In other countries residents themselves take much more responsibility for and pride in keeping their streets clean and taking responsibility for safeguarding their rubbish - and clearing up spillages.  Here everyone now seems to prefer to moan at the Council - or anybody and everybody other than themselves. I used to regularly see the staff of the Roebuck sweeping the street outside their premises early in the morning.  I can only claim to seeing two other residents sweeping the street outside where they were living and neither was British. With Business Waste it depends on all the different licensed waste collection companies who collect business waste in the area and compete on the open market.  Business rates do not include waste collection and every business is supposed to have a contract.  Contracts sometimes are not very flexible eg three months' notice and you have to hope that the collection times will suit you.  In some places the collections have to be made between set hours and waste must not be placed on the street outside some hours and there are often notices in the street telling people this.  However I still don't see why some of these bags can't be protected on the street.  In seaside towns you will see gullproof bags attached to a building to protect the black sack inside but I suppose when it is business waste those would have to be easily identifiable by the different contractors - more difficult in the dark in winter. I would be mortified to see my neighbours or potential customers tiptoeing through my rubbish on the pavement but it seems that many others don't seem to mind.  I do remember there being residents who would replace bags of rubbish in gardens of the houses which they came from when residents failed to protect their waste in a bin and left it out on the pavement the night before to be ravaged by - foxes, seagulls, cats, rats, magpies and crows - as well as kicked or tripped over by pedestrians and if hit by a car it wasn't long before it was spread right the way along a whole street. Food waste is now supposed to be separated which makes it easier but it was very obvious who was and wasn't wrapping their waste and who wasn't recycling or making any attempt to reduce the volume of the waste they were making with cardboard boxes unflattened and still filled with unrecyclable polystyrene. Luckily there is less of that and of mixed materials in packaging now. Don't businesses belong to any groups?  Once upon a time there was also someone who was employed by the Council to liaise with the shopkeepers.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 09:14:00	Tim Mackinnon
Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 11:19:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 12:57:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 13:21:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 14:20:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	06/07/25 14:40:00	Sam Hearn
Re:Re:Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	07/07/25 16:07:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	07/07/25 21:27:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Chiswick is rubbish	07/07/25 21:46:00	Denis I. Fox

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