brilliant video,absolutely gobsmacked that even as far back as 1972 when I was 11,they were able to recycle so much of the scrap in what appears a very efficient and clean way-brilliant stuff who dug this video up
Amos Keeto I did just that. All I need is on catch up, USA TV (in UK) and TH-cam. I still get letters “will you be at home on X date. They never come. Perhaps because the last time they did visit they got a polite ear full.
When I was a kid in the 1970s there lived a rough family on the main road. I went to school with one of the sons. The old man was a bin man doing our estate. When his lorry turned onto the main road he would trot into his house and eat a cooked breakfast his missus had done for him. She was a big old bruiser and took over his job of emptying the bins until he'd had his meal then they'd swap again with the lorry at the opposite end of the road. It was just accepted. I think back with incredulity to some of the things that went on.
You should film that shit and Tweet the council - it's scandalous that the worker is referred to as a 'binman' instead of them employing a culturally diverse trans Muslim lesbian other-kin. I'm shocked.
@@mrbadger9920 I think she was the one out of the pair of them that'd probably have the predeliction for a bit of the old domestic abuse. She was definitely the boss out of that pair. You definitely wouldn't want a well aimed and intentioned back hander off her, that's for sure. She'd knock you into next week judging by the way she'd haul those galvanised bins.
And here in the qeer old corrupt uk if u never gave the binmen a Xmas box of a few shillings wen they knocked on ur door for it .they tipped your bin on your garden.and would leave ur bin not being emptied..oh the good old days here in the old qeer corrupt uk..U could post a letter first class before 10 am in the morning and it would be delivered later in the same day answer in the old qeer corrupt uk..NOW U POST A LETTER FIRST CLASS AT £1. A STAMP AND YOU MIGHT GET THE LETTER A WEEK LATER IF THE CUNTS AT ROYAL MAIL OR AKA ROYAL FAIL.DONT LOSE IT..BASTATRDS
Yeah, the old metal bins full of ash from the fire lol, bet the bin men weren’t swinging them bins onto my heir shoulders lol… with the arse hanging out it and all the contents all over the road. Them days were more simpler to most who say so because most of us were kids with no responsibilities ✌️… but yes, those were the days!!! Most of us used the phone at the end of the street cos not everyone had house phones. Changed days indeed, and it don’t look like things are gonna get better anytime soon.
Yup - if we didn’t use plastic packaging, the quantity of waste we produce would be dramatically reduced. Cardboard and glass are easily sorted and recycled. Plastic waste is so much more complicated to deal with.
Yup - UK population has only gone up by 15M in 50 years. A lot of course, but comparable with most other countries. Not exclusively due to inward migration and plastic waste really isn’t only caused by new arrivals. I mean, wow 😮. Going to hide now coz I’m pretty certain that the reply will be frothing and as unsubstantiated as the last comment.
@@Pikestnt also back then if you went to the shop and got a bottle of pop you paid a penny extra, which you got back when you returned the bottle. The bottles were taken back to the factory by the empty delivery vans, washed and refilled.
insanitybiker Yup. I’m just old enough to remember getting money back on lemonade bottles. Germany has a similar scheme for all plastic and glass bottles. You carry your bottles to an automated recycling bin placed at your local supermarket. The bottles are counted and a voucher is printed for a few Euros which is redeemable in store. Naturally, kids use it for pocket money (as we used to) and the result is almost all plastic or glass bottles are recycled. There is debate about how the plastic is “recycled”. Sadly a lot is incinerated which just re-makes the argument for glass bottles
For 1972 this was pretty advanced and modern ! - here in 2022 some 50 years later I am sure they still do the same thing with all the unwanted rubbish but on a larger scale !
The car scrapyard was George Cohen in Willesden, gone now I should think. It was massive 8 acre site and in the early seventies they'd pay about £3 for a scrap car. They drained the fluids, removed the wheels and dropped the rest into the shredder which was actually a kind of hammer mill that smashed a car into small pieces.
A lot was, but a lot was not. I think we have more corruption and greed now but also a growing amount of people willing to show empathy and understanding towards others which is the way to go.
