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Weekly bin Collections or not??, Local & National Tories at odds... |
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Sep 30 2011, 08:43 AM
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Agree there was nowhere near enough consultation on this & Benyon should speak to Minister Pickles on this, which WBC have tried to slip through unnoticed. Pickles is committed to return of weekly collections, where they've been discontinued. Localism not in action at WBC! Prior to this stealth action, there was a committment to remain weekly which is what majority want, & the recycling programme already shows a substantial improvement in recent years, in amount WBC residents recycle. Of course Cameroon pronounced yesterday, war on Supermarket's plastic bags yesterday too, which in this household are all recycled anyway, and used to place rubbish in prior to dumping in bin. If they then are no longer issued we'll then have to buy plastic bags to do same job; with all the current issues relating to economy/immigration/unemployment/European interference in all matters/ UK troops dying weekly in foreign **** holes, he has clearly no idea of what concerns taxpayers have. UPDATE New funding made available by Pickles to return to weekly collections. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8...ollections.htmlWBC: Get with it; stop the change.
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Sep 30 2011, 09:14 AM
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Mr Pickles looks like a full moon.
Fortnightly is enough. My flatmate and I probably throw out 3 bags over a fortnight. Our bin is fairly small. A larger family may use more but then I'm sure if they were more efficient with their waste it wouldn't be half as bad.
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Sep 30 2011, 09:24 AM
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QUOTE (Richard Garvie @ Sep 30 2011, 09:17 AM) So the Tory led Government are saying we should reinstate weekly bin collections across the country. At the same time, our local Tories are scrapping weekly bin collections. Do they not speak to each other?
For the record, I wouldn't mind fortnightly collections providing the proposals were realistic and well consulted on. I don't think the proposals are effective enough, and certainly have not been consulted upon. Maybe the council should delay changes for six months until a consultation has taken place and national policy becomes clearer? We do get weekly bin collections, and will continue to do so. It is a shame. The waste disposal arrangement is one of the things I thought this council had done well, but now it might not be as convenient as it used to. The problem Newbury has is the election bribe council tax is lower than it aught to be, or the settlement isn't enough.
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Sep 30 2011, 09:37 AM
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QUOTE (xjay1337 @ Sep 30 2011, 10:14 AM) Fortnightly is enough. In your opinion.
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Sep 30 2011, 03:06 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 30 2011, 10:37 AM) In your opinion. Yup, conceed. But it is enough. We don't even really recycle, most of our rubbish is packet food (say the bags to some chips or chicken or something), pots of supernoodles and packets of instant crap. We have recycling bins as it's a community bin area. We don't contribute to the pile all that much however last time I checked it was quite overflowing. I'm not actually sure what our bin day is and I've livered there for nearly a year.
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Sep 30 2011, 05:34 PM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Sep 30 2011, 02:12 PM) I'm not sure how the changes make much saving. Willing to be enlightened, but the amount of waste presumably does not change, and the contract with Veolia presumably has no 'saving' clause if the serviuce level is reduced (as Veolia will have staffed and equipped for the collection arrangements in place)? I'm not sure this is about saving money. The benefit as I see it is that the amount of biodegradable waste going to landfill is halved. With the land-fill tax it's possible that there's a cost incentive to compost biodegradables, but there's certainly an environmental incentive as biodegradables in landfill produce methane which is twenty times the carbon footprint of the carbon dioxide that aerobically composted biodegradables generate. I thought the idea was sound (if WBC had addressed the pooh-problem, which they hadn't), and I'm disappointed that Eric Pickles has stuck his big fat central government nose into our local business.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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Sep 30 2011, 06:57 PM
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I haven't gone into the detail, but hasn't the Govt simply said 'if people want weekly collections they should have them'? And then offered to pay the cost which the Councils had had taken away? Waste disposal, like so many 'good things' is becoming a massive earner for not much overall benefit to the communities. Much of what I throw out is unwanted newspaper inserts, flyers, junk mail, stuff thrust through the letterbox, obscenely excessive packaging. Half the business world is creating waste, the other half is making a mint getting rid of it 'for us'.
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Oct 1 2011, 07:55 PM
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And perhaps our MP would seek to justify this waste of £100k plus, his Government Dept has justified re recyling congratulation messages to the residents of Bolton, a well known Conservative stronghold (not!). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...ng-bins-out.htmBenyons Boss is supposed to be reining in expenditure.
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Oct 2 2011, 10:44 AM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Oct 2 2011, 11:01 AM) Your link didn't work, you didn't copy and paste the whole thing. It works for me.
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Oct 2 2011, 11:36 AM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Oct 2 2011, 11:01 AM) Your link didn't work, you didn't copy and paste the whole thing. Incorrect comment! The board s/ware shortens link you see but when clicked on uses whole URL.
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