Topic: | Re:Re:Wheelie Bins in the Gunnersbury Triangle | |
Posted by: | Rima Jones | |
Date/Time: | 14/01/16 11:19:00 |
Good morning everybody. I see that this thread has gone the way of all threads and descended into farce. It wouldn't be CW4 if it didn't. I like to think my head is in the right place if not my heart. I find this topic very long and tedious but will try just a few more words by going back to the beginning. The hard fact is that recycling has to increase to 50% by 2020 or face massive fines so with the present rate 35% and falling how is it to be done? The councils have come up with a decades old scheme for cramming front gardens with wheelie bins and fortnightly collections. An alternative has been suggested on this forum with no reasons found why it wouldn't work but at the same time no support for it. It was then too late to stop the first lot of bins arriving in Hounslow, petitions against them with no alternative suggested, having failed. We could however opt out but would not have our "residual" collected although, in fact it was. This time we could not opt out but could appeal and our homes were revisited on google which confirmed that our front gardens were suitable, whatever we said and the bins duely arrived. There was then a protest in Braemar Road. Where there are bins on the Glebe Estate it is because the residents didn't choose to opt out. Fortunately reason has prevailed with Hounslow and 240L bins for mixed recycling will not be arriving, a great deal of work involving people who don't post on this forum, having gone into proving that it would not improve recycling since only basics could be accepted. Unfortunately that is not the case with Ealing and 140 bins for residual plus 240L for recycling will be arriving in April for fortnightly collection. It's too late now to stop it from happening so what's to be done? |