Poubelle-gate (part 2)

The storm in a dustbin a couple of weeks ago about whose bins are whose was nothing compared with the misuse of the poubelles for "domestic waste".
As you know we have no poubelles here so we use neighbouring bins depending on where we are going, normally in Laguepie (neighbouring commune). But we have noticed that the bins are being used for all kinds of non-domestic rubbish. Last week it was plaster board. We saw a professional gardener piling bags of garden rubbish into a waste bin. Even council employees in a commune lorry popping stuff they had collected into a bin. Yesterday a computer monitor left by a bin when all electrical goods can be taken for recycling at the dechetterie.
The worst offenders seem to be people doing home building or maintenance who just dump their stuff by the bins hoping someone from the council will pick it up. The binmen wont do it as their contract is only to empty the bins, so it is an extra charge to us.
And the triage for what is recycling and what is not seems to be commonly ignored, which means extra cost to the communes and hence for us.

Monitor dumped by an open poubelle yesterday

When there is a very good recycling centre (dechetterie) just a few kilometres away in Lexos (which is commonly used properly even by people from other departments) there is no excuse for simple fly tipping of things by the bins.
Check what should go in the yellow topped bins, what in the black bins (bagged where possible) and take the rest, including garden waste and bottles for recycling at the appropriate place.
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