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EnviroStasi: Council Refuses To Empty Bin Due To Apple “Contamination”
Daily Mail
Thursday, August 20, 2009
An amateur gardener was stunned when council workers refused to empty his wheelie bin because it contained bruised apples fallen from his trees.
John Mason, 64, had cleared dozens of windfall apples and put them in his garden waste bin for recycling.
But when he went to bring his bin back inside, it was still full – with a sticker on top saying the bin was ‘contaminated’.
Council officials ruled that apples are counted as kitchen waste instead of garden waste despite falling from trees in his garden.
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Mr Mason, a retired businessman, yesterday blasted the jobsworths as ‘bureaucratic idiots’.
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‘I put the apples in my garden waste bin in complete innocence and put it out for the council to collect.
‘I scratched my head and wondered what on earth the contamination could be at first. Then they clarified it and said it was the apples.’
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