Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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I might pay for it, although I will only use it occasionally. I don't have any transport and I do have a few shrubs and a giant flowering cherry tree that will need cutting back. £40 for a year will be cheaper than paying someone else to take it away. I have one of the free compost bins but there's only so much you can put in that.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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You have hit the nail on the head there Colin, you are one of the sitting targets. Yet your waste must be an asset. Where would commercial compost wholesalers get their raw material from?
The stuff doesn't grow on trees, surely.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I have it on good authority that KCC are not going to charge people for taking waste to the Whitfield site. That is, as of now. If they decide to some time in the future, that will be a new decision.
Where did you get your info from Gary ?
Roger
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We could use the fountain, horse trough and planters as a landfill, then there is always the DDC offices and grounds
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Roger.
I was told by one of the workers at the Deal depot. He said it is being considered but he felt it was more when than if.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Gary.
Hope it's just one of those Chinese whispers that go round every so often.
My source was a very senior officer at DDC - if KCC are telling him porkie-pies, I'll be very surprised.
Roger
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Roger.
It could well be a whisper, which I hope is not true.
But when you get answer's like "That is, as of now." does cover backs for the future and is not a confident "no"
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
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Gary, I presume you have been talking to the contractor's employee not KCC.
Watty
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I can't disagree Gary - and people/bodies do change their minds when circumstances change.
Roger
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Yes Paul.
All rubbish tips are run by contractors, as far as I am aware and they are often the first people to be aware of future plans.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
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Are they Gary?
Watty
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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I dont know Paul, are they not then?
My friend works at both Deal and Ramsgate depots, so I know they are but I dont know about the others, which is why I said "as far as I am aware"?
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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will be surprised if charges are not put in place in the next 6 months, all authorities are strapped for cash and need to explore every avenue to get hold of a few bob.
a lot of these rumours are put about by the powers that be to soften the blow when they actually come in.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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No Chinese whispers at all but nothing decided, consultation is now being undertaken by KCC, you have until tomorrow to make a comment and results will be published on 9th May!
http://consultations.kent.gov.uk/consult.ti/hwrcconsultation/consultationHomeGuest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I've just completed the online form to submit views, mainly a choice of ticking yes, no, maybe, don't know options (apart from wanting to know my sexual orientation
)
One of their main targets seems to be removing services for commercial organisations which they don't have an obligation to provide (with the risk of increasing fly tipping). There's no question asked on whether you would be prepared to pay for any services, but I found this statement elsewhere which mentions income generation -
Our service review includes an assessment of the Household Waste Recycling Centre network in terms of:
•economy (costs and income generation)
•efficiency (productivity)
•effectiveness (customer satisfaction, recycling rates, material types and capture)
•location
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i reckon my guess of 6 months could be correct.
3 months survey followed 3 months later by the decision that has already been made.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,878
Sounds about right.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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People, people listen up.
The reason we are all having to suffer the indignity of blighting the frontage of our houses is because of the perceived threat of global warming. No I kid you not.
Under what is called the landfill directive which was invented by a rag tag of hippies, do-gooders, great unwashed with no real jobs, pen-pushers, big business with vested interests and in general others with an axe to grind, these people had a big meeting and came to an agreement which they called the "Kyoto protocol".
So worried were they about "global warming" they decided that a major threat to our planet came from the gas emitted from landfills. These trace gases, mainly methane and carbon dioxide which are trace gases and are almost insignificant in the great scheme of things, bubble up to the surface in areas reserved for landfill.
Now the thing is there has been no "global warming" for fifteen years. Look out the window if you don't believe me and at least look at the stats which are available on the internet. Even in yesterdays Guardian, yes that's right the Guardian, scientists have admitted that the Himalayas, the poster boy of warmists worldwide, have lost no ice in the past ten years.
This after we were assured that they would be ice free within five.
So next time you think you are doing the world a favour by recycling your waste, sorting the tins from the plastic from the glass just remember how much time you have wasted.
It's time you will never get back.
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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#34 thank you Ray, I have just filled it in. I didn't fell equipped to answer half the questions though!! Had to keep answering 'don't know' . It could have been thought through a lot better. Either that or they designed it that way on purpose! Not that I'm cynical of course!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Philip. Philip. Take care that you are not the source of global warming or traces of gas.
Certainly the old system of charging a deposit for bottles of all sorts would do more good, but this still leaves aluminium cans. Perhaps the rightful place for those is the pavement or the public park, fast becoming their natural habitat.
What if the supply of UK holes dried up? We may as well begin with the Cheddar Gorge than weep over it in a few years time. On the other hand, what about 'Pennines 2', the Tunbridge Tor? Just piling our waste up closer to home maybe is the answer. Turn the South Downs into the South Ups? Fill in the Dover Straits, starting with the harbour and ending with a ten-lane black-top sweeping majestically down where Dover now is?
If we were to set aside the hot-air and general clap-trap from the politicians perhaps the angst would subside and leave us free to think the whole thing through?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.