Respect our views
HOW can the decision over bin collections have been taken so quickly? It is only some six days since the closure of the council facility for us to comment on which council services should be saved and which should be reduced or closed.
Did the council ever have any respect for our views? Have all the decisions been made prior to public consultation? How much did consultation cost?
In my area, Sheffield 10 near Sheffield Hallam University Collegiate campus, black bins are collected every week for general waste while blue boxes and bins (recyclable waste) are collected every two weeks.
Meanwhile, people in flats are second class citizens. They have more to put in their black bin as it has to contain their plastic waste. Also while householders have a blue bin and blue box, this is not so for flat holders. They share a blue bin for glass and cans between two flats and share a blue bin for paper and cardboard.
In future, people in flats will not only have to keep their general waste for two weeks but also two weeks’ plastic waste will also have to be contained in the black bins.
Why are flats treated so? No consideration is given to the size of a family in the flat. How can the green bag collection be withdrawn causing all garden waste to be collected in the black bin or burnt?
Chris Sterry, S10
We have one blue bin for nine tenants so where will the refuse go after the first week of use? Do we dump it in the street or do they send someone to pick it up? If so that defeats the object of fortnightly collections. We already have fly tipping, so let’s see how much more we have after the change. Street Force had to come out on the week ending of Jan 14 to clear a gennel of rubbish. The week before they came to clear some spare ground of black sacks full of household waste. Think again before this city is one great big garbage dump.
Norfolk Park resident
how much do green bins cost and what will happen to them? People will put garden rubbish in black bins or fly-tip it. Also will the council collect the green bins or pay us rent for keeping them on our property? Or will they just be dumped, turning this green and pleasant land into a green bin and not so pleasant land?
Sue Woolhouse, Handsworth
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Sir Taxedalot
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 01:34 PM#3 The council have to save money because Labour's spendaholics are in the Cameron Rehab Clinic now. Just as soon as Comrade Dore gets free of the restraints she'll be putting up your council tax not reducing it. She'll spend the money on more staff to carry on not doing all the the things you rightly point out they fail to do now.
conradpoons
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 08:24 AMDerek Hutchinson, while not wanting to stand up for anyone at the council, do you actually know what your council tax pays for? Plus how much of it actually goes to pay for your bin collections?
Derek.Hutchinson
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 06:32 AMOne should be asking the question, Are tax payers going to get a rebate on their council tax bill as the services are cut...So far, the only services that private house holders get for their money is the bin collection, If the council are making cuts to save money then surely they are still charging the same for services that they are not providing..If the incompetent council collected unpaid rents and council tax then there would be no reason to make cuts as the amount of money outstanding would more than cover the costs....10.5 million in unpaid rent, 2.6 million in unpaid Council tax, 200,000 in unpaid parking tickets....Sheffield council are attempting to save £2.6m by cutting services yet are prepared to lose tens of millions in unpaid rent etc...
pellin
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 03:49 PMRotherham council say they will not go back to weekly bin service but are keeping there green bin service sheffield is not plus you can put paper and thin cardboard in there green bin in Rotherham
conradpoons
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 09:37 AMIf you do a little research, flats will retain a weekly collection only normal households will go to fortnightly. Try looking on the internet before you start spouting!
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