| Topic: | Re: Council Recycling & Waste Collections | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 26/11/14 11:00:00 |
| "I can only state again that when I walk to work on bin collection day I see a number of homes outside which there are more black bin bags than would fit in a wheelie bin. I also see every morning rubbish strewn on the street presumably by animals trying to get into black bags. Perhaps my route to work is unusually blighted by these problems and they don't occur elsewhere. If they do then wheelie bins will help in both regards." (Paul Pryce) So everybody who makes the best use of the systems that the Council provides has to be penalised because not enough is done to educate help and encourage those who don't? Times have changed - we never used to have so much packaging and buy so much that is unnecessary and waste so much. We made more effort to live within our means. The only bags that I have seen split open have food in them. Food that should have been put into a lockable food waste bin to avoid that happening. Or best of all eaten rather than thrown away. Tackling the problem areas would be more constructive. Have you considered reporting the houses in question to the Recycling Officers and suggesting that they pay a visit/send info/investigate whether they are illegal HMOs without proper provision for recycling and residual waste? Or do you just walk through the mess grimacing and pinching your nose closed? Everybody else including you pays for the extra it costs to landfill unsorted waste. (Incinerators have gate fees too.) So who is responsible for all this unsorted waste? Where does this large percentage of unrecycled waste come from? (The little film below shows it as 67% of what is currently being sent to landfill.) http://www.therubbishdiet.org.uk/shrink-west-londons-waste-train/ |