| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Warning ! rubbish bins collections from flats above shops | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 07/01/26 17:38:00 |
| I'm not going out right now and don't expect to be out gallivanting along Chiswick High Road for while longer. I've got this awful cold so many others have or still have or have had and am still coughing - hence the importance of thinking and needing to use loo roll instead of tissues for my nose for a week or so. David - the reply to your earlier message was long because it has been a long and changing BUT very satisfying journey! The challenges are constantly changing. On the hoof eating and drinking have increased that pedestrian input to the litter problem. The area around a fast food outlet used to advertise the existence of it. Just like orange carrier bags and fluorescent green bags hanging from tree branches or swirling around in circles used to advertise the local supermarkets - but they now seem to have become ghosts of the past! Yippee - WE changed our habits. Are there sponsored litter (not dustbins) at particular distances from fast-food shops? Are there any banners urging those who can read them not to litter and fly-tip 'in our neighbourhood'? Since Covid there seems to have been another pandemic of distinct lack of consideration for others! Cardboard has always been a problem for households rather than businesses who have more often had to deal with this and Covid meant that more stuff was and probably is being bought online. I've never ordered much online and am very happy to not have the anxiety caused by waiting either for it or for having to chase up to find out where it has been delivered to. Life has enough other stresses and mysteries. It would be good to be able to revisit some of those 2 minute documentaries made about waste years ago when the problem was loads and loads and loads of black binbags in fact mountains of them obstructing the pavements and all around Chiswick High Road's magnificent trees. Before Covid people also used to get their personal items ordered online delivered to the office and the amount of packaging with that was huge and of several different types. I remember a campaign against those huge standard sized boxes Amazon used when there was just one thing rattling around inside it. However their wraparound cardboard packaging for a book or CD that would take it through the letterbox safely was absolutely brilliant. Now parcels are often delivered to local supermarket stores - including ones within the same overall group ownership. I only have a recycling box and it's only on a rare occasion that I've only managed to put just a part of a flattened box in before the collection. They often have another use in the meantime and I'd would absolutely hate to have to go out and buy a lot of special packaging in order to post or deliver something! I usually get things delivered direct. |