Hats off ....... DONT put rubbish in the bin.

[packercolinl]

I don't get it either.

Where I am it doesn't what you do with rubbish,ultimately WE pay.

Col.

[eno]

I suspect there might be more to this than meets the eye. I wouldn't believe anything printed in the Sun for a start. The council spokesperson said this chap dumped more than just a couple of letters as he claims. Maybe he makes a habit of dumping his rubbish in the street litter bins. From the look of it that's only a small bin, the type attached to a lamp post & intended for general litter. I don't know how regularly it's emptied but if everyone used it for their household rubbish instead of disposing of it properly it would soon be overflowing with no room for the type of litter it was intended for.

The council have dropped the case due to the adverse publicity ...."We couldn't find enough evidence.".... read "We couldn't take the heat because we cocked up."
From the other information I've seen on the local news programmes a Council Inspector did a spot check on the bin...... there was a plastic bag with household waste filling the bin ...... and the 2 bits of junkmail underneath, because the junkmail had an address on it they ASSUMED the bag  was from the addresse of the junk mail.

In other words some petty official was trying to justify his job title thinking that the schmuck  he was targeting would roll over and payup. The man in question wasn't quite as soft a target and they've ended up with egg on their face.

[KDSM]

Ahhhhh  ass u me d

[KDSM]

still a trash can here in america, is a trash can. You can throw away your trash, they encourge it. Public waste, well if you think about it public waste was domestic waste. Would they mind industrial waste instead?

well it's takin your garbage to work and dumping it in your employers garbage.
they dont like it and if you get caught youll get fired.

[MattNW]

Posted by: candle_86

No not really most major cities make trash a part of another service, like here in Fortworth is part of the water bill. In rual areas you have this wonderful thing called a burn barrel

I live in a rural area. We burn what we can but the stuff that doesn't burn needs to be disposed of somehow.

Quite some time ago we had  a problem around here of people just chucking their trash out of the back of a pickup late at night. The highway had bags of garbage and litter all over. Cost the county a fortune to pay people to pick it up. Why they didn't use jail inmates for this I'll never understand but that wasn't done at the time.

Someone smart in the county council decided to put some nice big dumpsters at several places along the highway. Not long after everything started looking better. Almost no litter to be seen along the highway. People were putting almost all trash in the dumpsters.

Smart people eventually go on to other duties and new dumba$$es get elected. Someone heard that maybe just possibly on the off chance that sometimes someone unnamed from another county or just passing through would throw a Mc Donalds Happy Meal package in our county dumpsters. This just couldn't be. Those were for our residents and the cost of emptying them and disposing was part of our county's taxes.

The solution was to take them out. Now residents have to take their trash 12 miles to a collection site where the dumpsters are kept behind a locked fence and sign their name and show picture ID every time they take even a single bag to prove they live in the county. Over time they even decided to charge for disposal. At present it costs $1.75 for small bags and $2.50 for a large bag.

Guess what? The roadsides look like crap nowdays.