Having digested many newspaper reports and internet postings and watched much TV footage, Brigg Blog concludes the bin collection service received over the Christmas and New Year period, despite the awful weather, has been well up to the mark.
True, our family - like many others in Brigg - has been forced to drive to the bottle and can bank once, and (yesterday) take a few bags of general rubbish over to the waste site at Wressle.
On various issues, North Lincolnshire Council often comes in for flak (some of it from Brigg Blog), but the powers-that-be have thought much more about serving the public (eg collecting on a bank holiday) than many others in similar authorities across the UK. The bin crews - hardly among top earners on the council payroll - have done their level best in trying circumstances. With most Brigg households paying a grand-plus, and some a lot more, to North Lincolnshire Council, we have a right to expect them to deliver a decent standard of service. And, in terms of refuse collection, it's bin good.
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Don't forget, Nige, refuse collections are often contracted out by councils.
NLC has two contractor - one to collect household, another to recycle organic waste.
The Council organises routes and collecion dates, but is not actually involved in the physical aspect of bin emptying.
Similarly, while the household recylcling centres, ie Broughton, Melton Ross, Scunthorpe, will carry the NLC logo (as it their site) the operators will be contractors.
If anyone is that interested - check the names on the side of the bin-wagons.
I think it was last year (2010) when NLC appointed ?new contractors (there has to be a bidding process every so many years).
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