@@steven-vn9ui yea sort of I think, freedom of speech has become subjective, with all the troubles in the world all we can do is bring London to a standstill over climate. Priorities have shifted as to not offend anyone
steven I actually think corruption and greed is that same, but due to the internet and having more sources of information we are much better informed, so it appears like it’s worse but it’s just a case of we know more about it. Problem with the internet however is that all of us have more information readily available then at any other time in human history and with this comes the opportunity for people to mis-inform themselves, spread dis-information etc etc
What a brilliant little film. Thanks for uploading... as a kid in north wales i remember the days that the binman used to come into the garden to collect the bin and then leave you a new bag , we only ever needed one a week them days ! Remember my day giving them a pound note to chuck a sofa in there 😂.. nowadays on the Wirral not only do you have to put your designated bin on the side of the road you also have to make sure its the right way round. Not joking! They wont collect if the handles are pointing the wrong way round 😮
thats the diffrence between now and back then. look how thay talk back then about motorways, like there a thing of wounder, people used to visit the motorway services and have there photo take standing outside it, everything was a surlution of brillance, nothing was a negative, there was a positive perception about how things were dealt with and the super market consumer life was a thing to be celebrated. now the motorways are blocked no matter how big thay make them, plasitc is the poison of the earth, the rubbish problem is becoming the same of mountains, polution and swerage are an ever increasing poison, back then all these things was all an asaw to are problems. now all these ansaws are the problems. lol
Imagine being bothered about the quality of your bin men. As long as they do their job then why care how they do their job. Also, i don’t think having them ruin their health would be a measurement for how proper binmen they are 🤦🏻♂️
Looks like scenes from a James Bond film. Following that bin truck to a site in North London. Never seen the surrounding area to try to find exactly where, very James Bond like. Seeing that control room to tell where the drivers should go, looks like a room from a hidden base. Seeing the shifty scenes where my waste is going and being handled.
Classic motors now, the VW van on the ground 😢. Also the leyland van , Proper dustbin men collecting, here are some sweets for Xmas that was what a lot of people did when I was a kid for the dustman.
Do you think that the tea chest that gets smashed up has "STV" written on it is an in-joke? This was a time of quite a lot of rivalry between the Independent TV franchises. Had Cowcaddens just failed to take up an option on Bless This House, perhaps?
Imagine working in that crane with the grabbing arm, that guy must have been inhaling dangerous levels of methane and other nasty gases/particles. I wonder if they had explosions too.
I used to give my bin men a Christmas tip, right up until this year! I was having some decorating done, they didn’t empty my bin but put a sticker on saying “building waste” sorry love, but decorating isn’t the same as building and that £20 you were looking forward too for Christmas , well that evaporated when I had to unlock ad my wheelie bin, load up the back of my mini and drive to the tip.
Not the fault of the guys dong their jobs. It's an order from above so blame the right people, not the guys simply doing an already hard job. I say guys because you'll never get a woman to do that sort of job. Their to busy sitting down drinking their wine.
My old man's a dustman he wears a dustmans hat,he wears cor blimey trousers and lives in a council flat...BOOM BOOM 💥💥 be careful what you wish for folks I used to dance round in circles as a kid to that song........guess what I ENDED up doing ?......true.🎸🎶🎶🎶
@@keithrose6931 What do you want to say with that last sentence? As if they are supposed to come into your backyard to sort out your mess? Are you so lazy that you can’t even put your trash out next to the road?
I don’t know about mine old landfills, I know of landfills in Kent that were gravel pits fifty years ago, now filled with waste and have houses built on them.
Not now but in the future. If someone figures out a way to economically recycle plastic, they know where to find a virtually unlimited supply! As a friend of mine once said, today's landfills are nothing more than giant storage pits.
For years I've dumped used engine oil in my mother's and now my wife's bin, covered it with grass or leaves and away it goes. Very satisfying experience.
I just watched an Old Owald Mosley video from when he was 79. First time I've ever listened to him. He said the British public were asleep and maybe they would wake up...... Scary 🧐
I cant imagine his health would have been that good! To be suspended above a large pit holding thousands of tonnes of rotting waste, bacteria rising, and he's there operating the crane above it all day without a mask or anything breathing apparatus to clean the air!
Sounds pretty decent, burning waste to create steam and electricity cleaning the waste gas and recycling the metal. Thesedays it all ends up in the sea off Thailand or on the Turkish border doesn't it?
Fascinating. I love these old programs to get a glimpse into the UK during the past. Honestly things aren’t that different from Philadelphia where I grew up. Seems like things were so much simpler back then when I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s
Just about the time of this programme, at 16, I got a holiday job on the bins in Winchester. I was a naive posh boy but the blokes were great to me (as long as you pulled your weight!) and it was the beginning of my realisation that education, qualifications and position are not indicators of intelligence or human value - rather the opposite in my opinion, judging by the quality (lack of) of those who run the world!. I really enjoyed that summer and going back to school seemed such a waste of time that I was gone within weeks, to follow my own erratic path in life.
Might I ask why you, a self-described "naive posh boy," elected on a summer job as a binman? Most middle-class kids, then and now, would (wrongly) think such a job well beneath their station in life.
Is it, that is bad.I remember in the 60's and 70's when my parents and all the neighbours used to tip the binmen and postman, my father always gave them a couple bottles each of his very, very strong home brew bitter.They all loved it and always congratulated him on his brew making.
