Wednesday 14 July 2010

A rubbish waste collection service

I know it's not the most pleasant of jobs, but sometimes it's just a difference in attitude that makes a good service good, or a bad service a misery for residents; and collecting the waste is a service in my neighbourhood that just gets worse and worse.

We have communal bins, and I think our caretaker does a pretty good job keeping them tidy. But they have never been sufficient for the amount of weekly waste on our estate. So, blacks bags are stacked against the bins as the collection day nears. In days gone by all the caretaker had to do after the collection was straighten the bins and sweep up a little. Nowadays, though, any bag that's not in the bin gets left behind, often messily pushed to one side. The caretaker has to put them in the newly emptied bins, so there's already less space for next week, and of course longer for smells to build up as the contents rot. It's been even worse in the recent hot weather. And the bin men just don't care at all, their attitude to residents is one of contempt.

Can we have our old service back? I won't be tipping the bin men when Boxing Day comes.