| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Recycle bin collection issues | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 09/11/17 22:53:00 |
| The Communal bin system here would be stinking day in day out, Outside someones home. How would you feel if it were outside your home? The constant noise as people dump and the smell and mess because you can guarantee that daily cleaning will not be factored into the costing. Even if it is it won't be done properly. What I cannot understand is that the local refuse service and recycling worked perfectly well for 10 years. We chuck out the same stuff and the same volume of stuff. We segregated it in a logical order, it went in to bags and a box, took up no space, was outside for no more than half a day and that was that. It went not trucks in the same way. So how can it be increased? How can waste have been reduced? It quite clearly has not. Now we have our tiny front gardens annexed by LBH into mini Space Wayes recycling centres - except they are open to all 24/7. Once tidy small gardens now largely decimated by lumps of plastic that cannot be put away, won't stack and jam when they do, fill with water, smell and to top it all, inspectors who stick labels on boxes if the wrong kind of plastic is in the plastics box. We have a neighbour who is both colour blind and suffers mild dementia. She has hardly had her waste removed since June. She gets the boxes mixed up. Can you tell which colour is which in the dark? Or remember all the new rules? Not easy even with normal vision and no confusion. LBH have not even bothered to respond to complaints. In the end. it took a Polish neighbour to have a not very quiet word in Russian to the operatives and now they sort her box. A one minute word that somehow proved impossible for LBH to manage in 11 weeks! Simply shameful incompetence. That was all fine for her until this week when some official came along and prevented them from taking her boxes and put stickers on them. It's not the operatives its the idiots in charge and no doubt the even bigger idiots who devised all this. They need to be made to get out there and do the collections themselves for their higher than average salaries which are clearly not earned. So we and many others who have diligently and enthusiastically recycles since the first day of a green box joined the black bag, now simply cannot be bothered. A simple task has been made overcomplicated, authoritarian and pretty stupid. Most of it simply to suit the productivity of huge waste conglomerates share price. And please Phillippa, I know you mean well and are a bastion of recycling but we do not all need to be taught how to suck eggs. People are trying to recycle as much as possible, but moving goalposts and muddying the waters in the way that LBH has mismanaged spectacularly is where the problem lies. |