Emsquared
Tomorrow is bin day and I have no idea which bins to put out. The council online calender is batsh** crazy (the grey bin isn't even shown) and seems to suggest *all* bins go out tomorrow which is all I can do and see which ones are collected and over time extrapolate (good word probably Innapropriately used) which week is which. For now it is bin anarchy.
#Glasgow #BinAnarchy
Jan 9 at 10:21amWeb
Show threadrivetsJan 9
@emsquared surely you just wait and see what others have done?
Show threadEmsquaredJan 9
@rivets Please Dawkins no. That way madness lies.
Show threadLionelBJan 9

@emsquared

They like to keep life exciting.

Show threadEmsquaredJan 9
@lionelb They do. Winging it. It's the future.
Show threadIan K TindaleJan 9
@emsquared ours should have been today but is tomorrow just for today (having been Monday instead of Friday the past couple of weeks previously to this week). We’ve only got two bins, the green normal one for actual rubbish (tends to only have one maybe two tied-up bags for the week) and the recycling one with the orange lid, which apparently actually does get recycled at the big recycling plant in Beckton.
Show threadEmsquaredJan 9
@u0421793 Wow. I dream of only 2 bins. We have 5. One general waste (confusingly green) monthly , two recycling bins, one is paper and cardboard(blue) and the other tins and accepted plastics (grey) fortnightly but not the same week, a purple glass bin (8 weeks apart) and one brown bin (food and garden waste). Fortnightly, which is free for food but 50 quid a year for garden waste.
Show threadIan K TindaleJan 9
@emsquared that, is taking the piss
Show threadEmsquaredJan 9
@u0421793 That's something that Glasgow council are sadly very good at.
Show threadIan K TindaleJan 9
@emsquared I went from, in the early 2000s, quite naturally assuming everything that gets put into the recycling gets atomically dismantled into piles of raw elemental atoms, to by about the mid 2010s assuming it just gets landfilled like everything else. It turns out that our recycling plant here in Beckton (at Jenkins Lane) is quite sophisticated and intriguingly capable. I should look into it a bit more, the team picking stuff up seem very motivated and knowledgeable about the whole process of recycling. In fact yes, I need to know more about what they do.
Show threadEmsquaredJan 9
@u0421793 Sounds like nania from where I'm sitting.
Show threadDave SmegJan 9
@emsquared @u0421793
Damn that's difficult for my old brain to follow.
Hope it manages when the council here change to a 3 week cycle.
Show threadEmsquaredJan 9
@daveSmeg @u0421793 curiously my neighbour has put our bins out and made the decision for me. Ours are now the only bins out so far so wait to see if we are a) playing mind games and confidence beats accuracy - OK I'm not involved except by proxy b) we (the royal we) are wrong in bin choices c) some neighbours may disagree re bin choices and put other colours out d) the council collapses because even they have no idea e) our lack of snow changes overnight and and the bin men give up anyway
Show threadIan K TindaleJan 9
@emsquared @daveSmeg it’s as simple as that
Show threadDave SmegJan 9
@u0421793
Ah yes, as easy as working out the quantum entanglement of adding the blue to the number 9.
Show threadSteven Lawson PhotographyJan 9
@emsquared We always follow our neighbour across the road but when they go on holiday it's absolute bedlam! 🫣😂
Show threadEmsquaredJan 9
@StevenLawsonPhotography It's going to be the deaf leading the blind here. I await the effects of natural selection.