>The council expects residents to separate items such as paper, plastic, metal, food cartons, and glass themselves to help cut costs. A weighted hessian bag is used for cardboard.
Expecting people to glass themselves seems a bit much!
So they have wheelie bins in the north? I’m jealous
What’s actually happened here? It’s the daily post, which makes it hard to get through.
We’ve had recycling carts with three separate boxes, seemingly forever in Gwynedd and Anglesey, and they work fine.
Denbighshire.
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TLDR: so you don’t have to read through it. There is a problem with the regularity of collections, nothing to do with the system or the wheelie bins or the separation of recycling.
I was amazed how many little boxes you have in front of the door over there…the wheelie bins in front of the houses are ugly like in France…
My mum hasn’t had her food waste bin emptied since the last week of May. The only excuse they could be bothered to think of was that they didn’t realise it would take longer for bin men to manually empty 6 containers per household compared to attaching a single wheelie bin to a lorry and pressing a button. Nor did they realise having much smaller lorries meant they would have to return to empty them much more frequently. They’ve had anybody they can spare in the council doing bins, even disabled people who pay to attend various work opportunities places the council runs. Some places in the county have genuinely looked like a literal dump because they’ve been getting missed for so long. Google Prince’s Street Rhyl rubbish and see the pictures of that. Absolute shit show.
The system itself is fine but the council basically didn’t do enough research into how long it took, mixed their staff up so nobody knew the routes etc and they didn’t hire nearly enough staff to do it. One of the local papers did a freedom of information request and found this new system which was supposed to save money actually costs 3 x what they said it would. It’s council negligence and incompetence, not an issue with the system as such. Other counties around Denbighshire use the same or very similar systems with no issue. The new containers also are basically the same items we recycled in the bins, they’re just separated now. It’s not really much different on the resident end than it was before.
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>The council expects residents to separate items such as paper, plastic, metal, food cartons, and glass themselves to help cut costs. A weighted hessian bag is used for cardboard.
Expecting people to glass themselves seems a bit much!
So they have wheelie bins in the north? I’m jealous
What’s actually happened here? It’s the daily post, which makes it hard to get through.
We’ve had recycling carts with three separate boxes, seemingly forever in Gwynedd and Anglesey, and they work fine.
Denbighshire.
To save you all a click.
TLDR: so you don’t have to read through it. There is a problem with the regularity of collections, nothing to do with the system or the wheelie bins or the separation of recycling.
I was amazed how many little boxes you have in front of the door over there…the wheelie bins in front of the houses are ugly like in France…
My mum hasn’t had her food waste bin emptied since the last week of May. The only excuse they could be bothered to think of was that they didn’t realise it would take longer for bin men to manually empty 6 containers per household compared to attaching a single wheelie bin to a lorry and pressing a button. Nor did they realise having much smaller lorries meant they would have to return to empty them much more frequently. They’ve had anybody they can spare in the council doing bins, even disabled people who pay to attend various work opportunities places the council runs. Some places in the county have genuinely looked like a literal dump because they’ve been getting missed for so long. Google Prince’s Street Rhyl rubbish and see the pictures of that. Absolute shit show.
The system itself is fine but the council basically didn’t do enough research into how long it took, mixed their staff up so nobody knew the routes etc and they didn’t hire nearly enough staff to do it. One of the local papers did a freedom of information request and found this new system which was supposed to save money actually costs 3 x what they said it would. It’s council negligence and incompetence, not an issue with the system as such. Other counties around Denbighshire use the same or very similar systems with no issue. The new containers also are basically the same items we recycled in the bins, they’re just separated now. It’s not really much different on the resident end than it was before.