Cheltenham bin men collect 10 more lorries full of rubbish than usual after Christmas

“Ronnie - Count your digits on one hand. That is at least as many points you are missing.

Who said anything about putting the recycling bin in the shed? you are the only one who mentioned that.

You seem to miss the very big point that the service that has been paid for - lets face it TBC like their money first - has not been delivered. I know some people in CBC area have not had collections as well and they are just as frustrated.

You also miss thte point that on the leaflet it clearly states food collections weekly. Perhaps I have met Dr Who and become a time traveller and just missed a week as i know a collection was missed.

And god forbid if you do spend time in your shed any way, at least you have room to put your excess in your "card board box" or blue bags that you may have got.

Who are you to question the amount of recycling i have anyway? If it is not collected, its not collected, whether the bin is full or not - though just to be clear, mine is in the green bin which is collected before the blue bin, therefore keeping the space free for the recycling stuff before the next collection.

Can't wait for easter and that cock up!”

“Ronnie - As you've said yourself, you are not finding the situation that much of an inconvenience, which is good for you, but many of us are. Not everyone has a shed in which to store excess rubbish bags, I don't: and nor do most people in my area, as we live in a small private courtyard with little space and a communal rubbish area. As mentioned before we've had to help elderly neighbours who are struggling to know what to do with all their extra waste. Some of them had their entire families over for Christmas day, opening presents, cooking for 15+ people, and now they are suffering for it due to the amount of rubbish that was naturally produced during that time, with lots of people under the same roof for 2-3 days. I have family in Hereford who had no trouble at all with their collection, it was merely a day or so later than normal. As others have said, why should Tewkesbury be any different to other counties. You may be finding it an easy situation, but try having some empathy for those who are not, especially the elderly.”

“The thing that gets people het up is the fact that a service is paid for, and when it is needed most it is not delivered. As was said people had plenty of notice collections were not going to happen, but the council knows that Christmas is going to happen a lot further in advance. We pay for directors and managers to 'organise' the delivery of services. People have no option but to pay their local councils, no matter how bad a service they are doing. As a business owner if I am not happy about my refuse collections I can get a refund or even change service provider, as a residential customer of the local council I have no such redress. How is it CBC managed to work out Christmas required rubbish collections and TBC didn't? So when some householders seeing their council doing a bad job, but the neighbouring council is doing a good job of course concerns are going to be raised. As a Prestbury resident this is of concern as over time we have changed from CBC to TBC and back to CBC, so I vote for a councillor on CBC but still vote for in the Tewkesbury MP election.”

“There is no need to be insulting - I am only recommending common sense. No, it is not ideal, but I still don't see why people need to get so het up about it. I'm not writing about this from the sidelines - I live in Tewkesbury (not a village, more's the pity) so we are also affected by the lack of a collection last week, but it's not going to cause that much of an inconvenience. Our bin is nearly full with another week to go until the collection, but I'm not concerned about storing the next week's rubbish in the shed, out of the way (I don't spend a lot of time in the shed in winter - it's a bit cold) for a short while until I can get rid of it. It won't fill the shed up - the bin itself would only take up a small amount of space if I felt so inclined to put it in there (which, of course, I don't as that would be a bit silly).”

“@Ronnie who cares? the last two comments I so agree with.

Just some questions though.

Have you not found your way back to your village yet, cos it is quite clear that one village is missing it's special person.

You say that i should store any excess in my shed and then put in my bin when it has been emptied. Why?? I should not be filling up my bin with items that should be collected with the original collection.
Why would I have a cardboard box for goodness sake? Do I just nip down to Aldi using my fuel etc to get some from the shelf filling (Aldi cos they let the customers have them) to put my excess recycling in. Your comment sums you up. How many people will think "TBC, bunch of fools, not gonna collect my rubbish, best get a cardboard box in". And lets face it as you put it, we knew when we had the leaflet drop.
On the point of the leaflet though, if you can read, it clearly says food collections weekly. Another lie, as that hasn't either.
My shed is for storing worthwhile items in, not rubbish that TBC can't schedule for. I am supposed to fill it up with rubbish cos somebody I have paid to do a job can't be ****d.
The website for updates? remember two years ago and the snow. TBC did not update the website for four months!
It will be four weeks when the next recycling gets collected. Not good enough.

I feel sorry for the bin men though, cos they only go where the numpty who does the schedule sends them and they will be the ones getting any adverse comments.

As I say, go back to your village, cos you are obviously lost.”

“"@Ronnie-who cares! what is being stated is that the residents of tewkesbury have had no bins emptied for over 3 weeks now" Just to add to that comment, how have Tewkesbury managed to get it so wrong compared to Cheltenham? Our normal collection, in Prestbury, was Thursday so the collection after Christmas was Saturday. This week our collection will be Friday. Next week our collections will be back to normal. So we still have the same service we always have throughout the year. At this time of year councils know people generate more rubbish then any other time of the year, so it is madness that the one time a colleciton really is needed Tewkesbury decide not to collect (I won't use the C word to keep you happy Ronnie). In fact it is counter productive because recycling rates will go down as people will just bag everything together and take it to the landfill, or littering will increase as bin bags are ripped open/split.”

“@Ronnie-who cares! what is being stated is that the residents of tewkesbury have had no bins emptied for over 3 weeks now......is this not what we pay our council tax for? they should make alternative provisions for households to get the bins sorted/emptied, its a heath hazard and the bins are now stinking!”

“You read about the blue bags on TIG, and didn't think to check that what had been reported was accurate by checking the official website? TIG is forever omitting information or just getting it completely wrong. I'm sure you can find a cardboard box or *something* to put your excess in. Failing that, how about storing it in a corner/the shed and putting it in the bin once it's been emptied? Surely you can't have *that* much extra to normal?

I just don't understand why people are getting up in arms about something that has been known about for months and that is, in the scheme of things, really quite unimportant. It's a bit of an inconvenience once a year and will be completely forgotten about by the end of the month.”

“Ronnie, so i used the word cancel. Wow. either way, as mentioned by others here, it is the busiest collection of the year. It even says so in the article. How much notice do they need to think? they are quick enough to cancel (yes that word) when it suits them.

The only suitable recycling container I have as I am not going to use the blue bags (cos I am not using my petrol etc again to collect them) is my recycling bin - you know the one they aren't collecting!!! DOH! And FYI it wasn't on the website I read about the blue bags it was in this paper.

I did read the leaflet and my thoughts then are as they are now. No going to the tip and what useless council employee drew up schedule. And unless things change, the collections will be the same this year as my collection day will be a bank holiday.”

“Whether it was cancelled or just not planned for in the first place is irrelevant. 'Months and months of warning', is no help whatsoever, as it does not mean you can do anything to prevent the extra amount of rubbish accumulated over Christmas. Maybe we should just all not wrap the childrens Christmas presents next year, so that we don't have to worry about the bag fulls of wrapping paper that needs to be disposed of!! And instead of doing all the Christmas cooking, lets just have our Christmas dinner in Macdonalds...that will save a lot of food packaging!! Ridiculous.
It's the busiest time of year, when lots of extra rubbish is naturally generated, and to not have a collection is simply wrong. The bins here are in a right state, I just hope all the extra black liners out there don't attract foxes and rats.”