My Dustmen Do Sundays
As I left this morning, a Hackney Council truck was outside with its flashers blinking. It had wire sides and seemed to be collecting junk like old sofas and other furniture bought years ago in places like MFI. The driver turned up after a few minutes and I asked him if he’d mind taking an old wooden shelf that I’d left outside my house, hoping someone would steal. But the shelf was obviously too poor to even half-hinch for firewood! But the driver said “No problem, Guv” and chucked it on the truck.
So what happeneded to the renowned jobsworths, who wouldn’t take anything unless you obeyed a set of rules that weren’t published?
The Anonymous Widower 
Those jobsworths are probably the same people, but now being triple time for workig Sunday. But good on the council, it means people such as yourself who cant easily get things to the tip have a safe, responsible free way of disposing of large unwanted items, it almost certainly reduces fly tipping, and it is a great improvement on some councils who are now charging people for using the tips!
Comment by liz | July 10, 2011 |
He was working alone for Street Cleaning and was only around for a few minutes and I think it was a special pick-up as they had a party in the square yesterday.
Hackney though is an unusual borough for London in that they have a lot of green space and where I live there are quite wide pavements. So perhaps Sunday is a good day to get the dumped rubbish off the streets. Especially, as where I live there is generally few cars parked on the streets, so they can park the small truck easily.
If that is the system, it sounds very sensible to me.
Comment by AnonW | July 10, 2011 |