Reading Riting and Recycling?
thought it was reading riting and rithmetic???
Ours have been fortnightly for years.
We need to have a coordinated nationwide recycling policy so that the same things can be recycled in every part of the country instead of this crazy system we currently have where some councils will take glass and some won’t.
I think the reason we don’t see it is because it has quickly been realised that recycling is expensive and doesn’t really have the desired environmental impact. There’s a reason recycling is the last of the 3 Rs.
Family of 5 with the same collection cycle as yours and we don’t have an issue either.Even during lockdown and with a family of four I'm able to easily cope with bins being picked up every two weeks (recycling one week, normal waste the other week). You can even ask for bigger wheelie bins here if needed, but I haven't had to yet.
But to answer your other question.. we don't get wheelie bins here. Just regular black sacks for landfill and small "bag-for-life" type things for recycling that we have to pay for..
And the contractor keeps finding excuses why they shouldn't take it anyway ("not the right bag", "over-filled", etc).
Food waste goes in the general waste.
We have been told to put all food waste into the green bin, including chicken carcasses. It all gets composted and sold off.
Is the green bin recycling? Bagged up I take it or that sounds pretty horrible.
Our general waste goes to an incinerator for energy production which makes a lot of sense to me.
We really do need a national system though, even if it just starts with the same bloomin colours
It seems inefficient for a council to pay a middleman to do the council's work while also paying for the equipment to do that work. Why not just do the work and save the money paid to the middleman? Maybe then they could afford to do the job better.
It's weird how some councils are different. South Bucks didn't empty my green bin a couple of months ago because there were some carrot peelings on the top of all the garden waste!We have been told to put all food waste into the green bin, including chicken carcasses. It all gets composted and sold off.
No but up until the new contract was signed, the Lib Dem council were making a big PR song and dance about how there would be more collections, more recycling.It's nothing to do with party affiliation: Wokingham's council has been dominated by Tories for years and it's utterly atrocious. It's so bad with incompetence, poor money management, lies, probable corruption and malice that I honestly don't know how it hasn't made the national news.
It's nothing to do with party affiliation: Wokingham's council has been dominated by Tories for years and it's utterly atrocious. It's so bad with incompetence, poor money management, lies, probable corruption and malice that I honestly don't know how it hasn't made the national news.
It's not exclusive to the Lib Dems - it's the nature of many of the people who want that sort of job.
If you believe that then what do you think councillors do, exactly? The councillors are making these decisions, or at the very least voting to approve the terms of the contracts after being drawn up by officers.The problem here, that most people miss, is that councillors do not run the council.
It is the council officers who run the council. The councillors are more a sort of board of directors, and the extent that they can exercise their will over the council officers is really quite limited.
Its a bit like Yes Minister, Sir Humphry can really **** up your day if you try to do something that Sir Humphrey really doesn't want you to do. And replacing Sir Humphry with somebody more cooperative/compliant is neigh on impossible.
If there are envelopes of cash changing hands anywhere, it is more likely going into the pocketses of the Sir Humphreys rather than those of the elected Councillors.