Help us to recycle
I’m fully in favour of fortnightly bin collections and am sure most people could cope if the doorstep recycling system was easier.
In Doncaster our friends put all their recyclables in one box and the operatives sort it into different containers on the lorry.
We can only put out plastic bottles and if it happens to be the wrong sort none are taken, so lots of people throw everything in the black bins.
The co-mingling system does not work. Paper with broken glass mixed with it ends up on the tip.
We need to make the whole recycling system more user friendly: if you have an old Land Rover, and try to save on fuel by using a trailer to cut down on journeys to the tip, you need a permit, and can only go 12 times in the year.
Veolia will have a penalty clause for changing the contract which the council will have to pay.
There will be even more fly-tipping, which the council have to clean up, at extra cost, which council tax payers have to fund.
Peter F Butler, Stannington
I LIVE alone and rarely have a full bin, but I do go away a lot in the summer.
If I miss a fortnightly collection, the smell of rotting food in warm weather will make my garden and the neighbourhood intolerable.
My neighbour has five children and her bin is always full to bursting. She can, of course, use my bin at times, but this is not an ideal solution for everyone who may not have such an option. What will be done for such families?
My area is popular with students, whose homes are multi-occupancy and whose bins are usually full every week. What will be done for these properties?
We were told that we would be given a choice of going back to blue wheelie bins for paper and cardboard, instead of the heavy boxes. This should have happened last summer, but every time I ask, I’m told it has been put off.
The service is extremely poor. We seem to pay more and more council tax and get less and less for it, which is why I strongly object to any reduction in the current service.
Irene Davy, Crookes
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dromedary
Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 01:15 PMI'm sorry to say that although I did recycle and was in favour of it I now don't bother and put it all in the same bin. . . . . I don't see why my efforts should be used by Veolia to make a profit without me also being paid.. . . . Post 9 also makes a valid reason not to.
cakelady
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 01:46 PMPost 9, I fully agree with you. It is the duty of the council to provide basic services in return for our taxes. Weekly refuse collection, schools, childrens and elderly services, libraries and road maintainance and lighting to name but a few. Our councillors and civil servants, like many others, seem to think that they are there to rule not serve. They are more concerned with the lastest "trend", looking after foreign scroungers, green issues and the latest politically correct issues. Our taxes are being wasted on ludicrous issues like £400,000 to inform householders of changes to bin collections. The problem is that councillors, MPs and civil servants are all from the same mould. KIds who have been to school, univeristy and straigt into a political party or union. No experience of work or running a business. They are totally out of their depth when negoiating contracts etc. It is time they were reminded that they are there to SERVE NOT RULE.
Topodp
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 02:09 AMHang on surely the whole point of this is that we are (were) paying for a weekly bin collection. If SCC want to reduce the service, we as council tax payers should receive a council tax refund. If your energy supplier stated that they were changing their terms and conditions in their favour you would change supplier. We are paying the price of SCC's disastrous foray into the world of private service suppliers, it is not our fault that the numpty's in the council can't read a contract and understand it, how ever we have to pick up the tab.
Butterfly7
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 10:16 PMNo Bytor, vegetarians don't, but presumably vegetarians do buy vegetables and if you have no garden ergo don't need compost, presumably peelings do go in the bin!.......P.S. Chickens are not animals if you want to be pedantic!.................To someone more sensible, totally agree Serendipity - they just cherry pick the bits of plastic that are obviously more lucrative to them, and as for the green bins being discontinued, that's just plain ridiculous for a so-called recycling City!
Bytor
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 05:53 PMGee Butterfly7, sorry if I've upset you but I still maintain there is something wrong in a household that throws food away, but if it is necessary you seem to have the perfect solution by putting it in an airtight bag. You do "guess" right by the way ,,,, vegetarians don't buy dead animals ....
serendipity
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 05:12 PMThey should allow all types of plastic in the blue bins, not just bottles without the tops. I'm sure a lot of people put plastic trays, pots etc. in the black bins instead of taking them to their nearest re-cycling site, which will soon fill them up. They should also continue the free collection of garden waste, as this will also end up in black bins. The council have had more than enough money to provide a decent service, but have chosen to squander it on politically correct projects.
conradpoons
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 01:10 PM'are' should of course be area, but then again read it in a Bristolian accent and it still works
conradpoons
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 01:09 PMOh no it's the apocalypse (again), Why is everyone panic ridden? Every other are around us have had fortnightly collections for years and it's not full of waste, rats or terrible smells in summer. This change means you're going to have to think about what you do with your waste, stop living in the past.
Butterfly7
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 11:55 AMSo Bytor, I guess you never buy a whole chicken, or chicken legs, or a pork leg joint? We're on low fat diets so any meat that comes with fat on are trimmed of the fat before cooking, we don't eat chicken skin or the bones etc. etc. so yes, lots of people have "food" waste that goes in the bin, albeit we at least do put it in bags before it goes in the bin. Not every one can afford skinned chicken fillets!.....So I think Irene has a good point as there's nothing smells worse in a bin than rotting meat!
seenitall
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 09:48 AMI wonder what will happen to all the half-full green bins full of rotting and decomposing vegetation. Will they be collected? I have asked the Council and no one seems in a hurry to give me an answer. Our Council and its Officers seem to be in a sorry mess over the whole issue of rubbish collection....Perhaps they have been inspired by the topic!
Bytor
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 09:44 AMAssess why you're throwing food away Irene . This is wrong on so many levels
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