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Originally Posted by Sirius
So the fact that my council wants to move us to fortnightly bin collections and that they might now be able to charge for using a local tip, I think they will have a big big big problem with fly tipping. The lawn of the town hall sounds a good place to start or the garden of our local Labour councillor  .
My local council was even caught dumping recycled waste in the land fill 2 years ago. |
and make sure it's the foulest of garden refuse to
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when i worked on the landfill sites i'd say about 60-65% of the unloads were council wagons. and the amount of stuff that could have been recycled was unbelievable, and yet they want us to pay them for the privilege of doing their work for them by sorting the recycled stuff - must be a health and safety thing. for instance where the mother-in-law lives comes under chester council and they have to sort everything into separate bins (paper/plastic etc - sure there is a green one for garden stuff to), where as all we have is one general bin for recycling which takes everything - although only collected every two weeks is a bit naff as ours can be full after 4-5 days.
so if councils want us to do the sorting and all they do is dump straight to site........................what is the point of them having recycling sorting centres, and shouldn't they be paying us?
another thing is that nearly all these landfill are privately run by a few major waste companies - WRG/Viridor/Biffa/Sita and all the council does is the collect and dump, well not exactly as they sub out a lot of the collections to these companies (thought i'd mention that for the hell of it) but these companies can still sort recycling out and on lots of sites they generate electricity by burning the gas and selling it back to the grid.
there are parallels here...........costs nothing to be wasteful and non-organinc (best word i could come up with) as opposed to being green and organic. and in todays climate (no pun intended) it's a difficult personal choice.