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Post by mikecollins on Jul 8, 2015 10:46:43 GMT
Hi everyone,
Connaught House bin area suffers from too few brown bins and has loads of extra space in the big metal blue general wheelies.
Do you have the opposite problem? If so perhaps a bin shuffle might be useful?
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Post by wessexflyer on Jul 9, 2015 7:59:28 GMT
It's a nice idea in theory, but is it practical? It's not the sort of thing that any one resident could agree to. Someone, ie Comer I suppose, would need to oversee.
Wouldn't it make sense to try and find out the basis on which the Council allocated the number of bins. If you've got too few in your area, it's most likely because the Council used erroneous or out of date information about occupancy. You may be able to persuade them to put in a few more recycling bins if demand justifies it.
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Post by david on Oct 12, 2017 17:03:02 GMT
Now that we are having the refuse and recycling collected fortnightly we are going to have to be much more focussed about how we dispose of our household waste. Today I photographed vacuum cleaner waste dumped in the recycling bins and bags containing glass and plastic bottles thrown into a general waste bin rather than a recycling bin. Recycling bins are brown and clearly labelled, general waste bins are not labelled but are mostly large, blue and with a black lid. To add to the difficulty, some large,blue bins with a blue lid are for recycling paper as are some small blue wheelie bins. Disposing of half-eaten pizzas, rice, uneaten spaghetti bolognese and waste vegetables in recycling bins is not a good habit so can I implore all residents, whether stakeholders or rental tenants, to recycle correctly, dispose of waste carefully and instruct their cleaners to do the same. Unless we improve our waste management practices our rubbish will be left to fester attracting all sorts of unwelcome visitors.
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Post by Sue on Oct 31, 2017 14:45:48 GMT
The brown bins were emptied today - well there were a few that were emptied while most were refused because their contents did not follow the rules. Today we had a broken wooden cupboard, an unopened BT Smart Hub with the address label on it , several used nappies and a floor cleaning machine in the recycling bins - no wonder the refuse collectors refused them. It is too easy to become sarcastic about the culprits and very easy to turn a blind eye, isn't it? How about all of us accepting responsibility for the rubbish areas being kept clean and tidy. Dare I suggest that a little dose of communal ownership wouldn't go amiss.
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Post by david on Nov 3, 2017 0:05:38 GMT
Our Residents News was helpful in stating on 9th October "......the Council will not take contaminated bins as part of normal collections. Instead they will charge significant extra costs to remove them." That warning obviously went unheeded and eleven bins were refused by the council this week at a cost of £40 per bin to clear them.
When I saw the state of the bin areas around the estate this week I was left feeling hugely disappointed and angry. As a stakeholder I know that I will have to cover a share of the extra costs involved and so I thought about who can have little or no responsibility by way of fiscal penalty for contaminating bins - those who are leaving, those who are renting and those who have no worries about paying extra service charge costs are possible answers.
A worst case scenario would be that this situation is repeated every two weeks throughout the year ( at a total cost of over £11000 to all stakeholders. ) Do we really want to pay about £75 each as an extra on our annual service charge? We must all condemn the actions of a few irresponsible people who clearly have little or no concern for our community. Is there a way to make the irresponsible few realise the error of their deeds? Can we impose monetary penalties on those who contaminate or should we erect a display to educate everyone about correct disposal of rubbish and recycling? When we see these wrong behaviours do we helpfully correct them?
Am I alone in feeling like this?
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Post by david on Nov 22, 2017 0:26:45 GMT
Another week and this time three blue general waste bins were refused at the bin store adjacent to JFK House because residents had just dumped plastic sacks of rubbish on the floor around the bins not allowing the refuse collectors to access the bins to pull them out. Please walk a little further and dump your rubbish in a blue bin at another bin site. This problem has to be solved. By placing your rubbish in a bin at another store when your usual site is full will be a start. Hertsmere tell us that we have enough volume for general waste collected fortnightly. Additionally wood, polystyrene and bags of dog mess have been put into brown recycling bins so that they became contaminated and were refused collection. There is no excuse unless you are unable to see the bin labels. It is quite sad and a personal indictment of those who can't be bothered or not instructing people you employ about disposing of waste correctly.
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