27 July (Part 1) - It’s bin collected
Until
Friday I had never reported
a missed bin and
I thought that at best it would remain full until Monday and more likely for
another fortnight but it was collected around 9 a.m. Saturday morning.
Unusually the bin was full. Several kitchen bin bags from Sainsbury’s
and all full of lightweight stuff such as Cellophane from packaging, things like
this bag of liquorice and a lump of polystyrene. The whole lot may not have weighed as much as half
a kilogramme. I remember having to push the last bag down a bit to get the bin lid shut.
Bearing in mind that the Council website said my bin had been collected and it
had moved from where I put it AND when I examined it the uppermost bag was missing, my
theory is that the bin was taken to the truck and inverted; the top bag fell out
and the others somehow jammed themselves together and stayed put.
The whole lot was so light in weight that the bin man would not have noticed as he wheeled
the bin back to the footpath. Maybe I should stop using ‘sticky’ bin bags.
Probably I should let Cabinet Member Richard Diment off, it looks as though the circumstances may have been a bit freakish.