Safety and health
Has anyone in the council thought how the proposed fortnightly collection of black bins may concern the hundreds of people who share their bins? I think the answer is no.
I live in a block of nine flats. A few years ago, when we lost our individual bins, we accepted the larger black wheelie bins, which are emptied weekly.
They get full every week and share three blue bins, all of which are in a small bin room, inside our block of flats. Although we do our best to keep them clean, especially in the summer months, sometimes the smell is pretty bad – and some poor soul lives alongside the bin room.
If the bins are emptied fortnightly this would be like putting 18 households’ waste in the same three bins and the waste would be overflowing every fortnight, or the bins too heavy to move for the poor bin men.
Our estate has a concession where bins are still collected by bin men, who sometimes have to negotiate steps.
I understand the council’s point of view over costs and savings, but what cost is put on public health and workers’ safety?
Our council should think long and hard before making any rash decisions over our bin collection.
R Swain, Longley Hall Road
Our collection day is Monday, so when we get two Bank Holiday Mondays together we will be without a collection for a month.
I pay for 52 collections a year, so can I have a reduction in my council tax if I only have 26 collections?
Maybe if all the rent and council tax arrears were collected, perhaps we could have weekly collections.
Rodger Welburn, S 20
axing weekly bin collections and saving the council more £2 million a year should be more than enough to supplement free tea and biscuits at council meetings.
EB Warris, Raeburn Place, S14
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LS Sheffield
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 01:09 AM@Bytor He is putting rubbish in his bins..that's what bins are for. I would like to see the councillors involved in this ill conceived scheme placed into bins as they too are rubbish! Everyday we take a step closer to the third world country that we are soon to become. One of the worlds great nations and we cannot even manage to empty our bins weekly we would rather spend the money on outreach workers involved in the care of one legged Ethiopian freedom fighters that have by means of a reckless life style become infected with HIV and who now seek refuge in the CITY OF SANCTUARY. I can think of a lot of pointless schemes run by Sheffield Council I could trim back before I get to the bin men! Lets not forget the 40 families that have lost their bread winner just so some eco-warrior councillor can foist recycling upon the masses
waywoodwind
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 12:18 PMThe country & city is in a financial mess from years of quango spending from Labour ,,,,,, they have never thought of the quagmire & demise of Britain just spent all the ££££s they could get their corrupt hands on ,,,,,, all our services are in dire straits ready to collapse including the employment NHS road education & homes ,,,,,, we have a parliament that would rather give our countries health & wealth to any foreigner for the asking ,,,,,, example £50 million to the Burngreave project plus Liz Bashforth £331k
Bytor
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 11:52 AMWhat on earth are you putting in your bins that "makes them smell pretty bad" ? . Might be an idea to find out what it is and make other plans........
Mike.
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 02:31 PMRoger Welburn S20 - You will still have all of your rubbish collected, so you are not actually losing out on anything. It's just it will be every fortnight instead of every week. Also, the idea is to save money from refuse collection to spend it somewhere else where the money is needed. probably something like care for the elderly or disabled, keeping a library open, filling a pot hole etc. Stop whinging!
Old Man of the Sea
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11:15 AM"axing weekly bin collections and saving the council more £2 million a year should be more than enough to supplement free tea and biscuits at council meetings."......................... I'm not so sure about that. Have you seen the size of some councillors? They must get through a lot of biscuits.
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