@@TCM-dw3pz yeah i remember those days well , ,most people in the UK tipped the bin men, postman, milk man ,to say thanks for all your hard work over the year and in all weather's too, it's a bloody shame that you can't do it today it doesn't seem right, it's also the fear these days of losing their jobs just for a few beers at the end of the year , , i still got a galvanised dustbin tucked away in the garden for memories instead of the bloody PLASTIC WHEELIE BINS in all colours , the good days have passed , and not for the better, . I also remember the fire engine going up to the tip site putting out the fires that had ignited through the hot ashes been thrown out in the dustbin, lol, , i don't think it would happen today because the bins would melt, , 👍
We had a bin for ashes from our coal fire, when full it was bloody heavy, the binman would come down the passage, round the back of the house, and hump it up on his back no bother, briing it back empty and shut the gate on his way out. Proper tough job back then.
Average wheelie bin now is 10-15KG. empty... I'd hump bins on my back no bother if they weighed 20-30kg there were less bins and less waste back then. we grab 2 bins at a time and they usually weight 50-100kg each... often they weigh 100-150kg... the 1100+ltr bins sometimes weigh 450-500kg.... Proper easy job back then... You want to know how I know? because not one of these fellas are fit enough to last a single day on my run.... I can see!!!!!!!!!
So simple back then Now we have a HUGE bin lorry , loads of flashing lights , beeping noises , high visibility jackets , health and safety training , garden full of different coloured wheelie bins
InfiniteMushroom Now the NGO’s are making your women yet. You just can’t compete with a BBC creampie. Your forefathers boasted that that dun shall never set in the British empire well, the sun is as hot as ever because Britain’s got a hue. What goes around comes around.....
They mostly used to get lobbed onto the corrugated asbestos roofs of council garages where I lived thereby not only imparting vital gynocological and physiological information but also teaching us curious young boys to take exercise and risks. Safe spaces? Pah!
Veritas Vincit...You are my HERO for today. In the garbage tomorrow, to be sure, but my hero for today. My granddad always said, you could look at life as a pawn shop or a porn shop, & i know where i want to be standing: with my Gran, both of us in retrieved raincoats.
@Honest John Perks of the job as they say, I remember a mate of mine from the early 80's that used to do a paper round, he nicked a couple of mags called, Man & woman, more of a sex guide than anything, lol to be honest back then it was almost impossible to get anything hardcore, cheers
Lovely years....l remember them well. In those days the binman would take your bin right up to your back door, and close the drive gate.....today they leave them blocking pavements, and they end up sometimes in the road. I recall wearing those ultra baggy trousers, with thick crepe soled shoes, and penny round shirts. I can remember going on a coach trip in the early 60s as a kid: and having a packet of crisps with a little bag of salt inside....which you opened, and sprinkled over the crisps. Clothes seemed better in those days......today a lot, irrespective of brand, is made overseas..and it shows in the quality. No food banks, no beggars, no cannabis wafting out of cars, no dingys arriving on beaches. Politicians seemed more up to the job, and they owned combs and used them. City centres were heaving with people, and it was a novelty to see an empty shop. Today when l have visited various city centres: there always seems to be scruffs having an argument in the street, and shouting and swearing. There seems to be more people today on sickness benefits, because they have a gambling or drink or drug problem.....wheras decades ago you had to be at deaths door before they let you claim that. Today the financially incompetent politicians place thousands of able people on these benefits, then import third world migrants. Britain most certainly......is not what it was.
I'm a binman here in northern Ireland not a shame of it and proud to be a binman
Fair play to you,, never be ashamed of what you do my man.
So you should be. Good, honest work.
Bloody hard work mate. Fair play
What day do you work?play golf the other 6🤣
Got excellent friendly bin men where I live.
And the van was a British Leyland J4 if anybody's interested
Thanks
I salute you level of knowledge!!!
@@fasthracing it's not that we used to have one as a camper when I was a kid
When Britain was great
Just thankful that was in 1972. Be highly upsetting if they did that to a J4 or any vehicle that era if it was today. (still sometimes happens)
brilliant video,absolutely gobsmacked that even as far back as 1972 when I was 11,they were able to recycle so much of the scrap in what appears a very efficient and clean way-brilliant stuff who dug this video up
I no longer own a TV, but I wish there were factual programmes like this made today.
What, you threw your TV in the dump like i did? Wonder why?
Similar are still researched and produced. Wish you had a television set now.
I don`t want to pay the tv licence either. I`m looking to get rid of my TV soon and no more BBC. YIPEEEE!!!!!
