Thursday, January 14, 2010

Cause And Effect


On Tuesday I was telling you about the rubbish piling up in the streets of Edinburgh as the bins got fuller and fuller. I'm not the only one pointing this out - Kezia Dugdale has some photos of her bins too.

Then on Tuesday afternoon as I was walking home from work I noticed the bin lorry in the street, bags of trash being thrown into the back of it. 'At last!' I thought.

Well, actually, no. The binmen did indeed take away all the bags which were littering the street. But they left the full bins alone!

Maybe actually emptying the bins which were causing the rubbish that they were clearing was a step too far for them. Maybe some management bod at the city council hasn't quite put two and two together on this one.

Whatever the reason the actual bins weren't emptied, the rubbish bags have started piling up again.

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