This should not feel like the triumph that it in fact does.

[bunn]

A couple of months ago, our council recycling service, which had started out seeming terribly prompt and efficient - stopped.    The black binbags were still collected, but nobody collected the brightly colour-coded bags of paper, tins, cardboard etc.

I rang the council, who promised a two-day 'emergency pickup' which duly came and took the

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[ladyofastolat]

Yay! Go you! I've heard you being enormously polite on the phone on Oldies business. We were all suitably awed. :-P

I like the idea of an emergency recycling pickup. I'm trying to envisage situations in which the collection of old newspapers and bottles could make the difference between life and death. "Do you want fire, police or ambulance, sir?" "None of them! My emergency is far worse than that! I need the emergency recycling collectors!" I do hope they come abseiling down from helicopters while dressed in black.

[bunn]

For some reason people are often surprised by my enormously polite act. Surprised, and a little terrified.

I have no idea why this is.

[puddleshark]

It does sound as if the council's 'customer services' go no further than answering the phone & saying 'All will be well'.

Now that your lane has been fitted back into Cory Environmental's schedule, probably somebody else's lane will have fallen out...

[bunn]

I'm absolutely certain someone else's lane has fallen out. I wonder how long it will take them to stuff themselves back into the schedule.

I am interested that it was clear from the council / Cory response that my complaining had been far more impactful than the complaining of my neighbour, and nobody else seemed to have registered at all. Since there were about 15 houses affected, I am a little surprised by this. I had thought of myself as probably one of the more lazy and ineffectual residents :-D

[ningloreth]

Well done!

We have a recycling collection every two weeks. I have three wheelie bins (and would have four, if I had a garden) but the first time I used them I made the mistake of putting IKEA wrappings (marked recyclable) in my glass and plastic bin... They taped it up with black and yellow tape and put a big sticker on the lid, saying they couldn't take it because it contained radioactive waste ;-)

[bunn]

Our recycling collection is every 2 weeks, and we have 3 smallish bags and a box for bottles. Cardboard in particular needs to be folded and refolded with extreme prejudice to get it all into the Official Bag. But I find I can usually get it in. I suspect that a few more collections, and the Official Bag is going to rupture, mind. And it's made of unrecyclable woven plastic :-D

[bunn]

!!! how dare you recycle recyclables! Stop that at once! :-D

[mcmurphy79]

Well done. I say good on u for emailing the counsellors, that's why they are elected - to represent u.

[jane_somebody]

...somehow I read it as The Garbageman Can-Can, which lead to a very strange mental image!