Stick up for the PROPER binmen, by all means
Generally cheerful, doing a job I couldn't/wouldn't do in a million years.
The community service brigade on the recycling rounds though are obnoxious workshy jobsworths (oxymoron?) who refuse to take your cardboard for health & safety reasons if the velcro flap across the top of the bag won't fasten. Those 3 extra Weetabix boxes must weigh a fucking ton.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Thu 27 May 2010, 22:40, 2 replies)

Ours are lovely...
The same crews do wheelybins one week and recycling bags the next, they take other stuff when there's room and run up the road heaving stuff into the truck at phenomenal speed. We'd truly be in the shit without them.
I love the New York idea..
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Fri 28 May 2010, 9:45, closed)

actually cardboard doesn't recycle - it has to be composted. Same goes for the Financial Times, oddly.
(johnjohnjohnextra2, Fri 28 May 2010, 12:22, closed)

You surprise me
If that's the case, why do we have to separate it from the garden waste, which I presume goes a similar route?
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Fri 28 May 2010, 17:43, closed)

you shouldn't have to, cardboard easily breaks down in the huge mounds of hot compost at the treatment centres - sounds like you're workin too hard!

- Touched by the love everyone, thanks!
(johnjohnjohnextra2, Sat 29 May 2010, 15:30, closed)