seems that the council is worried that binmen would injure themselves if the bins face the "wrong" direction.

City resident Dave Evans was quoted:

"If this is a health and safety issue why has it only been raised now and, if so, is it not a health and safety issue to residents?"

Quite!

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Bin Brother - Nanny Bans Pumpkin Seeds

My thanks to a loyal reader for pointing me in the direction of some post Halloween Nanny nonsense.

Now that Halloween is but a dim distant memory we may all relax until next year, that at least is what Zoe Eckersley of Knutsford thought. However, she had not reckoned on the waste disposal rules of Cheshire East Council.

When helping her children make a pumpkin lantern she scooped out the seeds and threw them in her green bin used for garden waste.

Big mistake!

Her bin was left unemptied. However, an official yellow form had been attached identifying the pumpkin seeds as the forbidden "waste".

For why?

Seemingly there was a risk of "spreading disease", in fact all home grown veg are banned from green bins by this council.

By the way the council won't empty the bin, even if she removes the seeds, until next spring.

As per the Mail Councillor David Topping, cabinet member in charge of the environment, said:

"All of our waste collection crews are trained to assess the contents of garden bins before they are emptied into the collection vehicle, and they will not be emptied if the crew find any waste that could be considered as food waste.

As garden waste was sent to local farms for composting, they could face prosecution if food waste was mixed in."

I would welcome comments from those who actually know about agriculture etc, as to my humble view the banning of pumpkin seeds on the basis of disease risk seems a tad OTT.

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Bin Brother - The Dangers of Wheelie Bins

My thanks to a loyal reader who guided me to the problems that George Whatley has been having wrt his rubbish collection on Canvey Island, which is meant to be organised by Castle Point Borough Council.

Having bought a wheelie bin he was less than gemused (as a retired health and safety worker) to be told that the plastic bag of rubbish placed on top of the bin could not be collected because of health and safety regulations (ie it was too high).

Therefore why not place the bag within the wheelie bin I hear you ask?

Aha..No!

Health and safety rules seemigly prevent binmen from reaching into the bin to remove the bag!

The whole sorry tale can be read in the Mail.


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Bin Brother - Bin Bag Rationing

My commiserations to the good people of Monmouthshire, who are to be limited to putting out two bin bags of rubbish a fortnight in an attempt to make them recycle more.

For why?

The council's non-recyclables limit is the strictest in Wales; as it aims for recycling rates of 58% by 2015/16. Unsurprisingly, according to the BBC, more than 1,000 people have signed an online petition against the limit.

However, if the council is to be believed (who actually believes what their local council tells them?) they are in something of a bind; for they cannot afford to keep paying millions of pounds in landfill tax, nor fines for missing recycling targets.

Q: Why do the government/EU fine councils for not hitting recycling targets?

A: Because governments need money to function, and fining councils (which then pass on the fines to us) is an easy way to raise revenue.

The council believes up to 70% of what is thrown away is recyclable or food waste.

Belief is one thing, but facts are more often than not another.

That being said frankly speaking (to mount my hobby horse....can I say "mount" at this hour?) wasting food is a disgrace, most especially as there are so many people in the UK who are clearly eating too much anyway compared with the millions who starve elsewhere.

Has no one heard of bubble and squeak??

At some stage the profligacy of food in this country will be brought to a juddering halt. We are an island and cannot grow enough to feed ourselves; ie we rely on imports, which are becoming ruinously expensive as staple food prices (rice, grains etc) rise in response to lower yields and rising demand from a wealthier Asia Pacific.

Anyhoo, disregarding the fact that market forces will correct what Nanny's interference won't wrt food waste, the simple fact is that an average household (wasteful or not) will generally produce more than two bin bags of waste in a fortnight.

Monmouthshire has form for being bin fascists, in April, plans for clear bin bags that would have allowed the council to check on what people throw away were scrapped following opposition.

Whatever happens, one thing can be certain the good people of Monmouthshire will be fined for every "breach" of Nanny's rules.

Ker Farking Ching!

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Bin Brother - Green Brighton's Bin Strike

What is the one service that councils are responsible for, that we all use or interact with (whether we are residents or visitors)?

Refuse collection and street cleaning!

