Beware, do not buy Aldi Organic Compost.

I am fortunate enough to have been trained in Risk Assessment both in H&S and Environmental, the one thing that my Trainers kept reiterating, was to apply Common Sense.

Something society seems to have forgotten sadly.

The products that you have purchased are clearly ' not fit for purpose' , more importantly they pose a significant risk to both your health and a risk to the environment. I would be asking Aldi to remove immediately, stick to your guns, keep at them.

I like the store, (except the way they treat the plants they sell), I feel confident you will get positive results, they are after all becoming one of the most popular places to shop, and will not fancy bad publicity (don't forget, you can go to your local paper if needed )

I wish you the very best luck in getting the results that you want and deserve.

 

A few years ago I worked in the finance department of a local authority (in London).
One December, my boss asked me to hang up the Xmas decorations. So I went to the maintenance room to get a step ladder. The chap there said I couldn't have the step ladder because I wasn't qualified to use it under Health & Safety!
Never heard of anything more rediculous!

So what did I do?
Went back to my office, and climbed up on some of the desks and hung the decorations balancing on the furniture.

 

That's dangerous! It's much safer to climb on the filing cabinets (as H&S requires them to be securely fixed to walls on the floor).

 

That said, and again I jest not, when I was at the company I mentioned in a previous post, a filing cabinet did somehow manage to actually fall out of a top floor window. Luckily nobody was hurt. The HSE came out about that, and they made the recommendation that filing cabinets should not be near the windows, and nothing of any size was to be kept on the window sills.

 

Yup,
I needed to be certified to use a step ladder

Try telling that to my Mrs next time she asks me to change a light bulb

 

Just double checking ... was H&S invented when you took the vows? If invented, was it incorporated?

"I promise to love, honour and cherish, notwithstanding H&S, loyally, royally and unequivocally, 'til death do us part ... "????? If not ... you are Scot Free (Contract!)

 

H&S would not allow that for a second. The only way out is death? No way. Perhaps your modified vows should read something like:

"I promise to love, with the correct equipment, honour and cherish, notwithstanding H&S, loyally, royally and unequivocally, 'til either the necessary exit training has been completed and enacted, and/or a hazardous fault has been identified that demands the immediate discontinuation of the operation and immediate withdrawal from the situation ... "

 

Define "correct"?
(Subjective, huh )

I'll get me coat ...

 

I was thinking correctly fitted protective workwear complying with the necessary British Standards, that is within its use by date and has been stored as per specification.

 

The person I saw pulling out filing cabinet draws to use as steps to get on top of the cabinets also needed to be certified.

 

Just had a phone call from Aldi customer service. Upshot is that after they have made "enquiries" with their supplier of the recycled garden waste that Aldi choose to call organic compost, they are telling me it was an isolated case...bal..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am getting a letter with their findings on the matter. They are sending me vouchers as compensation and I have already told them that I will be buying another couple of bags of their "rubbish" with the vouchers. I will bet my life I find at the very least bits of plastic bag. I am NOT letting this go as I feel that Jo public are being conned. I had hoped for a better outcome and get some sort of admittance from Aldi that they cannot guarantee the recycled garden waste to be organic. I'm tempted to buy another bag and open it in the store in front of customers and Aldi staff. Do you think I'd get arrested?! Knowing my luck there will be nothing untoward in the bag but I'm prepared to end up with egg on my face. Shiney I will send the value of the vouchers to your cause.