Amos Keeto I did just that. All I need is on catch up, USA TV (in UK) and TH-cam. I still get letters “will you be at home on X date. They never come. Perhaps because the last time they did visit they got a polite ear full.
David Lowe yeh I'm with you on that one mate lol
When I was a kid I wanted to be a dustman, I thought they only worked on a Thursday morning
Same🤣🤣🤣
Why do they always come thursday mornings ? 🤔
@@martinbitter4162 Cos that was the day they came to our house when I was a kid
@@stevemason5348 I assumed that. Same here when I was a kid, same still today despite being in a different city. It seems to be Thursday thing ;)
I thought they only did my street then went home 😂
When I was a kid in the 1970s there lived a rough family on the main road.
I went to school with one of the sons.
The old man was a bin man doing our estate.
When his lorry turned onto the main road he would trot into his house and eat a cooked breakfast his missus had done for him.
She was a big old bruiser and took over his job of emptying the bins until he'd had his meal then they'd swap again with the lorry at the opposite end of the road.
It was just accepted.
I think back with incredulity to some of the things that went on.
Veritas Vincit plus we were more free then! Unlike the shit we live in now sadly 😉
You should film that shit and Tweet the council - it's scandalous that the worker is referred to as a 'binman' instead of them employing a culturally diverse trans Muslim lesbian other-kin. I'm shocked.
She was probably told to do it or she would get a couple of slaps.
The good ol' days aye? Aye?
@@mrbadger9920 I think she was the one out of the pair of them that'd probably have the predeliction for a bit of the old domestic abuse.
She was definitely the boss out of that pair.
You definitely wouldn't want a well aimed and intentioned back hander off her, that's for sure. She'd knock you into next week judging by the way she'd haul those galvanised bins.
Veritas Vincit Bet you knocked one out over her though?
You don’t see tea chests these day. Great for packing when moving house.
And cutting your fingers on the sharp metal edges.
And to make an improvised bass for skiffle groups.
Assam or Darjeeling?? Perhaps a touch of Earl Gray?! 🙂
I miss the sound of those old metal bins in the early morning. So evocative of our old world.
To true Jenny and back then they took everything thing unlike today
@@dennisshaw9285 Yes!
And here in the qeer old corrupt uk if u never gave the binmen a Xmas box of a few shillings wen they knocked on ur door for it .they tipped your bin on your garden.and would leave ur bin not being emptied..oh the good old days here in the old qeer corrupt uk..U could post a letter first class before 10 am in the morning and it would be delivered later in the same day answer in the old qeer corrupt uk..NOW U POST A LETTER FIRST CLASS AT £1. A STAMP AND YOU MIGHT GET THE LETTER A WEEK LATER IF THE CUNTS AT ROYAL MAIL OR AKA ROYAL FAIL.DONT LOSE IT..BASTATRDS
Yeah, the old metal bins full of ash from the fire lol, bet the bin men weren’t swinging them bins onto my heir shoulders lol… with the arse hanging out it and all the contents all over the road. Them days were more simpler to most who say so because most of us were kids with no responsibilities ✌️… but yes, those were the days!!! Most of us used the phone at the end of the street cos not everyone had house phones. Changed days indeed, and it don’t look like things are gonna get better anytime soon.
@@dennisshaw9285 yeah they took it and threw it into a big hole that, now is probably a field we’re all eating from.
The most obvious thing here is that we produced much less waste.
Today it’s down to packaging being the reason there is so much waste.
Yup - if we didn’t use plastic packaging, the quantity of waste we produce would be dramatically reduced. Cardboard and glass are easily sorted and recycled. Plastic waste is so much more complicated to deal with.
Yup - UK population has only gone up by 15M in 50 years. A lot of course, but comparable with most other countries. Not exclusively due to inward migration and plastic waste really isn’t only caused by new arrivals. I mean, wow 😮. Going to hide now coz I’m pretty certain that the reply will be frothing and as unsubstantiated as the last comment.
@@Pikestnt also back then if you went to the shop and got a bottle of pop you paid a penny extra, which you got back when you returned the bottle. The bottles were taken back to the factory by the empty delivery vans, washed and refilled.
insanitybiker Yup. I’m just old enough to remember getting money back on lemonade bottles. Germany has a similar scheme for all plastic and glass bottles. You carry your bottles to an automated recycling bin placed at your local supermarket. The bottles are counted and a voucher is printed for a few Euros which is redeemable in store. Naturally, kids use it for pocket money (as we used to) and the result is almost all plastic or glass bottles are recycled. There is debate about how the plastic is “recycled”. Sadly a lot is incinerated which just re-makes the argument for glass bottles
Not just packaging people have more money than they did then
Cars seen as junk then might be highly collectible now!
Anyone catch a view of that cream coloured, small rear-windowed, VW van/camper?? Worth an absolute fortune today!!
