Look forward to the smell in the Summer :( yuk

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Website readers may be misled by the phrase ‘slop buckets’, which gives an impression of smelly, liquid waste.

The containers the council and its partner, Serco, are planning to talk to residents about introducing from July next year are five-litre caddies, with lids.

Householders would use them to temporarily store solid food waste and peelings in their kitchens before transferring the waste to 25-litre bins outside, which would be collected weekly.

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Why do we need the 25 litre bins? We already have a green wheelie bin for garden waste, which are collected fortnightly March to November.

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Mark Rowley, Waste Strategy Manager, Sandwell Council, it may surprise you to know that I purchased and paid for my house for my benefit, I didn’t purchase it to enable you to dump a myriad of various types of rubbish bins on my property!!!!!!!

What would Sandwell Mandarins say if I started putting up sheds outside the doors of Sandwell Council House, so I could store my rubbish there?

The sole reason for the implementation of these crack pot ideas is to save money for the council.

I would like to make the point that with the bins we already have, the refuge collectors can’t be bothered to put them back outside our houses and they often get dumped in the middle of the pavement outside someone else’s house.

Anymore bins delivered by the council stay on the pavement outside our house, unless of course Sandwell Council would like to discuss renting a section of my property, MY PROPERTY, not Sandwell Councils!!!!!

Jim of Bearwood

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Oh can it. its a slop bucket with a lid
(funny enough just like a SLOP BUCKET)
Don’t try to dress it up, this is a backward idea more akin to the old night soil operatives (gong cart, honey wagon) take us back to the 1700 keeping “SLOPS” in our own gardens.

Recycling my food, landfill oh please…. it rots above or below ground, so dont give me that slop (LOL)
One wonders what happens when the guys go on strike and we have buckets of rotting vomit smelling food in everyone’s garden?

Solid food waste. hmm mashed potatoes, cake and custard, rice pudding? cabbage (urk!)
No thanks “This is what we have bins for”

Then what about animals knocking these things over and eating the contents, we regularly have fox`s and badgers ripping open the bins even digging in the large plant pots for some reason. Also the bin men leave rubbish all over the street when they empty bins, what if they do the same here? yum!
Please think about this i know you can make money if you bung this stuff in a digester and syphon off the gas, but come on!

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So instead of putting all my waste food straight into a bin where it sits there until collected by Refuse Collectors, I’ll have to put it into a different bin where it’ll sit there until collected? Sorry but I can’t see what the problem is – either way waste food is going in a bin.
Sounds like a good idea to me!

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