FOLLOWING the disruption over the past two days caused by the snow and ice Warrington Borough Council’s waste services team will resume blue and black bin collections in the morning, Thursday December 23.
Extra resources will be put into collecting from those properties that were not visited this week due the freezing conditions starting with Tuesday collection areas tomorrow
then moving on to Wednesday collection areas on Friday. There will be no green waste collections until the New Year.
Should the weather situation change overnight this decision may have to be reviewed, please check www.warrington.gov.uk/winter
FOLLOWING the disruption over the past two days caused by the snow and
ice Warrington Borough Council’s waste services team will resume blue
and black bin collections in the morning, Thursday December 23.
Bin collection update
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Yet again our anally retentive vouncil fails to provide an essential service in the community. What about all the elderly and infirm who are unable to transport ther rubbish to a collection point?
We had exactly this situation earlier this year so it appars they learned nothing from that experience.
How about you publish the names of those responsible for this non-service so we can deliver our rubbish to their doors?
On a similar vein why couldn’t they use the staff who are unable to perform their usual duties (collecting the rubbish) to make some inroads into helping make the side streets that are not on the gritting runs a bit more safe for people. Goodness that might even mean they could recommence rubbish deliveries sooner – or would that be rocket science?!
Apologies for the couple of typos and “deliveries” where I meant “collections” but they really do irritate me with their incompetence.
It is a little frustrating but is it really a BIG problem if the bns aren’t emptied for a while. Looking back to earlier in the year when we all went for weeks with no collections everyone managed. Most of the elderly round here hadn’t filled their bins anyway and for those who had but who couldn’t manage to get to the collection points for whatever reason it wasn’t a problem. We did trips to the collection points and took other people’s excess (bagged up in binsacks) for them at the same time as we took ours. It really wasn’t a big deal and everyone just mucked in and helped each other out as people do 🙂
“How about you publish the names of those responsible for this non-service so we can deliver our rubbish to their doors?”
Well if you can do that, then you could take it to the special waste collection points that the council have set up. Try visiting their website for details instead of whingeing on. Now here’s the thing, those who are whingeing on about the council not doing this or that, tend to be the ones who can’t even be bothered to clear their own drives and pathways. Instead of whingeing on like a saddo, get out there and do your bit for society, for example go and offer to help the elderly and infirm.
Those who moan on about the so called incompetence of the Council, have no idea how to run a very big organisation, particularly one that tries to meet the competing and often contradictory demands of its residents, many of whom can’t even organise their own lives.
well said WarringtonEye! The Council can’t do right for wrong in the eyes of some people……..
Don’t know how Haggis thinks side streets could be gritted – how many are there for goodness sake? And no doubt he’d be the first to complain if my road was gritted before his!!
I’m with Haggis on this one, it may not be a huge problem that bins aren’t emptied in the scheme of things but it will be compunded by all the additional rubbish generated by christmas.it is another example of the poor quality of bin service provided by the council where the service seems to be run for the convenience of their employees rather than the customer. I bet a private contractor could have managed a bin collection as they wouldn’t get paid if they didn’t.