From Reginald Brown
Bracknell Forest Borough Council has been collecting my wheelie bin with a
one-man robot arm dustcart for the past two years. It can easily reach past
parked cars and undoubtedly speeds up refuse collection.
It is, however, very noisy and regularly wakes me up at 7.15 am on Wednesday
mornings when it is two streets away, despite double glazing. The noise comes
from the hydraulic arm mechanism, the sound of dense rubbish being tipped into
the back of the vehicle and repeated acceleration and deceleration of the
vehicle between bins.
Ascot, Berkshire
