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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Didn't you have a dustbin lorry in your toy car collection?? My cousin did-it used to fascinate me-it was red and green and you could slide the side panels open-and push your sweet wrappers in! I think Heanor probably led the way in recycling-in probably early 60's newspapers were not put in the dustbin-the binmen collected them sparately and put them in the cab of their lorry-bin men used to get paid a bonus for sorting out the paper and getting it ready to be sold.(They also got paid extra for putting up the stalls on Heanor market)The bin man used to fetch your dustbin from the shed at the bottom of the garden , hoist it on their back and take it to the lorry to be emptied-must have been really heavy work-The bins were mainly full of ash-all the potato peelings and food waste used to be put in the "pig bin"-these were dustbins which seemed to be placed at the end of every street, which were filled with waste for pig swill-I never saw these being emptied-wonder who was responsible for that job?I recall taking potato peelings to put in there -and using the bin as cricket stumps-but never questioned who empitied them or where they went???[/quote]
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Heanor's Dustbin Lorries - Ash Carts
replied on: 12/29/2004 11:35:55 PM

Didn't you have a dustbin lorry in your toy car collection?? My cousin did-it used to fascinate me-it was red and green and you could slide the side panels open-and push your sweet wrappers in!
I think Heanor probably led the way in recycling-in probably early 60's newspapers were not put in the dustbin-the binmen collected them sparately and put them in the cab of their lorry-bin men used to get paid a bonus for sorting out the paper and getting it ready to be sold.(They also got paid extra for putting up the stalls on Heanor market)The bin man used to fetch your dustbin from the shed at the bottom of the garden , hoist it on their back and take it to the lorry to be emptied-must have been really heavy work-The bins were mainly full of ash-all the potato peelings and food waste used to be put in the "pig bin"-these were dustbins which seemed to be placed at the end of every street, which were filled with waste for pig swill-I never saw these being emptied-wonder who was responsible for that job?I recall taking potato peelings to put in there -and using the bin as cricket stumps-but never questioned who empitied them or where they went???

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