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Archive => Archived Boards => Local Issues => Topic started by: sooty2 on March 30, 2010, 06:08:58 PM
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Does anyone agree that the Blue waste paper/ cardboard bins look terrible? None of them look good littering peoples drives or gardens, at least the black, green and brown ones are not so obvious. I think if we are to have these bins they should at least be neutral colours. Who ever thought blue was a good colour either has no taste or douldnt care less :'(
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I suggest you may like to consider this site:
http://www.jodex.co.uk/section.php/48/2/sticky_back_plastic
If you order the brick effect, then your blue bin will look invisible against your house. :D
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I like the idea marveld but not sure I'd want an invisible bin! I do like the walnut effect or perhaps the gingham...The blue bins are an eyesore of this there is no doubt, any refuse collection system should really employ neutral colours to maintain an area's appearance. Why blue???
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I jogged down Windlehurst Road in leafy High Lane yesterday at the crack of dawn (part of the new fitness regime; no more creme eggs :() and the blue bins placed at the end of people's driveways ruined the entire aesthetic of the place. I'm actually considering a strongly worded letter to the council to register my views regarding these blue bins.
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Looks like its just you and me that find these bins worth mentioning. I was told ,dont know if its true or not that they cost eighty pounds each!!!!
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what colour are they in other areas . [ Hyde etc .
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Having recycling bins in different colours is a good thing. You know which bin to put in your papers/plastic/garden waste and you know which day to put the appropriate bin at the front of your property for collection.
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That goes without saying. But not colours that stick out like a sore thumb.I have seen purple on my travels!They should all be neutral colours.Which colour is an assault on your eyes? Blue,Blue,Blue! :'(
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That goes without saying. But not colours that stick out like a sore thumb.I have seen purple on my travels!They should all be neutral colours.Which colour is an assault on your eyes? Blue,Blue,Blue! :'(
I knew we'd find something to agree on if we waited long enough, sooty..... ;)
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Just paint your house blue. Than the bin won't stand out so much.
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what colour are they in other areas . [ Hyde etc .
just to let you know they are blue all over tameside area we have black for household waste collected fortnightly, green for plastics collected fortnightly brown for garden waste collected monthly and blue collected monthly
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That goes without saying. But not colours that stick out like a sore thumb.I have seen purple on my travels!They should all be neutral colours.Which colour is an assault on your eyes? Blue,Blue,Blue! :'(
I knew we'd find something to agree on if we waited long enough, sooty.....
Result ;D But im not packing my tin hat away just yet ;)
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Not one mention of the blue bins on last night's poor excuse for a serious debate on the 'issues' concerning this country. And why? Because the big three probably don't have blue bins littering the roads surrounding their ivory towers!
And talk about style over substance! I know at least two staunch Tories who are now going to vote for the Lib Dem chap because he 'looks friendlier' and 'had a better haircut'. Sweet lord, if elections can be decided on a few 90 minute programmes, where no-one listens to WHAT is being said, but HOW it is being said, then we, my fellow countrymen, are heading into the brown stuff...
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Are we having another bin this year instead of the blue bags . quite used to the bags now
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I hope not! but suspect we will. Some clown may give the go ahead for flourescent orange :'(
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Not one mention of the blue bins on last night's poor excuse for a serious debate on the 'issues' concerning this country. And why? Because the big three probably don't have blue bins littering the roads surrounding their ivory towers!
And talk about style over substance! I know at least two staunch Tories who are now going to vote for the Lib Dem chap because he 'looks friendlier' and 'had a better haircut'. Sweet lord, if elections can be decided on a few 90 minute programmes, where no-one listens to WHAT is being said, but HOW it is being said, then we, my fellow countrymen, are heading into the brown stuff...
I agree. I think we should make bins a local issue for our candidates in the General Election, and ask them all what their bin policies are.
The answers might go something like this:
Labour: Until 1997, when the Tories were in power, the people of Hazel Grove only had one bin. Since New Labour was elected there has been a 400% increase in the number of bins made available to hard-working families in this area.
Tory: The Conservative Party believes in people organising their own bins.
LibDem: For 65 years, the two main parties have been in control of bins, and look where it has got us. It's time for a change.
Communist Party: All citizens will have the same bins.
UKIP: British bins.
Green Party: Green bins
BNP: White bins
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Brilliant! Don't think one could top that analysis - maybe time to draw an end to this topic?
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Just wondered why you keep trying to put a halt to my topics? eventhough you eventually came round to my way of thinking on the Seventeen windows fiasco.
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The Blue bin is to have another sibling in October! A Black one for non-recycleable rubbish. Why,if as we are told nearly all rubbish is recycleable do we need a great big bin to put it in, or is it because it won't be emptied very often? It's crazy, 110,000 yes a 110,000! more eyesores littering the streets, drives, back and front gardens. This is the kind of street furniture we really don't need.Homes not suitable for these delightful items will carry on with the existing blue sack or will it be another another colour? You know just for a costly change?