| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Recycle bin collection issues - Nets | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 14/11/17 18:45:00 |
| I don't agree. Ealing's system is not brilliant either. If you look you see all sorts of rubbish stuck in LBE's recycling bins. A lot of recycling must be unrecyclable. They don't encourage recycling and are a blight on the small streets and small houses. Only they didn't get the rebellion they deserved and some of deemed unsuitable for wheelie bins still use a green box and a black sack (although we still safeguard our black sack in a small metal bin). It was a disaster of a roll-out - left to the contractor with many people without bins and many, many, people requesting smaller bins which although we could see outside some houses we were being told by the Council did not exist. There isn't enough room to turn the bins in the gardens of these small houses, the wrong one is always on the inside, they are difficult to manoeuvre and they are a fire hazard. Estate Agents move them out and into the street when they take photos. They suit big houses who can hide them and landlords who had to pay for them before for tenants in unlicensed HMOs. How many Councillors had vested interests? And all because nobody from the Council would engage with those who did and probably still do no recycling. We ought to be trying to REDUCE the amount of waste that we make. Jennifer's problem seems to be the same that the small houses have - no room - or not the right kind of room - although it is possible that wherever it is that she lives could have bin houses redesigned to suit a recycling and waste collection rather than just a waste collection. There are other estates where bin stores have been very neatly planned and built in but the system no longer works with them. The LBH system is not working at its best yet as I would hope that they will in future add recycling for flats. With reduced government funding it is difficult to keep on informing people on any changes but then people should be taking responsibility for the waste that they make - or trying to... The contractor of course will want to choose a system that suits them! I remember a big estate being built with wheelie bin spaces some years ago only for the contractor to later find out that that area did not use wheelie bins. Things change. I don't think the actual recycling is difficult - it is all there on the website - accessible from the front page. www.hounslow.gov.uk |