This is the one service, above all others, that councils cannot afford to screw up if they don't want to appear to be incompetent cretins.

Step forward Brighton's Green council (a copy of the Green manifesto promise from 2011 is proudly displayed above - observe the word "cleaner"), which has through incredible mismanagement and incompetence engulfed Brighton in yet another bin strike; this one has been going on for a week, and threatens to continue into next week.

The earlier bin strike took place in May, here is what I said about it then:

"Here in the Green "paradise" of Brightonia the binmen have gone on strike.

Call me old fashioned, but the one service that councils provide that absolutely everyone (resident and visitor) sees the results of, or comes into contact with, is that of refuse collection and street cleaning; ie it is the one service that the council really ought not to fark up!

Ironically councils throughout the land manage to fark it up on a regular basis!"

Welcome to Brighton!

As noted before many times on this site, councils are the enemies of the people!

Green Brighton council is particularly adept at proving that point.


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Bin Brother - Brighton Binmen Strike

Deep sigh!

Here in the Green "paradise" of Brightonia the binmen have gone on strike.

Call me old fashioned, but the one service that councils provide that absolutely everyone (resident and visitor) sees the results of, or comes into contact with, is that of refuse collection and street cleaning; ie it is the one service that the council really ought not to fark up!

Ironically councils throughout the land manage to fark it up on a regular basis!

Anyhoo, here is the council statement:

"None of our refuse, recycling or street cleansing crews are working today as a result of unofficial industrial action by our workforce in relation to pay negotiations.  Today is the second day that the service is not operating.

If you were due a refuse or recycling collection yesterday, Wednesday 8 May or today, Thursday 9 May, it will not take place.

Around 40,000 households will be affected by this disruption.  

The communal refuse and recycling vehicles are also not operating.  We are aware that this is resulting in bins overflowing.

Given the scale of the disruption we will not be able to collect missed refuse and recycling until your next scheduled collection day.  

Currently we expect collections to take place as follows:

Date	Refuse / Recycling collections
Wednesday 8 May	No collections. We were due to collect refuse and recycling normally collected on a Tuesday in line with our post Bank Holiday collection schedule. The next scheduled collection is Tuesday 14 May
Thursday 9 May	No collections. We were due to collect refuse and recycling normally collected on a Tuesday in line with our post Bank Holiday collection schedule. The next scheduled collections is Wednesday 15 May
Friday 10 May	We are expecting recycling and refuse collection crews to be working tomorrow.

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This may be subject to change and we will update this page regularly with the latest available information.

If your collection has been missed we advise you to take your rubbish and recycling to one of our household waste sites on Wilsons Avenue in Brighton or Old Shoreham Road in Hove or to wait until your next scheduled collection.

We are working hard to hire in extra vehicles and agency staff for next week to be able to deal with the extra volume of waste and recycling as a result of the missed collections.

Due to the disruption we are not taking any reports of missed collections and we will not be able to give you any additional information over the phone.  

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Service disruption FAQ

Why can't you hire in extra staff and vehicles to catch up on missed collections?
We employ over 100 staff on refuse and recycling who are out every day making refuse and recycling collections from 20,000 households.  They use a fleet of more than 30 specialist HGV vehicles.
Our staff know their rounds and are trained to drive and operate our refuse and recycling vehicles.   Because of this specialist knowledge and equipment we can not simply hire in 100 agency staff and 30 refuse and recycling vehicles to catch up the missed work.

What we are doing is trying to recruit agency staff and additional vehicles to make sure we collect as much of the extra waste and recycling on the next scheduled collection day.   "

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Bin Brother - The Twats From Merton!

In a move that proves Nanny has lost all sense of reality and is drunk with power, Merton Council intends to impose restrictions on when its taxpayers are allowed to place their rubbish out on the street for collection by the binmen.

Now, in theory, this is not unreasonable as a sensible "window" for rubbish placement will ensure that the streets are not awash with rubbish 24/7. Unfortunately, Nanny's chums from Merton Council have lost their collective minds.

The proposed "windows" for rubbish placement are either 17:00-18:00 (when most people are still at work) or 05:00-06:00 (when most people are still in bed). The collections will then take place immediately after the closure of each "window".

Brilliant!

Needless to say, those hapless residents who fail to comply with the diktat from Merton Council will be fined.

