| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Recycle collection mess | |
| Posted by: | Steve Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 10/04/22 20:45:00 |
| “ We have looked at scheduling street cleaning the day after collections but it's impractical. For a start collections are weekly (and in some cases more frequent) and cleansing schedules are fortnightly in most places.” It shouldn’t be impractical. Even if the street cleaning is only fortnightly, at least there would be no litter every fortnight instead of every single week! Why not just give it a try before declaring it impractical? “Recycling teams are tasked to pick up anything they drop but not with cleaning the street of stuff that was there before they came, however especially if it's very windy and people don't use nets there is a perception the teams drop stuff.” It isn’t a ‘perception’. It’s 100% fact. The teams are seen dropping stuff and ignoring it. Sometimes they even kick it under a car or hedge. The problem is that no Council Officer or Councillor is ever out monitoring the recycling teams. If it really was a problem of wind blowing stuff out of boxes, the Council could quite easily enforce the netting of paper and plastics boxes. i.e. if your boxes aren’t netted they won’t be collected. This isn’t rocket science it’s just basic common sense. And if people decide it’s too much hassle to recycle, we could do as the USA and check wheelie bin contents randomly. Anyone caught binning recyclables is very heavily fined. Again, not rocket science, just simple waste management. Something has to be done to stop Hounslow looking like a cesspool. Other Boroughs get it right. Why is it just Hounslow that is such a dump? |