5 April (Part 2) - Council breaks your bin. Wait five months for another
You
first saw
this notice in early December last year unless of course you noticed it
around the end of October when it appeared in the Bexley Magazine.
Get using your food waste bin because, as
Cabinet Member Richard Diment keeps
telling us, it makes money for the Council; so on 11th November someone who
lives not far from me asked for a new bin because his had gone under the wheel
of a refuse truck and he expected to be able to dispose of his turkey bones responsibly as Bexley Council requested.
And he waited.
And his
Councillor Sally Hinkley got involved and he was told when the replacement bin might arrive.
And he waited.
Sally raised the subject
at a Scrutiny meeting. And the wait went on.
And on.
Until yesterday when a brand new fox proof food waste bin showed up. But not in time
for “the festive season” as promised. Not even in time for Easter and the stale
Hot Cross Buns. (Thank you Sainsbury’s.)
Well done Bexley Council, another
demonstration of how good your managers are.
It is probably not a coincidence that my
garden waste bin disappeared yesterday.
By a stroke of rare good fortune I retrieved a whole load of fly tipped timber
soon afterwards so I will be able to make an extra compost bin.
My resident fox won’t be happy because she used to hide between the bin and the house wall when it was raining.