 

Ker Farking Ching!

 

The council is quoted by the Telegraph:

"Merton Council's drive to keep the borough's streets clean is taking another positive step with proposals to introduce a time-specific waste collection scheme in Wimbledon."

Councils are the enemies of the people!

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Bin Brother - The Wrong Box

My thanks to a loyal reader who pointed me in the direction of the knobheadery practised by Hertsmere Borough council, wrt recycling.

According to the Borehamwood Times, Paul Pritchard recently put an empty Thornton's chocolate box in his brown recycling box.

Big mistake!

For you see children, Nanny doesn't want cardboard placed in the brown box.

As we all know, it should have been placed in the GREEN BOX!

Mr Pritchard was duly punished by Nanny for his environmental "crime".

His punishment?

Nanny refused to empty the brown box.

Nanny is unrepentant, a jobsworth from Hertsmere council said:

"It was not emptied because the cardboard was put in the wrong bin. This is a resident error because it should go in the green bin. 

We do not take out contaminated items left on the top of a bin – because it is likely there is more underneath, either deliberately or by mistake. 

We work hard to educate people about what can and cannot go in different bins and regularly send out information about on it."

- "Resident error"!

- "Educate people"!

Pah!

A true jobsworth attitude if ever I read one!

Odd though, because I was under the impression that the taxpayers pay the wage bills of the council; as such aren't they meant to work for us?

Councils are the enemies of the people!

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Prats of The Week - Wiltshire Council

My oh my what a wet and windy Monday morning it is!

What better time to award my prestigious, and internationally renowned, Prats of The Week Award?

This week, courtesy of a recommendation from a loyal reader, it goes to Wiltshire Council (aka to the locals as the "lavatory council").

For why?

Just read the following about the council's rules wrt our old "friend" hi vis jackets, and who should wear them.

A Wiltshire council admin employee had been assigned to a day's ride with the local dustbin men, presumably to observe life on the front line etc.

I understand that the lady in question was ordered to wear hi vis for her day out. Given that the binmen all wear them, this may not seem terribly surprising. However, even though she was meant to observe/experience a day in the life of the binmen she was not allowed to leave the cab at all during the day (due to health and safety etc etc).

Therefore, given that she was safely sitting inside the cab all day (not learning anything about what the binmen actually do) I have to ask why the hell was she required to wear a hi vis jacket?

Wiltshire Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Bin Brother - Health and Safety

Oh dear, I see that Nanny's health and safety brigade are on the march again.

Kirklees Council have decreed that a binman must not cross Almondbury bank to pick up a bag of rubbish.

For why?

In the eyes of the council the road is too dangerous to cross.

Henceforth the binmen must empty bins one side at time.

Children and pensioners safely cross the quiet street.

Yet binmen, with hi viz jackets, are not allowed to!

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Prats of The Week - Shepway District Council

Good morning everyone!

Another week dawns, and what better way to start the week than by awarding another one of my prestigious and internationally renowned "Prats of The Week" Awards.

This week it goes to Shepway District Council.

For why?

For their bizarre decision to install "shouting lampposts".

Eh?

The lampposts (£4K each) are designed to photograph fly tippers (and are located near set of industrial bins behind The Old High Street in Folkestone). In addition, whilst the photo is being taken, the lampposts issue a loud verbal warning about not fly tipping and warning people that the lamppost is taking a picture.

Now the theory behind all of that sounds perfectly fine, if it really does deter fly tippers.

However, there is one small fly in the oinkment here.

For reasons that are pretty obvious to all but those in the council, the lampposts cannot distinguish between fly tippers and anyone else who happens to walk near the vicinity of the bins.

The result being that the lampposts take pictures of everyone, and shout (like a drunk waving a vodka bottle) at all and sundry!

Shepway District Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!




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Prats of The Week - Bolton Council

Congratulations to Bolton Council for winning this week's "Prats of The Week" Award.

For why have they won this fine award?

The council is spending more than £100K on texting congratulations to people who recycle properly.

The texts will include 'positive messages' and 'interesting recycling facts'.

For Fark's Sake!

Why bother?

Recycled waste tends to end up in land fills in third world countries anyway!

Bolton council, well deserving "Prats of The Week"!