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TitleUrgent bin collection issue
AuthorGeedubya0
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Anyone got any advice for an urgent issue we have with our weekly bin collection?

My building contains 24 flats. All of these flats share a communal garbage chute that falls into a bin room accessible from the lane at the side of the building.

Our factor changed the lock to the bin room 3 weeks ago and I have made sure that the City Council Cleansing Western Depot know the new code for the door. I left messages, but they never answer or confirm, so I went down and handed in a note with the code to try and avoid a missed bin collection.

So, that’s been 2 weeks with no collection and the bin area is overflowing. It’s so full that the garbage is overflowing back up the chute and this will have to be unblocked by our factor (which we will have to pay for). The bin area itself is almost full of bin bags now and soon there will be no room for us even to carry down our bin bags.

I called them on Monday to report that they’d missed last Friday’s collection. After leaving messages and calling back several times I eventually got someone who said they would arrange a resource to collect the overflowing rubbish. I was not convinced by this persons tone to be honest and they didn’t do that - today we’re in the position that we have 2 week’s worth of rubbish stacked up. I’ve called many times today, have left messages but still no response from them.

So this is affecting 24 flats in my building, we can’t use our refuse chutes and soon there won’t even be any space in the main bin room for us to carry down our bin bags. And when they eventually clear the rubbish we will have to pay to get the chute unblocked. But nothing will get done over the weekend anyway so it’ll be a shitshow on Monday.

There’s nothing on the Glasgow council website so tonight I’ve emailed the 4 councillors for my area.

I’m thinking of going down personally to their base to try and catch them at 08:00, but that’s probably just my frustration and probably won’t do any good.

Any ideas anyone?
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CreatedFri 6th Aug 2021 9:21pm
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