@@barkchip1872 Shame isn’t it!
For 1972 this was pretty advanced and modern ! - here in 2022 some 50 years later I am sure they still do the same thing with all the unwanted rubbish but on a larger scale !
The car scrapyard was George Cohen in Willesden, gone now I should think. It was massive 8 acre site and in the early seventies they'd pay about £3 for a scrap car. They drained the fluids, removed the wheels and dropped the rest into the shredder which was actually a kind of hammer mill that smashed a car into small pieces.
george cohen part of 600 group had scrap yards all over the uk .back in the 60s i worked for them at the middlesbrough depot
It's still there..under a different name
The reporter and chaired monologue is absolutely fantastic.😉
Ikr! They just don't make em' like that anymore
Split screen VW campervan at 8:16, worth its weight in gold today.
9:02 very brief glimpse of metallic blue E-Type Jag on the pile as well.
Well spotted fellow retro car guys.
It's amazing just how old some cars were when they got scrapped, that red van for example was only 8 years old.
Westfalia. Prob an SO34 or SO23. I had a beauty. Sold it back to VW. Now takes pride of place in their oldtimer museum.
I saw the beige cream splitty as well and cried 😥
Everything seemed better back then
A lot was, but a lot was not. I think we have more corruption and greed now but also a growing amount of people willing to show empathy and understanding towards others which is the way to go.
@@steven-vn9ui yea sort of I think, freedom of speech has become subjective, with all the troubles in the world all we can do is bring London to a standstill over climate. Priorities have shifted as to not offend anyone
steven I actually think corruption and greed is that same, but due to the internet and having more sources of information we are much better informed, so it appears like it’s worse but it’s just a case of we know more about it.
Problem with the internet however is that all of us have more information readily available then at any other time in human history and with this comes the opportunity for people to mis-inform themselves, spread dis-information etc etc
@@matt4239 that is a very good point actually Matt. I see what you mean
@@bonkeydollocks1879 yes, agreed there buddy.
This has the feel of a Monte Python movie.
In them days a lot of rubbish as it was called then, waste now, would be chucked on the fire at home, most of the bins contained ashes.
Derek Hart our ashes for the fire when in the driveway. 😂
Yes a lot of ashes - there were a lot of open fires in the houses where I lived in the 1970's
Used to say on bin lids ‘no hot ashes.’.
Aye i remember this nothing went into our bin that could be burnt to heat the house
The cost of getting rid of that level of waste was ash/tranomical
What a brilliant little film. Thanks for uploading... as a kid in north wales i remember the days that the binman used to come into the garden to collect the bin and then leave you a new bag , we only ever needed one a week them days ! Remember my day giving them a pound note to chuck a sofa in there 😂.. nowadays on the Wirral not only do you have to put your designated bin on the side of the road you also have to make sure its the right way round. Not joking! They wont collect if the handles are pointing the wrong way round 😮
The narrator sitting in that chair was just like a Monty Python sketch.. The rest was just rubbish....
And now for something completely different.
richards9407 😂😂😂
Monty Python 😡that rubbish
Sounded like some stuck up condescending twat from the the middle classes.
No way! Just saw a vw type 1 on the pile! 😧
Worth a lot now...the t1s
Type 2: Type 1 was the Beetle.
I saw two. I'm sure I saw a jaguar xk120 in there too
Xk120 I think at 9:01
haha yer i saw that, painful to see, it would be worth 10,000 now even in scrap condition. tragic
Every thing seemed so simple back then he makes it sound like we need holes filling up with rubbish 😢😴🚛
thats the diffrence between now and back then. look how thay talk back then about motorways, like there a thing of wounder, people used to visit the motorway services and have there photo take standing outside it, everything was a surlution of brillance, nothing was a negative, there was a positive perception about how things were dealt with and the super market consumer life was a thing to be celebrated. now the motorways are blocked no matter how big thay make them, plasitc is the poison of the earth, the rubbish problem is becoming the same of mountains, polution and swerage are an ever increasing poison, back then all these things was all an asaw to are problems. now all these ansaws are the problems. lol
@@stevegreen9460 Things have gone backwards a lot
So we created one, we named it London.
@@stevegreen9460 What the actual shitting fuck are you on about? "Asaw"? "Ansaw"? Did you go to school?
No different coloured wheelie bins back then!
cambs 01
yeah!!.... Or people
thats right i went there be-at-ches
Cant say coloured youll get life with this cunting government
After the claw grabs the delivery van, you can spot a VW Type 2 Bus in the pile 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😭😭😭😭😭😭
When this country had proper bin men.
When this country had proper everything
Whats wrong with todays bin men?
