Rotting food mounts with no collection for seven weeks

“absolutely fuming! where do i start? i never leave my 2yr old outside unattended. what a ridiculous thing to say where all of the rubbish (food and recycling) is we have to pass eerytime we want to go out. therefore its within reaching distance of my daughter isnt it?!!! how would you all feel if it was right outside your front door? its rotting food and reccycling which can be dangerous. 8 weeks its pushing it by anybody standards. also my hubby has taken 2 lots to the tip, but isnt that defeating the object? why shouldnt we get ours collected like everybod else? we have been fobbed off and fed too much **** recently and we have had enough. as for somebody saying get a life guess what? this is our life' open the curtains or front door and its right there!!!! they have the resources to collect they have told me repeatadly so why not come and do it?????? i would like to point out too that I am not here to judge who is blocking the road or point the finger at GCHQ workers. The council know theres a problem and only they can solve it.....its as easy as sending a smaller cart not hard is it?????????”

“Dear Alix, there are a number of local parenting classes available.”

“Its 50/50 on the parking, it is a mixed bag !! I would say the houses and flats are allocated 1 parking space, as we live in a day and age that this is not the case the average family has 2 cars?? !! also a proportion of houses have multiply occupancy this then leads to more than one car ?? IE Parking problem... If we want to lay blame go back as far as the council for given the builders planning permission for the house/ flat to be built !!! to many crammed into a small area ... then next blame the council for not adopting the roads around here, then restriction can be enforced ... yes bring on the YELLOW LANES ... ??!!”

“When will you blame GCHQ workers rather than residents ? I'm waiting :)

Also certain houses at the end of the cul-de-sac's in south court and responsible for a large proportion of the 'anti-social behavior' and has been noted by most the residents in the area whom are fed up of the behavior, can we have a story about that instead?

Wonder if someone will report this to get it removed, it's factual not defamatory!”

“For people that say, why don't they just shove it in the normal waste, or why don't they just throw less away or compost it, why should they? CBC has taken it upon itself to devise a particular method of waste collection, and something that they are failing to do. These residents are perfectly entitled to receive the same level of service that everyone else served by CBC receives. The two main services that are visible to most of us are waste collection and the roads (which are in a dreadful state). If the council cannot get these services right it does make you wonder how effective they are at delivering other services to the more vulnerable of our society who have less of a voice. Care to the elderly is a lot less visible than waste collections, are the council as lack in their provision of these services as well?”

“That's the trouble with these modern housing estates where all the houses are crammed into a tiny plot of land...”

“If they aren't prepared to make recycling practical in this cul-de-sac, and the additional waste makes twice-weekly nornal collections impractical as well, because of the recycling having to go in black bins, residents should just call the council's bluff and say thay'll need extra black bins. It's not widely known that if a home really needs more bins, rare as that ought to be, extra bins will be made available. The council will then have to officially recognise that there's a problem.”

“Don't know what their problem is really, as suggested put it in with the general bin collection, if that is being collected ok. Few weeks ago when it was wet and windy I put all my cardboard re-cycling in a re-cyclable bin bag, I left it open so that they could see what was in it. I usually use one to cover the cardboard, an every week they take it with the cardboard. That week they put the bag with the cardboard in the re-cyclable bag back on the pavement, but took all the magazines and papers etc, in a non re-cyclable sainsbury's bag, including the sainsbury's bag. I just thought sod them, and got a council bin bag shoved it in there and stuck it with the general rubbish. Perhaps they should do the same it its only food and re-cycling they are not taking. Be pro-active rather than complain to the local paper.”

“If it's only the waste food that hasn't been collected, that means that the regular refuse is being collected.

On the one hand, that makes it raised the question of why the food recycling trucks are apparently struggling to reach the same location that other refuse trucks can manage.

On the other hand, it makes me wonder why these people don't just put all of that rubbish in their normal bin and have it carted away instead of leaving it in the street for almost two months.

Not recycling a few potato peelings for a couple of weeks in this situation is not going melt too many ice-caps. Just chuck it in your wheelie bin and get on with your lives.”

“Rotting food?
dont throw it away eat it, and buy less next time. anything i have left over, never food, tea bags, coffee grounds, fruit peel, ect, i compost.”