According to that organ of reliability (if not relaity sic), the DMail, Edinburghers are now surrounded by debris, presumably of haggis pelts and tattie skins. Nobody we know, I’m sure.
Embran excess?
According to that organ of reliability (if not relaity sic), the DMail, Edinburghers are now surrounded by debris, presumably of haggis pelts and tattie skins. Nobody we know, I’m sure.
Boadicea's Chariot 
I seem to recall a certain resident of this area writing on these pages that he had a plethora of multicolour bins for different types of waste!
Was it all a dream?
It must be caused by visitors, surely the Scots throw nothing away. The lady with the pink legs appears to be taking some home.
Och, Janus.
It just depends which paper you read on which day.
The Daily Mail of today does include three Embran photos all taken within 15 yards of each other on George IV Bridge which was within the area closed off for the Hogmanay street party. I note, however, that they have no comments from disgusted Embran residents.and, driving through the city today, I saw no evidence to support their story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256050/Rubbish-mountains-grow-Britain-areas-havent-refuse-collected-THREE-WEEKS.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Presenting a different opinion, the Daily Mail of yesterday told us that Council workers had already cleared 75,000 tonnes of rubbish from the street party starting at 3 am on the morning of Ne’erday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255752/Hardy-revellers-dive-2013-dip-ice-cold-waters-Edinburghs-Forth-river.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Household rubbish collections were only suspended on the four days of public holiday and extra collections were made for the affected areas. We may not be good at trams but there’s not a lot wrong with our scaffies, in my opinion.
Soutie, I fear that it may have been a dream. We have a relatively simple system in my area. Communal bins in the street for household waste, food waste, paper recycling and plastic recycling. Three bottle banks near at hand. All communal bins emptied at least once a week. Garden waste (individual brown bins) once a fortnight.
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Bin collection appear to be suspended all over the UK, pretty disgusting really. Here we had a polite little card saying it would be on the day whether or not it was a Bank Holiday and would we be kind enough to put it all out, recycling included, the night before as they were starting at 4am so the workers could get off early.
Not a piece of garbage anywhere out of place.
But then we have a private service, as does everybody, with a private company for a princely $30.00/month.
They take pretty most everything.
About time in the UK garbage was removed from the rates the whole thing is totally shambolic.
Wednesday is my collection day and yes, they were here Boxing Day and Jan 2nd! (normally between 6am – 8am)
Talking about simplicity, we separate nothing, the lot goes into black plastic bags (provided by the municipality.) Our household averages perhaps 2 bags a week, I should know ’cause it’s me that carries them out on Tuesday nights!
Autism Eastern Cape started a paper recycling initiative last year, so, to be fair, I must admit to separating most of our paper and cardboard.
Who put the A’s in sepArate? No matter how hard I try I continually type an E and then go and have to adjust the ‘red squiggly lined’ error. Can I write to Oxford and ask for an amendment, it looks and sounds much better with a E 🙂
Soutie, g’dag! It’s all the Romans fault (as usual) – ‘separare’, to…..er….separate. 🙂
JM, I suppose I was astounded by the ‘sex’, so well known in Embra.
Good evening, Janus..
They only use sex for their coal in the Embran suburb of Morningside as you probably know full well.
Update on the Embran rubbish scandal. I went by George IV Bridge at 7.30 am this morning on my way into work at 7 am this morning and the whole street was spotless*.
Except for the white bags shown in the Daily Mail expose. All the black bags and cardboard boxes were gone, presumably removed by the Council scaffies in an expeditious and efficient fashion in the course of January 2nd which is, as I wrote before, a public holiday in Caledonia (stern and wild).
The white bags? They are the property of Shanks Waste Management, a private company who must have the contract for some of the business premises on GIVB. So much for the private sector always giving better service! They had removed them at some point in the day when I checked on my way home.
* For those of you who are not familiar with Embra, George IV Bridge does look far more like a street than a bridge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_Bridge