Imagine being bothered about the quality of your bin men. As long as they do their job then why care how they do their job. Also, i don’t think having them ruin their health would be a measurement for how proper binmen they are 🤦🏻♂️
During the 80s I can remember seeing aluminium pots and pans hanging off the bin lorries for the bin men to weigh in. 🇬🇧
Can't even take scrap metal now days we make a mint on scrap metal and Hoover's etc
Looks like scenes from a James Bond film. Following that bin truck to a site in North London. Never seen the surrounding area to try to find exactly where, very James Bond like. Seeing that control room to tell where the drivers should go, looks like a room from a hidden base. Seeing the shifty scenes where my waste is going and being handled.
Probably been demolished and turned into a ' development opportunity' ?
It’s in Edmonton near the river lee. Still there today.
@@Bradonomous ahhh, that's close to me. I'm in Ealing. I think I should go and take a look.
Ist schon interessant so etwas Altes zu sehen auch wenn es Aus England stammt danke dafür!
Martin Puhl I agree. Very interesting indeed 👍🏻
Is the complex still there?
Can't get over how openly camp the presenter was for the era this was made.
Deliberate ITV in-joke at 01:14?
Classic motors now, the VW van on the ground 😢. Also the leyland van ,
Proper dustbin men collecting, here are some sweets for Xmas that was what a lot of people did when I was a kid for the dustman.
What a beautiful little van. Can anyone tell me what model that was.
YIKES @ 8:09: VW T1 with ultra-rare roof hatch!
Back in the day when they actually worked for their money
Is this very impressive refuse site for its time ,still operating in north London.
It looked quite new & state of the art back then!
Brilliant video. Thank you for sharing. Well done.
Do you think that the tea chest that gets smashed up has "STV" written on it is an in-joke? This was a time of quite a lot of rivalry between the Independent TV franchises. Had Cowcaddens just failed to take up an option on Bless This House, perhaps?
Good old days..when you had one bin and dustmen took whatever rubbish was put out.
Imagine working in that crane with the grabbing arm, that guy must have been inhaling dangerous levels of methane and other nasty gases/particles. I wonder if they had explosions too.
He got banned from the local amusement arcade!
I used to give my bin men a Christmas tip, right up until this year! I was having some decorating done, they didn’t empty my bin but put a sticker on saying “building waste” sorry love, but decorating isn’t the same as building and that £20 you were looking forward too for Christmas , well that evaporated when I had to unlock ad my wheelie bin, load up the back of my mini and drive to the tip.
Well done. I hope you bought yourself a £20 bottle of wine and thought of them as you drank it!
Next time hide it properly. A friend of mine disposed of a chest freezer over a few weeks in a dustbin.
Not the fault of the guys dong their jobs. It's an order from above so blame the right people, not the guys simply doing an already hard job. I say guys because you'll never get a woman to do that sort of job. Their to busy sitting down drinking their wine.
@@rogerbarton497 Haha, I did the same with an old shed base a few years ago!
good how much the recycling has improved over the years 2021
It's shipped of to Indonesia. Where its later set on fire. Very efficient... Not!
Some people are suggesting it's just another con.
Recycling before the word was trendy .
We probley did more recycling then as we do now
Very true. When i was a kid i can remember gettjng 10p back from a local supermarket for a glass bottle or jar
Garbage into the furnace?
Wonder where they got that idea?
How do we go through so much rubbish????
I remember helping our binmen chucking the bins and bags into the dust cart lol I was about aged 10, HS would bust a colon if that happened today 🙈
If only we could put extinct rebellion in those pits job fucking done
My old man's a dustman he wears a dustmans hat,he wears cor blimey trousers and lives in a council flat...BOOM BOOM 💥💥
be careful what you wish for folks I used to dance round in circles as a kid to that song........guess what I ENDED up doing ?......true.🎸🎶🎶🎶
This is cool!
I’m a dustman(refuses worker)...how times have changed...most of our rubbish is recycled now....👍
Most of the work is done by the people your suppose to collect from . I remember when they came into your back garden to collect rubbish !
@@keithrose6931 What do you want to say with that last sentence? As if they are supposed to come into your backyard to sort out your mess? Are you so lazy that you can’t even put your trash out next to the road?
Can you imagine it happening like this today 🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely fantastic when England was England and everything round like a well oiled machine unlock the messages today
8:36 Getting Brave little toaster flashbacks.
Excellent recycling habits! No wonder it's becoming commercially viable to mine old landfills.
I don’t know about mine old landfills, I know of landfills in Kent that were gravel pits fifty years ago, now filled with waste and have houses built on them.
