Fed up Van Riebeeck Park neighbours write:
The majority of residents are accustomed to putting out their household and garden refuse in black or green plastic bags and then into the wheelie bins. That is how it now should be.
Residents also had to become accustomed to the “informal pickers” (as the Americans seemingly call such people), who routinely go through the contents of the wheelie bins, looking for recyclable items.
Recycling is all good and well, and commendable, and many households actually separate their recycling items from garden and other household rubbish.
What has, certainly in recent times, become annoying is the “pickers” who have now taken to emptying the contents of the plastic bags into the wheelie bin without the bags – they are taking the bags.
This means that the inside of the bin becomes soiled.
We are sure several other residents in and around parts of Van Riebeeck Park (and probably elsewhere) have become irritated by this practice, which means we have to waste water by regularly washing out the bins. We’re supposed to be trying to cut down water consumption.
Facetiously, one has to “admire” the pickers who then have the cheek to loudly complain to residents about getting dirty and the stench they encounter when rooting through your bin, not realising that the four or five pickers who have been there before them are to blame.
