RECYCLING TEAM TAKES TO THE STREETS
- 15 May 2011 16:57106405DDC and Shepway Information
Many thanks to them as ever for the info.
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A new team will be out and about across Dover District and Shepway making sure residents know all there is to know about their new recycling and waste collections.
Rebecca Green, David Lane, Suzy Wood and Darren Roberts will be visiting homes to talk to people about the new service, and answer any questions they may have about the changes and recycling generally.
It is just one way that the councils are getting the message across. The communications campaign, funded by the Waste Resources Action Programme, includes four-page leaflets and service guides delivered to homes across the district, advertising and promotion through local newspapers, local radio and poster sites, and road shows.
The improved service will be rolled out in Shepway from early June and Dover District from September. It includes a weekly collection of all food waste, which will be sent for composting, and an improved recycling collection that will take plastic packaging like yogurt pots, ice cream tubs and food trays - not just plastic bottles.
Roger Walton, who leads environmental services for both councils, said: "The aim of the communications campaign is to show how the new collections work and how residents can recycle more, and to encourage residents to use the new services and help protect our environment."
Alternative collections methods will be used for homes that cannot have wheeled bins.email: dover7@msn.com - 15 May 2011 18:30106423Here come your Wheelie Bins!If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
- 15 May 2011 18:31106424interesting press release, good to see recycling taking centre stage.
the question on peoples lips will be whether there will be enough recycling lanes to cope. - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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15 May 2011 19:49106439Wheelie bins mean tidier streets for those that get them.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 15 May 2011 20:46106450Yes agree Jan but in some places and some people they are impossible.If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
- 15 May 2011 22:55106480i got awfully excited by the prospect of wheelie bins then.. is that awfully sad?!
- Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
15 May 2011 23:50106487Yes"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi - 16 May 2011 08:54106495I expect person to person advice IS needed about what you can recycle -
SO many different containers - some card, some plastic, some waxed, some with 'silver' linings, it is so confusing to know which goes where. Then there are the screw tops.
Why on earth can't they either standardise packaging, OR put on the item where it should go.
I think in years to come there will be more regulations for manufacturers on what they can use which can be recycled.---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 16 May 2011 09:04106497it is totally confusing and puts a lot of people off.
would be better if all recyclables went off in one container then sorted on arrival at the depot. - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
16 May 2011 10:14106507There was an item on the tv recently that pointed out that if recycling for the public gets too complicated some no longer bother.
Glass, tins, plastic and paper/cardboard are ok the only problem there are the number of different containers that have to be stored when you add garden and food. I believe three bins are quite enough, recyclable, garden/food and the third one for everything that can not go in the other two.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 17 May 2011 16:15106660I was in the Republic of Ireland recently and they have taken recycling to the extreme, with so many recyclable bins and bags being collected on different days of the week/weeks. The bin man has next to nothing to collect, probably a small bag every other month
- 17 May 2011 16:16106661but do people remember what to put out on what day barry?
- 17 May 2011 16:41106668I'm sure that they have a seperate program on their computers reminding the householders the day before
- 18 May 2011 16:37106780I recycle , but at the moment my bag of plastic food rappers seem to upset the collectors and they always leave it behind and take all the tins and cardboard and bottles .