All too much for ‘yellow bin woman’
A FORMER shop worker got so sick of baffling bin collections that she started paying a private firm to sort out her rubbish.
Elaine Moir, from Grangemouth, was sent over the edge by the hassle of dealing with five bins on top of caring for her husband, Alex, who has dementia.
She explained: “Looking after Alex is a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week job.
“Sorting out my rubbish became a massive drain. I’d turn around and my husband would have put a plastic bottle in the non-recyclable bin, for example.
“Explaining to him the nuances of our council’s recycling system became too much.
“I reached the end of my tether.”
The 53-year-old looked online and discovered a private company called Waste Concern, based in England, would empty her bins if she paid them.
She said: “I bought a bin for £60 and pay them £15 every month to empty the bin once. I put anything in it and they sort it.
“I’ve learned I’m far from alone.
“I’ve become famous in my community as the yellow bin woman and people are always coming up to me to say they feel exactly the same way.
“A lot of those folk are vulnerable and elderly.”
Spencer Feldham, 43, who set up Waste Concern, said: “People are fed up and you sense councils are too.”