DDC info: New Recycling and Waste Collection Service
- 23 July 2011 07:47116232NEW RECYCLING AND WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE
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Dover District Council is making sure it gets the message across when it comes to telling residents about their new recycling and waste service - with special four page leaflets being delivered to homes across the district from next week.
The new service will be phased in across the district, starting in September. Residents will be able to recycle even more plastic, and will be able to put all their food waste out for weekly collection. The service will include the use of wheeled bins, wherever possible, for the collection of a greater range of recyclables, and for the fortnightly collection of the waste you have not been able to recycle.
The Council is able to offer the new service thanks to a ground-breaking partnership with Shepway District Council and Kent County Council, which is projected to save the partnership around £4m a year.
Roger Walton, DDC Director of Environment and Corporate Assets said: "The service has been shaped by what local people have told us. Now our job is to make sure that we tell residents how and when the service will change, and we have an externally-funded communications campaign to help us tell people all about it."
The council is using various methods of keeping residents informed, including:
· Leaflets to all homes
· Radio, newspaper and bus stop advertising
· Road shows
· Service guides delivered with new bins and containers
· Features already distributed in Dover District Council @ your service newsletter
· A team of advisors who will call on homes to explain the new service
· Regular updates on the DDC website.
Cllr Nicholas Kenton, DDC Cabinet Member for Environment, Waste and Planning said: "We look forward to rolling out the new collections, and we would like to assure people that they will receive full information well before the new service starts. These important changes mean we will be able to recycle significantly more, save resources, and work together even more effectively to protect the environment for the future."
The new service will be rolled out on a round-by-round basis. Alternative collection methods will be used for homes that cannot have wheeled bins. For more information, please see the DDC website at www.dover.gov.uk
- ends -email: dover7@msn.com - 23 July 2011 08:23116237Yes I have already been to a few meetings about this one,and on Monday night in Deal as a Parish Cllr I am going to a meeting again about the above.
- 23 July 2011 09:18116254is there any need for advertising in newspapers, on the radio etc?
leaflets to each home and service guides should be more than enough. - 23 July 2011 09:30116257No I do not think so there has been alot of local meeting even in the parishs, already been in the local papers anyway+ leaflets in doors,
- 23 July 2011 10:32116271I will have to pin one of these leaflets to the wall because and I dont know if others are like this, but I never remember what Im supposed to do from one week to the next. I never remember when the recycling guys come which is currently every other week, but who knows when its the other week..not me!
They probably listen to what people say as Roger Walton says there, but at a guess I suspect the real drive forward comes from Mr Cameron's government and the need to save money.email: dover7@msn.com - 23 July 2011 11:04116276I guess it will take some time to get used to the different recycling sorting, etc. and I can see some people won't want to be bothered about it all, wonder what the procedure is then to deal with their lack of interest and unwillingness to conform.---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 23 July 2011 11:13116281You can currently sign up to e-mail reminders about the recycling so that is worth doingBeen nice knowing you :)
- 23 July 2011 12:17116308Paul, you can find out what gets recycled and when by finding your street here http://www.dover.gov.uk/recycling/refuse_collection.asp
The Gateway doesn't seem to be listed and I don't know what street it would come under, or do they think the residents are too old to be IT connected!
- Jan Higgins
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23 July 2011 14:36116332I fail to understand why some I have spoken to find the new method so difficult to understand.
It is the same as the old except food waste will now be separate from ordinary household rubbish, the recycling is more or less the same.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 23 July 2011 15:31116350Ah Ray yes indeed we're all ever so slightly gaga down here in the Gateway...totally unwired and unconnected. .although as with anywhere else we are not terribly unified.
I did mention The Gateway at the recent NForum thing as we seem to be on a different system. We just put rubbish down the chute and gawd knows what happens to it type of thing. Thats probably why we are not listed. Although they do come and collect bottles and newspapers every so often. I hear the crunch of breaking glass as they tip it into the truck but other than that I never know when they are coming. So my bottles are always left here until I do my trek to the local bottle bank. Fortunately Ive cut down on drinking.. so my bottle output has diminished.
email: dover7@msn.com - 23 July 2011 15:36116351(Smugly said): we compost anyway so most of our food waste goes to good use.
- 26 July 2011 16:58117007Received said four-page leaflet. Surprised it was in an envelope! What a waste.........
- 26 July 2011 17:43117019what about people who live in flats have they got to have wheely bins i have not seen any thing posted about itYorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred
- 26 July 2011 17:45117020each property is judged on its merits ted.
- 26 July 2011 17:51117024Thank you Howard that,s make,s it a bit clear for meYorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred
- 4 August 2011 13:41118348a fine example of a household committed to recycling here, this was taken this morning but the same could apply on any day.
nothing is wasted, seagulls, rats, foxes even the odd epicurean dog can find something to tittilate the taste buds here.
- 4 August 2011 16:08118371Jan - "the recycling is still more or less the same" - yes,but I think I read that they will now take ALL plastic packaging - wonder if this includes plastic shopping bags and other bags?---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - Jan Higgins
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4 August 2011 17:03118385If I have understood correctly it will be any plastic with the recycling symbol. We have been putting those out since the Veolia lorries have been coming round with no problems.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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5 August 2011 07:28118445lets hope it all works and people use the facilityALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 11 August 2011 15:08119948a surprise this morning to be greeted by this household appliance thoughtfully left by persons unknown overnight.
