Manchester City Council strikes again
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
July 21, 2016 3:08pm CST
This is not intended to infer a strike in the sense of stopping work, but yet another devious trick from them.
Many moons ago we had dustbins that were emptied every week. The original dustbins were replaced by wheelie bins, but residents had to start leaving the dustbins outside for collection and retrieving them from wherever the refuse collectors dumped them.
Next they reduced the collections to every two weeks, which would clearly reduce the costs. This was then amended by adding recycle bins so that we could separate the rubbish and make recycling easier for the council.
Today I received an email from Manchester City Council which stated that the 240 litre dustbin was being replaced by a 140 litre dustbin. The reason given was that people would now have no choice but to split all the rubbish into glass, plastic, paper and so forth for recycling because it will not fit into the smaller dustbin.
I have no complaints about recycling, but do object to having to sort out all rubbish prior to collection. Some items would actually need dismantling in order to be sorted into separate bins.
Every year they reduce the services that they supply, but increase the Council Tax that I have to pay.
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10 responses
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
21 Jul 16
It is the way of municipalities to reduce services and increase costs, then they can use the extra money to raise the council members salaries!!
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Jul 16
At one time they would not accept glass jars in the glass bin here. This really caused a problem because it was left unemptied with a label stating that some unsuitable contents were included.
It took ages to discover what the problem was.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
26 Jul 16
Amazing what they come up with, isn't it? Yes, we are always getting less for more here.
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@moffittjc (128832)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jul 16
Sounds like typical government! In reading through all the comments, one thing that stuck out at me was that the recycling rules seem to be different from location to location. Some municipalities are more strict than others. Luckily, where I live, they still keep it pretty simple...all paper products in one bin, all glass, plastic and metal in another. It makes it easier to recycle when we can commingle our recyclables. When they come to pick it all up, they take it to the recycling facility and it is there at the facility that the workers separate everything into their proper piles. If they tried to make us do that, no one would recycle!
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
21 Jul 16
They aren't that strict here.
We have to separate recycling from non recycling but that's about it.
We've got 2 industrial sized bins here although they are overflowing due to the builders blocking the back courtyard so they couldn't get in to take the bins away.
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
21 Jul 16
@Asylum that's just stupid.
they want all the work done for them.
i'd try and join up with people and withhold council tax.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Jul 16
@Mike197602 That is exactly what it amounts to, getting the residents to do as much of the work as possible to save the council the cost.
It will not stay at this level and before long they will introduce further regulations.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
24 Jul 16
I take a bag of mixed rubbish out with me to dump in public litter bins - the recycling game is a nonsense intended to generate fines on those getting the wrong bin, and there is bound to be some cross contamination anywhere - they should generate work by hiring people to sift and seperate rubbish at the tips rather than fining pensioners for getting newspaper in with the tins and bottles
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@garymarsh6 (24006)
• United Kingdom
21 Jul 16
They are idiots and when the dust cart comes along they are all emptied into the same blooming cart!
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
21 Jul 16
"Every year they reduce the services that they supply, but increase the Council Tax that I have to pay."
But they're public servants so they have to work for the public good and that means making the public work. 
They're responsible for those tax dollars, ya know.
There really is no new thing under the sun.
They're responsible for those tax dollars, ya know.
There really is no new thing under the sun.1 person likes this
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Jul 16
We used to be allowed two collections per year for large items, such as a bed or cooker etcetera. Now we are charged a fee for every collection. When I had a new carpet fitted I paid the company and extra £40 to take the old carpet away because the council would have charged more. Then they wonder why fly tipping occurs.
