Postal Letter

What are your views on the Daily Mail's campaign to abolish wheelie bins?

The story in yesterdays paper. Personally, I hate the things, but if they are abolished, where will THEY go? I have visions of a new film called 'I, Wheelie Bin'!

Public Comments

1. Its pathetic, typical Daily Mail rubbish, complete nonsense, whats a better alternative than wheelie bins?
2. i agree with it we have too many they are dangerous to disabled elderly and the blind , people pushing prams walk int he road to avavoidhem they are not even bibio gradable
3. what are they wanting uis to use instead of wheelie bins.. go back to placing bags on the street like they still do in some places in london.. have street cleaners regularily cleaning up the mess?? they may be big bad and ugly - but they are a necessity.. unless of course the recycling situation (and the over packaging issues) improves ALOT !
4. I don't like them and would be happy to see them go,they look unsightly lining the streets. I refused to have them and am still supplied with sacks which stay in the shed until collection day. That way no one else has to see them..............
5. I didn't know about it. But as for "where will they go?" ..... Where I live the neds / chavs / thugs (apply your regional dialect) steal them and set fire to them. Not purely for vandalism but because apparently they get quite a buzz from the fumes.
6. Great idea.its the way decent hard working people are pushed around by govt.local and national, that is the real issue.like the 80year old half blind war veteran being threatened with arrest for his bin lid being partially open,this present govt.has turned the country into a very unpleasant place ,unless your a criminal,layabout or worse..
7. It makes a pleasant change from them trying to abolish foreigners. An amusing, pointless waste of time. Obviously they think burying our crap in ever decreasing holes in the ground is the answer. Lappflight - Gordon Brown does not care about your wheelie bin predicament. This is a matter for the council. Curiously, most of the councils causing most grief, by things like ending weekly collections, are Tory councils.
8. I read that in the paper yesterday as well and I totally disagree getting rid of the wheelie bins and going back to putting black bags on the curb to be picked up by the bin men once a week was horrible and downright unhygienic and unsightly putting bin bags out for collection is just going to attract vermin like rats and mice and urban foxes and just make a mess of our streets. Since the wheelie bins came into use it makes the place look a lot more tidy and taken of vermin and rodent problems. I don't think the Daily rant has properly thought this through the Daily rant likes to jump on the band wagon look at their campaign to get rid of Johnathan Ross its relentless not a day goes past that they don't write something negative about him or their campaign against the BBC there's never a day that goes by when they aren't complaining about something the BBC did or the programmes that's on the TV. So no I disagree with abolishing the Wheelie bins I'll be keeping mine. EDIT:- I think the Daily Mail is out of touch with most people only with those people who live in middle England where the rest of us live in the real world.
9. I actually quite like the wheelie bins. There is a lot less bother with pests and split open bin bags now. Before the wheelie bins we had piles of black bags on the street every week. I'm pretty sure that they encouraged vermin and they often split, scattering rubbish up the road. We also have ones for garden waste now. Before they came along, garden waste used to be put out in a totally haphazard and bizarre way. Often it just went to landfill. Now it is composted.
10. Typical Daily Mail. Fcking idiotic and boring. Anyone with half a brain cell can see they're better. I think it's a sad reflection on the "not in my back yard" (literally) attitude of middle England. Kind of thing which makes my skin creep.
11. In my area we have to use a plastic Bag and then place it into the wheelie bin. This does not get rid the need for a large plastic bag. I thought just placing small plastic bags in the wheelie bin keeps the bin clean and tidy ,but NO------the refuse collectors will not empty it then. Seems daft to have a specially designed Vehicle to unload two wheelie bins at a time, into the truck without manual power....Within the same borough there are different practises . .
12. It's all rubbish!!
13. They want to take a step back to the days when everyone had a metal bin the dustman came and manually carried your dustbin to the dustcart spilling half of it's contents down your garden path.It's obviously written by people who wouldn't be capable of lifting anything heavier than a shopping bag and have never done a days manual work in their lives.
14. I've got no complaints against my wheelie bins. They've got two pages of rant on it today in the Mail, including a protest from to post off which I will post to my blue bin. the papers never brought back pound notes like they promised they would achieve!
15. It's silly rubbish really. A survey showed that most Daily Mail readers are actually in favour of them! The Mail's "campaigns" seem confused and random these days. One minute they were telling us all to use energy saving bulbs and were giving away free ones, the next minute they're running a campaign to "save the old fashioned light bulb"! It's ridiculous. We can never go back to the days of heavy metal bins, health and safety has seen to that. And has the Mail actually surveyed any places in Britain which don't have wheelie bins (some still don't)? Black bin bags clutter the streets a few days before bin day, and by the time they're collected they've been ripped open (by dogs or vermin) and there's food waste all over the street. Is that what they want us to go back to? And yeah if they're abolished the country will be cluttered with wheelie bin mountains, just as we had fridge mountains when the WEEE thing came in a few years ago.
16. shouldn`t the film be called .....`Free Wheelie`...(walks off to sound of own footseps)
17. The council could go back to the old aluminium bins!..they look great when there new, but over time they get dirty and grubby and can be just unsightly as the wheelie bins. The wheelie bins were brought in just before the 1990s because waste has increased over the past 50 years and bin men were starting to struggle to move and lift the bins onto the back of lorries, a lot of the time it took two men just to lift one bin because people put in garden waste in them like soil, rocks and building materials. They were brought in to make it easier to move and lift, but if they are abolished, they will probably be replaced by something just as unsightly!.