Come round ours on Tuesday and drove past mine and most others and only emptied a couple in the street......... lazy dirty crust munchers.

Black bin emptied today, (after 3 weeks) Brown bin and paper sack still on the front waiting.

Got my brown one emptied just before week before Xmas. Didn't empty my black one once cos lid wasn't flat, out of order, think it was cos someone else had stuffed summat in mine while walking past as well.

Does anyone know what the binmen have been doing for the last fortnight whilst not emptying dustbins? Do they just sit around the depot drinking tea or are they given other jobs to do?

Ah, but that would be demarkation Barty - more than their Jobsworth!!

Plus H&S would never let un-trained staff out with a snow shovel - just think of the potential hazards......and compo claims!!!

At least if ordinary members of the public slip and injure themselves, they can just claim [iForce majeure[/i!!!

I live on a private road which is on a hill and we got ours emptied. Not on he right day but a couple of days later when they got around to our street. Wigan MBC don't you just love them and the private companies that they employ to do these jobs. It's the same with gritting the main roads. When you got out of the Wigan gritting area the roads were clearer.

Makes you wonder how these fanny's would have coped in the good old days when the bin man came in to the back yard and humped the bin full of ashes over his shoulder , emptied it and then brought your bin back in again .

I seem to recall the bin men would rather hack their own leg off at this time of year before miss out on the xmas drinks off the locals .

bloody bone idle these binmen our black bin men came yesterday first time for four weeks no sign of them paper men or brown bin but no worries cos as from now all papers .plastic .bottles and cans will go directly into the black bin and then some other bugger can recycle my rubbish I.m not paying £110 a month for service like that

bloody bone idle these binmen our black bin men came yesterday first time for four weeks no sign of them paper men or brown bin but no worries cos as from now all papers .plastic .bottles and cans will go directly into the black bin and then some other bugger can recycle my rubbish I.m not paying £110 a month for service like that

I remember when I lived in Leigh and the bin man knocked on the door asking for christmas cheer. This was a couple of weeks after they refused to put a bag that was at the side of the bin onto the truck. This was after the bins had not been emptied for three weeks. You can imagine what I said to him. Just after this the rule about the bin lid came in.