At a guess and it only is a guess the cardboard willneed to be placed standing up *inside* your blue box.And you've also "littered" the pavement by the looks of things.Because from the evidence of that photo, to be bluntthere's no real evidence that it was you who leftit there in the first place. That photo could justas well have been posted by someone else as showinga pile of cardboard which somebody else had leftbeside their box on collection day.In other boroughs stuff needs to be placed *on top*of the collection box. Michael Adams, I am glad your not a Jury in a very import case, lets face it, your looking at a photo and accusing me of the things list above in you post. Take another look, is the cardboard on the pavement?Are there any recycling boxes around, Is my rubbish bin about in the photo.Now for as long as the recycling scheme has been going if I broke up a cardboard box downsized it bit and securely taped it to together so it can be pick up in one piece, it would be taken with the rest of the recycling no problem.apparently over the last couple of months I have notice other neighbors have put out cardboard that doesn't fit in the Blue Box and it hasn't been taken.So like a good little resident I place my Wheelie Bin on the pavement and place the Recycling boxes beside that with the food waste bin beside the Recycling boxes.Now while I cut up two very large boxes and securely taped the pieces altogether, I didn't quite make them small enough to fit inside my Blue Box, so I neatly placed the two bundles of cardboard you see in the photo, next to the Blue box.So now, I have all my rubbish all neatly placed where it should be ready for collection.So after the rubbish collection has been completed I arrive home to find the my nice neat cardboard bundles haven't been picked up. But before I investigate that we (as in Neighbors) have to start waling around the estate looking for your wheelie bin and boxes as they are never put back from where they were taken from.But back to the photo, I removed the two bundles of cardboard and move them to the rear of my property, where I lent them up against a piece of iron railing to take the reference photo, as the photo was only meant to show the size of the bundles cardboard that wasn't taken, it wasn't meant to show where they were placed for collection.So Michael Adams as large bits of cardboard have been picked up for years I obviously wrongly assumed that the two small bundles would have been.I think I know why there is a switch in the way the collection has been modified.The old crews use to get to the side of the wagon, and had to bend what large bit of cardboard they had into a smaller size to fit the hole in the side of the wagon. The new crews don't pick up anything that wont fit in the hole in the side of wagon, hence why my cardboard wasn't collect or-though it would have fitted.Well my Friend if you got this far down the post, you deserve a medal, Good Evening to You
Bernard Allen ● 1773d