Monster Munch reminded me of something....
In an effort to 'trim the fat' an edict was handed down to the cleaners that bin bags were not to be binned. They were to be emptied into the skips, washed and reused until they can no longer be used.

It's a weird one. And they say the NHS doesn't know how to make savings...
(Schumann makes awesome quiches., Tue 28 Feb 2012, 11:32, 3 replies)

WTF?
So someone has completely failed to realise that the manpower cost of cleaning the bags will be vastly more than the cost of new ones?
Or is it the case where the manpower and consumables budgeting are completely separate and this process actually appears to be a real saving at local level?
Big organisations, left hand, right hand etc.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 12:31, closed)

It must have been an interesting meeting with the union
because as far as I can make out the higher-ups rewrote the cleaner's contracts to include washing used binbags without any real consultation.

Who knows. All i know is that the cleaners in my offices lift our bags up out of the bins and wash them before returning them.
(Schumann makes awesome quiches., Tue 28 Feb 2012, 12:39, closed)

I'm guessing that
when the cleaners are instructed to empty, wash and reuse the bin bags, what they actually do is empty and reuse the bin bags.

Human nature and all that.
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 13:01, closed)