| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Recycle bin collection issues | |
| Posted by: | Jennifer Selig | |
| Date/Time: | 12/11/17 14:51:00 |
| Reading through many of the comments here:- 1. Many of us have busy lives to lead with better things to do than wade through the masses of literature and instructions put out about rubbish & recycling - IT HAS TO BE KEPT SIMPLE & EASY (at the moment it is not); 2. One size doe not fit all. Our estate comprises 2 bed, mostly 1 - 2 person, maisonettes, a ground floor one and a 1st floor one, sharing very small brick built bin areas. We've kept the 2 regular dustbins which we line with black bags for the fortnightly collection. 2 food caddies fit in but only a sufficient footprint left in the bin area for one recycling box under the concrete "lid" of the bin areas. Our tiny maisonettes have absolutely no storage space for these large recycling boxes. The 1st floor homes would in any case have an impossible task carrying these down carpeted stairs. We have returned many of these large boxes and try to share the ones left between neighbours. Initially we were all storing mainly air in these boxes, one home barely filling even 1 box. The exception in a few cases being the plastics box. 3. Plastics seem to be the main problem - many older people have prepared foods, always in plastic or foil containers, some seem to drink big quantities of bottled water - can't think why as Thames Water tap is 100% fine but their choice. In an ideal World, the empty containers should be carried back to the supermarkets but the old and infirm or the "car-less", cannot do this. The easy way out is to bung plastics and tins into the outside black bags! Hardly recycling! A simple solution needs to be found, maybe clear sacks for plastics in addition to the black sacks for non-recyclable refuse. Doubt a big plastic user would manage a fortnightly collection as per black bags, the clear bags would have to be collected weekly but at least the stuff would be sorted. Clear bags are far easier to access, move & store than huge rigid boxes. |