Birmingham and Wheelie bins

Am I reading this right They're only just introducing wheelie bins to Birmingham, people are kicking up a storm coz they don't want them, I can't remember when we had em it's that long ago, I thought everywhere had em yonks back, please tell me that i'm reading this wrong and that the brummies aren't 25 years behind the rest of the country

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23975866

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birminghams-wheelie-bin-roll-out-take-5849325

 

i think the trubbles bin woody theyve only just started making um in brown?

 

i'm not from brum! we've had wheelie bins for years here in RUGELEY we have 3

 

ow no i dow

 

No wheelie bins here.

 

colours?

 

black for general waste blue for recycle brown for garden

 

i'm shocked but you live in the sticks, but birmingham, really,

 

Do you have The Electric Light where you live, Zed?

 

It's green for general waste in Stafford

 

I honestly thought we all had two or three whatever colour are they are, I can't remember not having them

 

no pink

 

We used to have black for general and green box for recyclables. The we got a green bin for household recyclables. Then they decided to introduce a new green bin for garden waste and introduce a blue bin for household recyclables. This leaves some people with black for general, green for garden, green for household recyclables and blue for household recyclables. I currently have 2 black, 2 green and 2 blues. Handy if want to keep your firewood dry or want to clean large parts with degreaser.


Am I boring you yet

 

It's a quiet backwater for sure. They are just about to introduce wheelie bins here as well though. I doubt it's a coincidence.
I don't have a water meter either.

 

I live in Birmingham. Yes, it's true. The backwards West Midlanders here are only just getting wheelie bins. Believe me, I'm just as flabbergasted, because everywhere else I've ever lived has had them YEARS ago.

Yes, they're also moaning about them. The local Tory Party sent round a "questionnaire" on people's views about the wheelie bins. I read it - I call it a "questionnaire" because it was one of the most biased pieces of tosh I have ever read in my life. All of the questions were heavily loaded in favour of trying to get you to say they were a bad idea and the council should have a re-think, with questions like "how inconvenient do you think pulling a heavy wheelie bin is likely to be for an elderly person?" It was the biggest pile of rampant NIMBYism I've ever read in my life.

So yes, point and laugh please - who knows, it might embarrass them into realising how backwards they are. I'm just glad that I wasn't born here and so can disassociate myself from the closed-minded attitude of some around here.

 

youre probabably a different council, as mad as it comes we are under lichfield not cannock

 

Crazy baby - whatever next!!!

 

How do you get online that's what I wanna know