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In Edinburgh the law was that you could only put your rubbish out on the street after 11 pm the night before it was to be collected (usually about 6 am the next morning, so too early to bung out as you left for work). Never knew anybody prosecuted for not observing that law though. Even in the nice, middle class parts of town, people would commonly put beds and couches out to sit for weeks on the pavement.
Then the District Council stuck big skips with lids on every street. Bingo! After six months they did a survey and found that 90 something percent of the population were thrilled to bits with this sensible system. It was great.
So I moved to London and found that, although we have smart rubbish skips with lockable lids downstairs from our flat, people just pile their bin bags up beside the skips anyway. Neither wonder they say you're never more than six feet from a rat here. |
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