howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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could this be the start of a full blown rebellion?
both houses have a massive frontage and two bins each yet these black bags are out on the pavement.
not even the right colour.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Wonder if the inhabitants speak English or are they just thick. I saw our excellent bin men trying to explain what goes in each bin to some foreigners over the road this morning.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Those two houses are both split into flats so it's possible the wheelie bins were full....? Or tenants who don't care/ don't understand or both.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
not sure if they are flats - only 2 bins at the front of each house.
even if they were there have never been problem tenants at either to my knowledge, most certainy the people are not our friends from the new europe.
the bags were tied up and neatly piled.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
I've always found the urban wasteland rather exiting, a mystical world where dark shadows play tricks with the mind.
This picture takes me back to the good old days before the arrival of those awful bins - the blight.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
In "the good old days" that picture of Howard's would have had rubbish strewn everywhere.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
of course they the right coulor,you cant get purple ones from the supermarket yet.the purple ones from the council are to expencive to by just to be chucked in to the dust cart.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Now that the system is up and running along the Folkestone Road (where that photo was taken), black bags should not be used. They will have had wheelie bins for their waste so no bags of any description should have been put out.
In the new year, black bags will be opened to see if there are any contact details of the owners and they will be written to and probably/possibly fined. They know that black bags are not to be left out, but put in their wheelie bins.
Because of the incorrect use and in many locations, incorrect placing of the wheelie bins, they really do blight many areas, especially the Folkestone Road and the Clarendons.
It is a good scheme, badly implemeted.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
My son back on a seasonal visit commented that the streets seemed tidier but he also remarked about the large number of bins in front gardens, saying why not have communal bins.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Huge numbers of purple bags out along the London Road yesterday. Sadly it wasn't rubbish day!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
- Posts: 345
I am finding one black box is not big enough for the paper and card I accumulate over a fortnight, anyone else having the same problem? I am using my old blue bag as well but am I supposed to?
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
- Posts: 345
I have also witnessed passers by chucking their rubbish into anyone's bin in their front gardens. Better than on the ground but for the householders who find that their bins have been filled up with someone else's rubbish that's not so good.
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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Roger this morning I had to put out my black box, my blue bag and a black sack, all with card and paper in them from Christmas. I left the black sack wide open so they can clearly see that it contains recycling. Does your posting number 28 mean that they won't collect it? In which case what else was I supposed to do when I had already filled up both receptacles provided to me for the recycling.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Claire, I have used my blue bag since the new collections started with no problems, the black box is nowhere near large enough for paper and cardboard.
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Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
- Posts: 345
Thanks Jan, I shall continue to use it then. I am pleased to report they took everything I left out.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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most people put their stuff on the usual day but everything was a day late between christmas and new year.
mine got collected today.
jan mentions about communal bins, wouldn't work in many case - some people would put their black bags tied neatly while others
would throw things in loose resulting in argments.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
The communal bins might not work in all cases but surely they would for the majority, better than 6 or 8 bins stuck outside. One house has knocked down part of their front wall to allow access to their numerous bins.
The flats in the old Salvation Army building used to have a communal bin under the new system they have purple sacks, as a result the place looks a real mess on collection day which is a Thursday.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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the same problem with a block of flats in clarendon street, plenty of room for bins but they are issued with purple sacks that litter the pavement.
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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Well, my bins have now gone. Just had a man come and take them away and give me blue box and bags. Not sure what's happening about the rest of the road though.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
not sure if i have mentioned this on here but i have been trying for some time to get my bins replaced with those fetchingly attractive purple bags.
lo and behold at 16.53 hours the contractors did just that, just a question of checking if morrisons have a fatted calf in stock for the celebration.