Not now but in the future. If someone figures out a way to economically recycle plastic, they know where to find a virtually unlimited supply! As a friend of mine once said, today's landfills are nothing more than giant storage pits.
looking at those old cranes in the scrap yard i think
thank goodness we have terex fuchs 350mhl material handlers now
For years I've dumped used engine oil in my mother's and now my wife's bin, covered it with grass or leaves and away it goes.
Very satisfying experience.
Is that code for something else?
I fill it into the can and bring it back where i bought the new one.
fasthracing 😂😂😂
That's terrible. Is it really so hard to take it to the local dump? 😠
Innuendo? Reading between the lines...each to is own I suppose...
Ahhhh that tea chest being crushed at 1:15 is most satisfying.
I feel bad for the crane driver breathing all that in.
Thank god there is a fast forward button on TH-cam. That chap couldn’t talk slower if he tried. I’m wondering if this was a schools programme??
interesting, & I officially declare have no life by watching this
I just watched an Old Owald Mosley video from when he was 79. First time I've ever listened to him. He said the British public were asleep and maybe they would wake up...... Scary 🧐
@@VCanisMajorisY Mosley was right. The British public are still asleep and need to wake up.
Not at all, it's no different to watching TV nowadays, both rubbish!
@@georgeyoung9166
I think they were all far more awake than they are now, sadly.
This was in Edmonton
That claws a bit better than the one in amusement arcades
That reminds me. I have to put the bin out ;)
Poor old J4 van.
Somewhere someone would have restoted that if it was still about.
Imagine that grab operators bedroom it will be full of Teddy bears
I cant imagine his health would have been that good! To be suspended above a large pit holding thousands of tonnes of rotting waste, bacteria rising, and he's there operating the crane above it all day without a mask or anything breathing apparatus to clean the air!
My old man’s a dustman
Is that a vw camper in the back ground?
This presenter was typical of the day. A pompous prat
I've noticed straight away the change in the rubbish, then mostly biodegradable now everything plastic shite .
Look at those blokes picking up bins and all types of rubbish without winging. No gloves, bin on shoulder. No ‘f’s given. Proper not lazy bin men.
Some people may not understand how interesting garbage trucks can be i used to be one of those people
i remember as a kid we used to help them in the street in the 70s
I USED TO HELP THE ROAD DIGGERS,USED TO RUN TOTHE SHOP FOR THEM.
7:22 a BMC J4,😢
Just think they shut down this power plant that produced electricity and hot water, from burning waste. It was the Angel Works at Edmonton.
It's funny what you end up watching at 03:00am, when you suffer from insomnia...
Proper bin men
No breakers yards to get car parts anymore.Leave a plastic bag out nowdays and it gets ripped open and all the rubbish left.
Thankyou
Sounds pretty decent, burning waste to create steam and electricity cleaning the waste gas and recycling the metal.
Thesedays it all ends up in the sea off Thailand or on the Turkish border doesn't it?
Not a plastic bottle to be seen anywhere!
The day's you could get away with almost anything and life was so much simpler
Steel goes off to Birmingham British Leyland
Only to return back faster than you could say rust spot...
Less plastic back then
Love a bit of refuse!!
No plastic shit back then hardly
Rip splitty that van is worth like 80k now
Binmen binmen
bin bin bin men men men !
The good ol’ 70’s! When Rubbish was real Rubbish, & the Binny would even take away the aborted foetus, left by the side of the road!
Well one feotus survived by the look of it..
what a 'posh' voice he has lol
That's Picketts Lock in Edmonton
Fascinating. I love these old programs to get a glimpse into the UK during the past. Honestly things aren’t that different from Philadelphia where I grew up. Seems like things were so much simpler back then when I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s
It’s been a while since your post Chris, so I hope you are not dead, I quite agree, much simpler.
Just about the time of this programme, at 16, I got a holiday job on the bins in Winchester. I was a naive posh boy but the blokes were great to me (as long as you pulled your weight!) and it was the beginning of my realisation that education, qualifications and position are not indicators of intelligence or human value - rather the opposite in my opinion, judging by the quality (lack of) of those who run the world!. I really enjoyed that summer and going back to school seemed such a waste of time that I was gone within weeks, to follow my own erratic path in life.
Might I ask why you, a self-described "naive posh boy," elected on a summer job as a binman? Most middle-class kids, then and now, would (wrongly) think such a job well beneath their station in life.
and the binmen rode on the back of the lorry.they even expected a tip at xmas..i loved my childhood in the 60,s /70,s
Yep I remember them well, the best part of my life. The only time of my life I felt secure and safe, not these days, thank god I am on my way out now.
Our binmen will get an Xmas tip when they stop leaving the bin down the street.
No tips for the bin men these days, it's instant dismissal if caught taking tips from a customer , ,Bloody sad really ,.,.,.
