20 February 2010
10:5241084#1
Took two large bags of plastic bottles etc., to the community refuse centre (dump) yesterday, only to be advised to chuck them into the general skip.
I am confused. The DDC website states that plastic bottle etc., are taken with glass and cans to a specialist site for sorting and eventual recycling.
If that is the case, why no receptacle at the dump for this type of recycling material?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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20 February 2010
11:2841088#2
i find all the recycling issues confusing.
it will be worse once the fortnightly collections of refuse start.
20 February 2010
14:4341093#3
I believe the recycling will be weekly, and so will commercial food waste, but domestic waste fortnightly? If that is so, whatnI don't undersdtand is why it can't all simply be weekly??
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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20 February 2010
18:0541096#4
Cost Bern cost,you now live in a District where everything has a price,if the Council can flog it to the Town they will,or shut it,if they can get money out of it watch it go up.
Don't get me going on rdfuse or recycling,that wii be the next big issue!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Unregistered User
20 February 2010
18:5041098#5
Sid, KCC run the Waste Centre not DDC.
DDC take kerbside plastic,which is recycled.
Kerbside recycling [with possible more plastic recycling options MAY be available under new contract] will remain the same.
For those who don't get green i.e. compost, that will be added under new contract with the exception of flats and inaccesible sites. More cardboard collection options are also being evaluated.
Food waste will be taken weekly.
So the answer to all, is food waste weekly , all other fortnightly.
I hope this is clear. Ignore JHG who has motives to confuse.
We want to increase kerbside collections not reduce it.
Your efforts have seen recycling rates soar.
Watty
20 February 2010
19:0541100#6
Why can't DDC keep a container at the waste centre so that at least people who make the effort to recycle have somewhere to put the plastic. exactly the same thing happened to me at Deal a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to help my elderly mother by taking her plastic containers to the depot as she has problems carrying them down the stairs.
Unregistered User
20 February 2010
19:5041102#7
DDC don't hold the site contract . KCC have contracted out the collection facilities.
Watty
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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20 February 2010
20:1441103#8
So will Tower Hamlets be included in recycling because most of it isn't Paul,because of the hills,and what about wheelie bins?
Tell us all about the plastic container you will get in your green bag,if you are telling me I have the motives to confuse, please tell us everything.You told me I was wrong over the Toilets,but I didn't have to apologise to the people of Dover.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Unregistered User
20 February 2010
20:2241104#9
JHG , when the contract is awarded, we will describe the service more accurately. You have the principles identified.
Watty
21 February 2010
09:2041110#10
If the recycling lorry from DDC is doing the rounds it could stop to empty a container at the waste site. That is what I meant.
21 February 2010
11:4341117#11
Thanks for the explanation Paul, much appreciated. I agree with Handyman though, one extra stop at the refuse centre to collect personally deposited plastics would be such a sensible way of solving a not very difficult issue.
Perhaps one of our grossly underworked and overcompensated KCC Councillors would be good enough to expedite a solution for the community. Well, they can't have much else to do surely?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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21 February 2010
12:1341121#12
I have a friend who lives in the flats at the top of Mayfield Avenue; there are no recycling facilities for those flats, which seems bizarre. Paul (or any councillor who knows), any idea why?
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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21 February 2010
13:4841124#13
Andy as I said very little of Tower Hamlets get recycling because unless they can collect it quickly they don't seem to want to know,eg hilly,remote area's but then you have Barton Road,but Buckland Ave get it,this is green waste collection.
It is a complete mis mash on how why and what is collected and I fear it will not improve with the new contract,and no matter what Watty says and you can quote me the refuse collections will not get better from the new contract starting later in the year October I believe.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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21 February 2010
15:3941130#14
John
Thanks for that; the point my friend was making when this arose was that collections couldn't get any worse as they don't get any at the moment anyway, nor have they been given any recycling boxes to use. Given that he pays council tax the same as the rest of us, why therefore doesn't he get equality in terms of recycling facilities?
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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21 February 2010
18:5541133#15
How about this my Brother had his black box taken from outside his house when he called DDC he was told he could have another box at £8.Guess what my brother does with his recycling now.
Back to your question Andy I was told that there is too much recycling to do in the district so I guess that there is only 1 or 2 vans doing it,yet DDC figures say this.
Houshold waste sent for reuse,recycling or composting
Q1. 34% Q2, 32.9% Q3. 29.4% DDC Target is 32%
Levels of participation in recycling scheme;
Q1. 66% Q2 66% Q3. 71.4% DDC Target is 60%
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Unregistered User
21 February 2010
20:2041140#16
I think you will find that the new contract should pick up these points.
Because of housing types and geographical locations there will be different solutions for different areas.
The objective is to improve and maximise the service.
The figures above represent some of the highest figures in Kent.
Thanks.
Watty
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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27 February 2010
17:1741486#17
Just out of interest, with the price of scrap metal on a high at the moment last time I heard, why is there never advertised a scrap metal collection? I suspect the weight problem maybe, but there`s plenty of small stuff about I`d have thought.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
27 February 2010
17:3041488#18
Paul.
I'd be grateful to know why someone I know who has a wine bar, has to pay to have his bottles taken away for landfill, and is not allowed to use the recycling since it is apparently only for domestic waste bottles?
27 February 2010
17:5441489#19
Good point well made, Bob!
As an aside, scrap metal used to be great business....what happened?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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27 February 2010
18:0141490#20
Colin it was high but not now scrap steel is less then £10 ton if you are lucky some yards will not even take it Stainless steel not to bad, where I worked it all goes to London four years ago you would get up to £100 a ton but not now.