Bin Collections.......

Hooray, Yippee.................! As from Tuesday (our bin day) we shall have weekly household waste collections EVERY week, Yes, that's EACH and EVERY week until the end of January 2008. How marvellous to experience normality again even just for 6/7 weeks.
I fail to understand which 'bright spark' in the Council came up with fortnightly collections, I mean we are supposed to be a civilised country (I suppose it's a matter of opinion) and let's face it even in Northern Cyprus our rubbish is collected at least twice a week! Now please don't anyone make the mistake of thinking it's much hotter out there than it is here because there is not all that difference in the temperatures for much of the time nowadays.
It's so good to think that I won't have my freezer space taken up with leftovers of fish meals, shellfish, chicken carcasses etc for a while at least. I freeze these things so that my bin doesn't stink my patio or garden out but OMG the times when I have forgotten to get the stuff out of the freezer in time for the bin collection! I used to use my freezer to stock up with food for different meals over the weeks, month but in the last couple of years the buying of fresh meats/chicken/fish has to be weighed up against what room I need to house the waste.

I also understand that there are 'bin police' who will slap a fine on you if the wrong waste is put into the wrong bin, now the daughter can be a bit scatterbrained at times and I live in fear in case she drops paper in the household waste, or in the plastics/tins box, or heaven forbid glass! Of course it isn't too difficult in the main, you just have to be totally aware when chucking anything out, but the daughter has raised a few questions - What if the paper is greasy/wet/dirty/got snot on etc? What if the cans have labels on (most do), are we to take them off? What if the plastic bottles have labels on that are paper? Why are plastic milk bottles allowed but not the plastic tops? What's wrong with plastic Yoghurt pots? - I can see her point, I have questions of my own; Cold ash is allowed in my brown bin along with garden waste but I put my cold ash in a plastic bag to stop it flying in the eyes of the bin men will I get fined for that or sued for someone going blind?! If I can put all garden waste in the brown bin why can't I put vegetable/fruit peelings in there too? this list could go on and on, so I no longer complain at the daughter I just keep checking (quietly) and hoping the choices I make will be the right ones!!!

And I live in hopes that common sense will prevail and weekly collections will be reinstated to lessen the stench of the bins that are often heaving with maggots. What's happening to a once proud nation and is it any wonder how young people will turn out when forced to live in 3rd world conditions, what pride can they ever have when walking down a tree lined avenue that stinks to high heaven!