Recycling bin day today. Put out big green bin (garden waste) and green box (plastics, glass and metal.) Green box new - last one disappeared in 50mph gale (green boxes not very heavy when empty), so thoughtfully left lid on to reduce aerodynamic properties and as afterthought placed heavy brick on lid on account of strong winds of about 51mph, with worse forecast.
Went out for day on coach trip to Buddhist temple. Om.
Returned 6:30pm. Brick OK, but no sign of green box, nor of next-door-neighbour's green box.
Green bin on side propping up car. Green boxes probably blown into Irish Sea for all I know. Om.
"You would think, wouldn't you..." but question rhetorical. Bin men nowadays are paid to complete round in fastest time possible, not think, or stick thoughtfully provided heavy brick back on top of empty green box. Om.
But questions remain. If I placed large objects on pavement outside my property on any day other than bin day I would be deemed to be obstructing said pavement, in case mums with pushchairs are forced into the road because of them and get squashed by a passing steamroller or charabanc or blind people fall over them, and I would probably be collared or at least rebuked by a constabule, but council bins seem immune to the consequences of obstruction-causing behaviour, as do their masters. Om.
And if I drove along the street scattering plastic bottles and tin cans willy-nilly I would face an on-the-spot fine for littering, but council waste disposal operatives seem similarly exempt from such due process of law, so residents have to spend much of bin-day removing the rubbish deposited on our streets by council vehicles and returning it to the same bins it came from, ready for the next Brian Rix farce in a fortnight. Om.
I have a suggestion to make. Wyre BC could save an absolute fortune by cutting out the middlemen. Residents could just empty their bins straight into the street and save the bin-men the trouble of doing it for us.
Om.
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