howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I want to be there to see those wheeling their fridges and all sorts to the collection point
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Andy B
- Location: dover
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#3
If they can be bothered.Many just use the alleyways as a free tip for their knackered sofas,stained mattresses etc.
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#4
Good initiative. Those organising it deserve credit.
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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#5
It is the embarrassment or stuck up noses Andy - lot people don't like to be seen doing such things taking junk down street. In old days people were no so stuck up as today or embarrassed. As you see my post I am laughing which makes me a bad nut, but point is I know they won't wheel fridges, settee's etc down street this the point, so it will only be the people right next to the point who will take advantage. I think DDC should supply free bulky waste... well not free as poll tax paid which supposed to cover rubbish?. Then there will be unlikely fly tipping.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
Just a reminder, got rid of an old TV this morning.
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#7
Did you take the copper out of it.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
Seems to be a great success with all manner of stuff being brought out and there is also an organised litter pick with Councillors Ann Napier, Peter Wallace and Roger Walkden helping.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Howard.
Yes I was there at 08.30 and helped with litter-picking along Clarendon Place and Street, also Malvern and Belgrave Roads, not forgetting of course, the two alleyways and Folkestone Road.
The top alleyway was the worst, not much at all in the bottom one, apart from lots of dog-poo.
I was a little surprised at the lack of local residents helping out. I know when we did clean-ups years ago, we had a lot of local people helping - times change I guess and now people think it isn't their responsibility to keep the roads and alleyways where they live, clean from litter and rubbish.
I finished about mid-day or just after and as far as I am aware, Peter and Ann didn't actually do any litter-picking up, but co-ordinated the bulk waste collections.
Pleased it didn't rain.
Roger
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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You're right there Roger we did have a lot of volunteers years ago for the clean ups, I believe two DDC officers worked right through.
A lot of stuff meant to be collected didn't because of time constraints but I believe Peter is collecting whatever will fit in his car. I noticed at the corner of Folkestone Road and Belgrave Road it looked a house clearance dumped there.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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It would appear that in spite of wicked Tory austerity, people have loadsa money to buy new 'stuff' - mattresses, sofas, fridges, tyres, flat screen TVs etc but can't be arsed to dispose properly of that which they are replacing.................
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#12
The stuff I saw being carted off looked to have originated in those halcyon days before the wicked Tories brought drought, pestilence and famine to our fair land.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Cartwheels, flintlock pistols, astrolabes, horse collars ...... ?
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:It would appear that in spite of wicked Tory austerity, people have loadsa money to buy new 'stuff' - mattresses, sofas, fridges, tyres, flat screen TVs etc but can't be arsed to dispose properly of that which they are replacing.................
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
Yeats, too, had outlived his imagination. But rather than return to old themes, he gave up.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#15
We should always congratulate any moves to tidy up the area
I do recall arranging similar clean ups with the community and was well supported.
but the community assoc wasn't contacted which was a shame.
But clearing up is all ok and great, but how many times do you do it when people dump the very next day?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I hadn't realised that the community association weren't informed, seems odd considering they cover all the streets involved. This wasn't a clear up in the usual sense,it was about people bringing unwanted household stuff to the lorries.
That would explain Roger's comments in post 9 about the lack of local volunteers.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Hi Howard
I'm sure it was done with good intention but usually with CAWCA involved it would help all that went on and we could have got behind it and advertised it.
Unfortunatly I believe there is an element of political point scoring which is fine, depending on the results you wish to achieve.
All I can say is that when I became involved in my local community 40 years ago I joined CAWCA to find out community views from community activists which helped me a great deal in those early days.
I have continued to work with these volunteers and it does pay dividends
but everyone to there own way of working
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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As you know Keef anything happening in the Priory bit is publicised by C.A.W.C.A and posters put through doors intended for window display.
My house is perfectly situated as people getting off or on buses can't help but see the posters in my window and motorists exiting Clarendon Street have to stop before turning left or right into my road.
There would have been more litter pickers if they had known about it.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Howard
we also have posters in other roads close by,,, we have as you know our own face book page where an advert could have gone and my regular Cllr report I did mention it but as i was not organising all I could do is put it there.
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