Missing recycling collections?

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Permalink Reply by Omotn on December 23, 2009 at 11:02

According to the website "For residents who normally receive a refuse and/or recycling collection on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, a normal service will be maintained over the Christmas and New Year period." . I can cope with the notion of receiving a delivery, but receiving a collection is trickier. Has the refuse process gone into reverse?

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on December 23, 2009 at 13:57

Ah, the continuing reluctance to use little words like 'get' and 'give'. Maybe it goes back to the time when short blunt Anglo Saxon words were for the serfs. While the educated classes used Latin and French.

And 2009 was the thirtieth anniversary of the Plain English Campaign. Sigh . . .

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Permalink Reply by John D on December 23, 2009 at 14:57

Sounds like Martin Amis' "Time's Arrow " where the bin men deliver garbage which we process in ways we needn't go into here and then take back to the supermarket where they give us money. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Omotn on December 23, 2009 at 15:22

Online primary access to the currently transparent information rich catalogue resource Talisprism tends to suggest the ongoing availability of the singularly existant reproduction of the aforementioned work in Muswell Hill Library. Notwithstanding other urgent and important festive commitments and bearing in mind the ongoing (but obviously per pro climate change, temporary) footpath challenges in the safety domain, I plan to nip up there and borrow it.

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