Just had to phone Bury Council to complain that my blue bin was not emptied this week. You see it happens to Councillors as well.

We had put the bins out as normal but when I came out to go to work I’d noticed that the bin had not been emptied, and had a big sticker slapped on it saying “Ooops, we didn’t empy your bin because there is wrong stuff in it” or some such.

If that’s the case then fair enough, I will waste part of my life tonight on my arrival home having a look see. BUT – it would appear that the offending article namely a plastic plant pot tray from a garden centre  – had been removed and placed on one side – yet they still didn’t empty the bin.

I have just phoned to request that they come back to empty the bin, only to be told that it won’t be until next week!

Perhaps the Council needs to issue the list of several hundred forms of plastic that are/not acceptable – just so we know.

On another note a resident recently raised at the last Area Partnership meeting that they were told that they couldn’t put garden waste in grey bins. This is true providing you have a brown bin. If you don’t then you can add green waste to your grey bin.