Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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...just delivered in Effingham Crescent.
What on earth can I do with these damn things polluting my front?
The Council has completely lost it, gone mad introducing these things.
I think we should revolt and refuse point blank to use them.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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yours do not look too bad barry against the backdrop barry, imagine if your house had been in multi ocuppancy?
all seems to be accepted in shepway, a lot less fuss there than here in dover.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Far better to have a steaming heap at the end of every street and the gulls and sundry other urban-vermin to recycle what the may. The very idea of 'man' clearing-up after himself...
Shanty towns and their armies of scavengers...
Or,
A niche market for, Ye Olde Recycling Receptacles?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Maybe you should make it into a grotto, set off by a nice little rockery, waterfall, a few strategically placed gnomes and maybe a spitfire or two with sound effects set off by sensors as people pass by, all lit up at night of course.
I'm sure people would travel from far afield to view the diorama. It could be the new tourist attraction of the age
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I have just dumped them there for now, looks worse in real life. I just don't know what to do with them and frankly cannot be bothered.
There is a dedicated Thread on these bins etc....already
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I know, so what Charlie!!
BarryW....you seem to hitting despair mode
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You said it Charlie - when you look at this plainly daft kind of system coming to Dover. I rejected this type of collection back in around 1988 when I had responsibility and nothing has happened since to make me think it is better now. In fact its worse, what I and the Council's officers then rejected atr least had the benefit of simplicity. I have no ideaa what we are supposed to put in what and what is collected when and have no interest in finding out.
Roger Walton....
Head of Environmental Services
Well, you know my feelings............we are just over-governed....
However, there are a few laughs to be had......
Me.....I have got off lightly.......
Bag of Very Pink Sacks,
and a Black Box
I would dearly like to know what all of this is costing
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Barry just phone them and tell them you don't want them and demand they be taken away. You are not compelled to use them.
Parts of Shepway look like a third world country with these eyesores littering the place.
Of course it has to be said that this obsession with recycling bins comes from the comrades in Brussels who insist on their use otherwise we pay millions in fines.
Jobsworths city.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Better then all the black bags that were round the streets, read what comes with them Barry and you will find out what goes in them,Are you saying you wish to go back to the bags again and the mess that goes with them?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There need not be any mess if people do what I do, put them out first thing. My bags have never made a mess in the street. These dreadful bins though are themselves nothing but a blight on the landscape and god knows what is supposed to go in what and what gets collected when and how on earth we are supposed to organise ourselves around all that and remember. Its bad enough with the present system.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I will try that Phillip.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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If you can not work out what goes into 3 bins,I will come round and show you.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Don't bother - I wont play... thanks though Vic
Tried to ring DDC but was kept holding on. I suspect that they are inundated with complaints. This whole thing is a sorry mess.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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difficult to find an answer to the problem that will please everybody, philip points out shepway as an example.
there are some very nice roads in folkestone that look all wrong with these bins outside the houses.
i have only once had my blac bag torn apart in 9 hours, i put mine out close to the front door and the gulls do not like to come too close.
the older residents around me(read responsible) cover their bags with towels or sheets sometimes with detergent or bleach on and they get no problems.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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And what about the 1000s that do not.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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surely punitive measures can be taken vic?
clarendon place is a nightmare, any day of the week there are rubbish bags on the pavement, maybe the street cleaner should report these and the council come round tell them the error of their ways and if it happens again fine them?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,885
I am sure part of the problem is the size of the bins not many need bins that big, we are still waiting for ours.
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