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Clampdown on Walsall bins left outside
Friday 17th September 2010, 12:48AM BST.
Walsall residents are being ordered to remove bins from footpaths by 10pm on the day of collection or face possible court action and fines under new tougher council policy.
Problems with bins being left out for days obstructing footpaths has led the council to adopt existing powers allowing it to enforce the new council policy under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA).
Other revisions to the council’s policy include the threat of enforcement action should extra waste be left out by the side of bins, if bin lids are left open and where the wrong waste is put in the wrong recycling bins.
Householders in Walsall have three bins – grey, green and brown for general waste, green waste and recycling items like glass and paper. The new policy states that people should “return bins to their property by 10pm on the day of collection, even if there is no specific complaint.”
Those found to be persistently ignoring the rules could face a summary conviction and a fine of up to £1,000.
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ANOTHER WAY FOR THE COUNCILL TO GET MONEY STOP SPENDING ON FREEBIES FOR YOU COUNCILLORS
DONT WE IN WALSALL PAY ENOUGH ALL READY!!!!!!!!!!!
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the council will be clamping pushchairs next
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What if you live in a terrace house with no front garden ??
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Surely there are more important things to be worrying about than chuffing bins, but then I suppose local councils needs to generate revenue from somewhere…
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I’m all in favour of this as I frequently have bins left on the pavement outside my house , sometimes for the weeks on end and this is n’t due to people being away. the owners of the bins are at home and just can’t be bothered to move them! It isn’t always nice to look out of your window and see lines of bins for days on end.
However, who do you report this to and in reality who is going to police it?
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Why should we pay for the lazy attitude of binmen who should put the bins back on people’s pavements or drives.
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Good! Looks a right mess and blocks paths….
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Bring it on!
(although the council have said this before and nothing happened)
It takes me less than 2 minutes to bring my bins back in on collection day.
Fed up of lazy, selfish, uncaring householders who couldnt give a damn about other residents having to walk round their unsightly, stinky obstructions. Some leave all three types of bin on the pavements permanently.
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So Pete, are you on the dole or a pensioner then, or are you fortunate enough to bea kept man?
Families that work (we are both out of our house by 8:20am) how are they supposed to meet this requirement exactly?
Will Walsall Council shortly be introducing break times for their staff to return home to put the bins away?
Yet another, half baked, half cocked idea from Wasall Councils think tank jumped upon by lilly livered liberals and the politically collect. Why doesn’t this council(assuming this isnt poor scaremongering reporting) simply say that all bins should be back on the property by 10:00am the following morning rather than try and fine people into submission?
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Biffo
They are giving you until 10PM at night to put them away.
I hope however that they fine their own operatives who ignore the stuff that they spill and just leave it in the road, I am always picking up rubbish from the street that has been left by the refuse collectors.
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Thats fine, however on bin day I’m out of the house before 9am to work and have evening lectures at university until 9pm, no way of getting back for 10pm by bus.
I’m far fromk the only person who is away from the house from before bin collection till after 10pm.
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It’s 10pm, not 10am.
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And by the time you had finished this rant you could have had the bins in.
Enough said!
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Biffo,
Am i on the dole, a pensioner or a kept man?
For your information i work shifts and have done for the last 30 odd years. Not that its any of your business but when i am on an early shift i will bring the bins in when i get back in the afternoon. If on an afternoon shift i do it before i go to work. Simple.
If you had read the article correctly it states you have untill 10pm on the day of collection to remove your bins.
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Is this some sort of joke?
For 4 years Ive been complainin that the whole of oir cul-de-sac bins are left in the road or in my parking spaces outside my property & that the bin men wont pull my bin 2 mtrs from my house as its not on the Pavement!
This council are having an absolute laugh I tell ya!
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does this mean the binmen will put empty bins away tidily instead of dumping them in the middle of the pavement!!!
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This country is not run for its citizens but for the petty, power-hungry, incompetents who shuffle their way into positions over us.
We’ll post our moans on newspaper websites but we won’t actually do anything about it, and so the tiny majority of political party weirdos, whose idea of a good evening is pushing badly written political leaflets through the doors of their apathetic neighbours, will continue to find themselves in roles for which they are entirely unqualified.
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All very well fining householders, can we fine the council when bins are not collected on the days they suppose to be?
And are we also to believe council workers will be working at 10pm in the evening. Treble time anyone?
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No problem with this as long as the bins are actually emptied by 1000am – most the time it is around 1100am so can’t get the bin in by 1000am.
Also how do I do this when myself and my wife are at work by 0800am??
Then again I forgot I’m in the minority within Walsall – e.g I work
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10pm read the article properly
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You have bin told.
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What a sad world we live in,you know in time these stupid council officials will be patrolling the streets with guns,they have got too much power
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For those who cant understand or didnt read the article properly:
10 P.M. is in the evening (usually it will be dark) thats the time the bins should be removed by.
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Oh well, bring on the fines.
Or maybe a neighbour will be kind enough to get my bin in for me.
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Are they also going to fine the bin men who leave the bins scattered all over the place and almost in the road?
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I wouldn’t mind so much if the dustbins weren’t left in next doors street, as happens on occasions. The one day I reported my bin stolen as I couldn’t find it anywhere. Luckily I had a moan to the shopkeeper who informed me there was one at the bottom of the street that had my house number on. Since then, I have found it in that same street on a few occasions, maybe as I live on a busy road they push the bin to a safer street to empty and just dump it there – that’s the sort of attitude and lazyness I have come to expect though.
Why don’t they be so officious with more important matters like motorists parking on pavements and blocking them with their cars and vans?
You can move a bin if you are pushing a pram but you can’t with a car and have to go into the roads to get around them.
No doubt this would meet more resistance so they choose the easy route of stealth tax and just fine people for nonsense like this.
So we’ll have more clipboard warriors on the prowl in Walsall, with their council ID badge displayed and a code of good practice that we must all follow or else!!! You have to laugh at them or it’d just bring you down.
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I live in a block of flats where upto 10-15 unmarked bins are left out on the pavement all week,whereas I pull my 2 bins back to the block,away from the footpath. What stops the council from giving me or others not flouting the rules fines over this? In this situation,I don’t know how they can enforce this rule. I’m certainly not going to take responsibilty for moving all the other bins,just to not get a fine I can’t afford! A £1000 is almost one third of a years benefits to me,as I’m currently looking for work!
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