Is it, that is bad.I remember in the 60's and 70's when my parents and all the neighbours used to tip the binmen and postman, my father always gave them a couple bottles each of his very, very strong home brew bitter.They all loved it and always congratulated him on his brew making.
@@TCM-dw3pz yeah i remember those days well , ,most people in the UK tipped the bin men, postman, milk man ,to say thanks for all your hard work over the year and in all weather's too, it's a bloody shame that you can't do it today it doesn't seem right, it's also the fear these days of losing their jobs just for a few beers at the end of the year , , i still got a galvanised dustbin tucked away in the garden for memories instead of the bloody PLASTIC WHEELIE BINS in all colours , the good days have passed , and not for the better, .
I also remember the fire engine going up to the tip site putting out the fires that had ignited through the hot ashes been thrown out in the dustbin, lol, , i don't think it would happen today because the bins would melt, , 👍
We had a bin for ashes from our coal fire, when full it was bloody heavy, the binman would come down the passage, round the back of the house, and hump it up on his back no bother, briing it back empty and shut the gate on his way out. Proper tough job back then.
Average wheelie bin now is 10-15KG. empty...
I'd hump bins on my back no bother if they weighed 20-30kg
there were less bins and less waste back then.
we grab 2 bins at a time and they usually weight 50-100kg each... often they weigh 100-150kg...
the 1100+ltr bins sometimes weigh 450-500kg....
Proper easy job back then...
You want to know how I know?
because not one of these fellas are fit enough to last a single day on my run....
I can see!!!!!!!!!
So simple back then
Now we have a HUGE bin lorry , loads of flashing lights , beeping noises , high visibility jackets , health and safety training , garden full of different coloured wheelie bins
True😂
Yeah and they refuse to take anything left next to the bin the cowards
@@maverick9767 why cowards?
@@gazonatrike7005 pussys better?
the flashing lights and high vis are so buffoons like you won't hit them!
My old mans a dustman those were the days sadly this countrys FUKKED
Did her wear a dust mans hat and Gorblimey trousers by any chance?
@@fasthracing yeah and he lived in a council flat
Thought he might @@lesliegreenhoff1348
InfiniteMushroom
Now the NGO’s are making your women yet. You just can’t compete with a BBC creampie.
Your forefathers boasted that that dun shall never set in the British empire well, the sun is as hot as ever because Britain’s got a hue.
What goes around comes around.....
@InfiniteMushroom poe?
Probably lots of dumped porn magazines would have been “recycled” before ending up in the furnace.
They mostly used to get lobbed onto the corrugated asbestos roofs of council garages where I lived thereby not only imparting vital gynocological and physiological information but also teaching us curious young boys to take exercise and risks.
Safe spaces? Pah!
Veritas Vincit...You are my HERO for today. In the garbage tomorrow, to be sure, but my hero for today. My granddad always said, you could look at life as a pawn shop or a porn shop, & i know where i want to be standing: with my Gran, both of us in retrieved raincoats.
Veritas Vincit Most were found in the bushes over the park!
Was 'Razzle' about back then lol
@Honest John Perks of the job as they say, I remember a mate of mine from the early 80's that used to do a paper round, he nicked a couple of mags called, Man & woman, more of a sex guide than anything, lol to be honest back then it was almost impossible to get anything hardcore, cheers
Good to see documentaries like this are being recycled.
Lovely years....l remember them well. In those days the binman would take your bin right up to your back door, and close the drive gate.....today they leave them blocking pavements, and they end up sometimes in the road. I recall wearing those ultra baggy trousers, with thick crepe soled shoes, and penny round shirts. I can remember going on a coach trip in the early 60s as a kid: and having a packet of crisps with a little bag of salt inside....which you opened, and sprinkled over the crisps. Clothes seemed better in those days......today a lot, irrespective of brand, is made overseas..and it shows in the quality. No food banks, no beggars, no cannabis wafting out of cars, no dingys arriving on beaches. Politicians seemed more up to the job, and they owned combs and used them. City centres were heaving with people, and it was a novelty to see an empty shop. Today when l have visited various city centres: there always seems to be scruffs having an argument in the street, and shouting and swearing. There seems to be more people today on sickness benefits, because they have a gambling or drink or drug problem.....wheras decades ago you had to be at deaths door before they let you claim that. Today the financially incompetent politicians place thousands of able people on these benefits, then import third world migrants. Britain most certainly......is not what it was.
Don't emigrate to Australia. We're on the same train.
Keep looking for Regan to pop up on the screen to rouse the owner for information on a BLAG
That was my thought, Oi you’re nicked son. Put ya trousers on.
We’re the sweeney son, and we haven’t had any dinner!
The traffic controller!😉 this is a wonderful snapshot in time.