Of Wheelie Bins and Weasels by Editor Tonyb. A Wheelie Bin Revolt

Of Wheelie-Bins and Weasels

As the coldest winter in thirty-years grips Britain, the overpaid Weasels, we elected to serve us, are turning on us, their hapless wage payers with a vengeance.

       Some, while claiming that the severe weather and icy weather had prevented the bin emptying service being carried out, but the recycling wagon was miraculously unaffected, refused to empty fully wheelie bins if there lids were open more than a quarter of an inch.  They also either fined households for leaving extra black bags, or refused to move them.

       As usual this bunch of Town Hall mafia quote, ‘Health and Safety, and the risk to their employees’ as the reason for not fulfilling their contract with the taxpayers, i.e. removing their rubbish.

1. Rubbish removal is not a free service, but one for which a compulsory payment has been made, in advance.

2. We, the householders, have already been forced to cram two weeks of rubbish into a bin that was designed to be emptied weekly.

3. WRAP has unlawfully introduced an enforced recycling programme; unlawful because no one can be ordered to labour (sorting rubbish) against their will, without pay and under duress, or threats of punishment. 

That is slavery or servitude and banned under international law.

4. If the Government, or councils, wish to recycle the rubbish we pay them to dispose of, that is up to them.  However, they cannot legally compel you, or I, to sort and grade the rubbish for them.  It is they who are our paid servants, and not as they would have it visa versa.

5. Waste recycling is not ‘green’ but a profitable business, and is run as such by, WRAP and local Councils. Yes, they’re profiting by our free labour.

6. The most efficient and environmental friendly way of disposing of household waste is to incinerate it and use the energy created to supply heat and electricity to homes.  The new generation of incinerators, with their air-scrubbers pose no environmental hazard.  It is estimated that if Britain incinerated its household waste, it would be the equivalent of building two new power stations.

6. ‘Health and Safety considerations’, is the excuse they use for not emptying a full wheelie-bin that cannot be pulled by one finger, or because the lid is raised more than a quarter of an inch.  “This,” they claim, “could pose a danger to our operatives.”

This of course the same excuse they used to end the practice of their ‘operatives’ collecting the bin from the rear of our properties, emptying and putting the bin back again.

       It would seem that since ‘bin-men’ were transformed into ‘refuse-disposal-operatives’ it has left them weak in the arm, and their managers even weaker in the head. But, logic dictates that if wheelie-bins cannot be collected and emptied without creating a ‘risk’ to able bodied ‘refuse disposal operatives’, then wheelie-bins must be an even graver threat to us, the untrained householders; and positively deadly to pensioners and the disabled.

7. If local Councils insist on playing us for fools at the bequest of the fool and climate change charlatan, Hilary Benn, then let them take heed.  Two can play the “Risk Assessment game, and I’ll warrant that we can play that game far better than they.

8. From today, Saturday 9^th January 2009, I would advise all householders to conduct a ‘risk assessment’ before putting out their wheelie-bins because as our local councils have pointed out, such a risk exists.

       If, after doing a ‘risk assessment,’ you feel that dragging a wheelie-bin could injure you, or damage your health, do not to do it.  Under Health and Safety legislation a person has a right not to expose themselves to unnecessary risk, on behalf of someone else.

(See Judith Hackitt CEO Health and Safety Quango)        

I have designed a form that you can download to fill in and send to your local council, stating that as they have failed to empty your bins weekly, that you consider it to be a ‘risk’ attempting to attempt to move it laden with a fortnight’s waste.  Therefore, unless their ‘refuge disposal operatives’ are prepared to collect the wheelie bin from your premises, for emptying, you will therefore be forced to leave black sacks of refuge for them to collect on a weekly basis, to avoid encouraging vermin.