30 October (Part 2) - Wandering wheelies
The brown bin fiasco shows little sign of abating. True the anti letters in this week’s News Shopper were down from four to one but
Streetlife is still kept
busy by victims of Bexley’s incompetence.
I have been very lucky, an early subscriber (10th June) to the service, my new bin was delivered on
11th September and I’ve not missed a collection.
Until yesterday, the old bin I had been using - strictly speaking it was my
neighbour’s but he does no gardening at all - was parked outside my house,
unwanted as it has been for almost two months. There
were no more nearby but there were lots a bit further along the street. Those
shown above are
the same as those shown a week ago except they are now a threesome.
Yesterday I returned home from an all day trip north of the river and it was obvious that some of the bins
had been moved while I was away. Mine had disappeared entirely. More worrying so
had the new one which is usually stored in the front garden some 25 feet from the
road and totally hidden from view.
I found it not too far from home but it is a mystery that it had decided to take a walk. And it is not the first time.
Last Friday was a collection day and my bin disappeared entirely. It was
eventually located in the front garden of a house five doors away.
When brown bins were discussed in a council meeting it was said that that sort
of thing could not happen because a computer on board the refuse truck would ensure that the bin men
knew who had paid the tax. The neighbour five doors away has not paid the bin tax so it’s double incompetence.
The whole system is a mess. Wandering bins and wandering garden waste may prove to be the system’s principal weakness.