article_snippet.sent: Rubbish teams refused to empty a recycling bin because a recycling bin had an empty crisp packet on a recycling bin lid.
article_snippet.sent: Binmen said the bag of Walkers prawn cocktail crisps fell foul of the rules – even though Binmen had been dropped there by a litterbug.
article_snippet.sent: Elsewhere they left bin full of rubbish because there was a scrap of cellophane on top.
article_snippet.sent: The binmen in Farnham, Surrey, said the bag of Walkers prawn cocktail crisps fell foul of the rules – even though the rules had been dropped there by a litterbug and not by the owner of bin (file image)
article_snippet.sent: I live opposite a shop and some kind person, not wanting to litter the area, put a shop and some kind person crisp packet in the top of my recycling bin, and for that I have to be penalised. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Smith, said Mr Smith had been left with a wheelie bin full of rotting waste after the collection team refused to empty a wheelie bin full of rotting waste because Mr Smith saw a piece of cellophane paper.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Smith ruled the cellophane was not recyclable and broke the rules, but Mr Smith said 'Why not take that little bit off and take the rest? '
article_snippet.sent: But resident Teresa Johnstone responded 'We live in England - will they bother to pick up rain-sodden boxes which have disintegrated when they can't even lift a crisp packet from the bin in the first place?
highlights_snippet.sent: Binmen refused to empty bin because Binmen had empty crisp packet on lid .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Binmen also left bin full because there was a scrap of cellophane on top .
  