I see the dyed blue Tory papers are kicking up a stink about smelly bins and councils changing to collecting rubbish bins only every two weeks. The Conservative controlled Purbeck District Council did this two years ago. Without consulting anyone. No one had time to protest or comment before they did it. There is no going back because nearly half a million pounds was spent on the new bins. That will be paid for over the years to come.
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Can someone assure me the the stuff we put out to be recycled doesn't end up in land fill?
Purbeck has put out a press release crowing about success of the bin scheme.
It says it has done so well that the council is now able to let residents have smaller wheeled bins.
This is, of course, absolute rubbish. The Echo, which has fallen for this story hook line and empty bean can, should be the subject of the greatest ridicule for its quite juvenile naivite and apparant lack of proper professional cynicism.
What has happened is this.
When the council officials said smaller bins could not be provided because the equipment on the refuse machines could not cope they were talking, no other word for it, utter rubbish.
These smaller bins should have been available right from the start for those who cannot cope with the awkwardly sized bulky large bins.
The whole scheme, in Purbeck, was put before there was any public consultation.
It seems that wwhoever sold the wheeled bins to the council is one of the few to benefit.
A nice little earner of around £450,000.
As to Nick's question: I doubt whether anyone can give him that assurance.
From the samr report in the Echo.
"As a result of the scheme's success the amount of rubbish sent to landfill has dropped from 9,307 tonnes between September and January 2005, to 6,824 in the same period in 2006."
That's a reduction, of 27% to landfill, and is doubtless creditable. But there is the view that it could more inexpensively have been achieved by simply telling the refuse collectors to only take two black plastic bags from any one household a week. The bins are sized to contain about that much rubbish, 3 or 4 bagsworth, a fortnight. We all know that some people put out many more bags than that, and it wasn't unusual to see 5 to 10 bags lined up like sentries outside one house for the weekly collection.
But linking the success of the scheme to the ability to be able to provide smaller bins, well it's rubbish.
The campaign, which I thought had been taken on board by the Mirror rather than the tory papers, is about weekly, rather than fortnightly, collections. It has nothing to do with wheelie bins vs black bags. Surely nobody seriously wants to go back to having bags. There was rubbish everywhere if a fox, dog or badger got at one.
How much extra is being spent on rat catching? They are everywhere now. Our cat has caught and killed 3 in last week and we are worried that she might catch poisoned ones. Our pets are at risk because of this policy. The spanish introduced rubbish collections every other day to reduce the number of vermin in residential areas. How long will it before someone wakes up to the fact that there is a balance that has been upset by new policy.
If you have a real problem with rats you should call Purbeck District Council (556561)and speak to Environmental Services, who (I believe) have a duty to sort out such things.
rat catcher ehhh perhaps they could start at the town hall!
Hard to see how rats can jump 4 feet in the air and flick the lid of a wheelie bin open but did not have the brains to bite through plastic bags.
I heard elsewhere that we are overrun with rats because the water companies decided to economise on baiting sewers as was done when they were an inefficient old fashioned nationalised industry.
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