Waste recycling centres

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  20 September 2012     20:16192386
  #1      
  a beautifully worded press release but the upshot is likely to be more flytipping.
  
  http://www.kent.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/recycling_and_rubbish/ways_to_recycle/waste_and_recycling_centres/operating_policies.aspx
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  20 September 2012     21:41192391
  #2      
  I feel for PaulW and his pals.
  
  What is 'of equivalent'?
  
  "Asbestos - Limited to one sack of equivalent per visit"
  
  So, I am a hard working and law abiding Pole (for instance) who has difficulty reading English. I often have my truck loaded down with waste from the work I do in domestic properties in the Dover area...should I take it home to the 'old country' when I next visit my mother?
  
  Oh!?
  
  http://www.kent.gov.uk/environment_and_planning/recycling_and_rubbish/business_waste.aspx
  
  On the up-side when asbestos and car-tyres have a possible second life, this will help...
  
  http://www.wpesoutheast.co.uk/
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 761

  • Registered: 10 Jul 2012
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  21 September 2012     09:03192420
  #3      
  Even if the waste comes from a domestic property, if it is the result of commercial activity i.e. you have paid someone to clear your garden - it then becomes trade waste. The person transporting it must hold a waste carriers license, and make out a consignment note before they start their journey. If they go to the Whitfield site they will be wieghed in and have to go to the trade waste section at the top where everything goes to landfill even if it is recyclable - the charge is now well over £100 per ton.
  For RESPONSIBLE business owners I suppose this does encourage us to recycle everything we can ourselves but unfortunatly there are all too many IRESPONSIBLE 'business' owners out there, who are just encouraged to fly tip all the more.
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  21 September 2012     09:56192424
  #4      
  "Following a ten week public consultation on the future of our Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) and a subsequent Cabinet Member decision..."
  
  This statement, coming at the beginning of the notice of changes, is rather off-putting. I am left wondering why 'subsequent' rather than 'consequent' is used. It strikes me that what is being said is:No matter what the public says one Cabinet Member will do just as they please.
  
  The public preferred free disposal of tyres, one at a time. The result is that you can take one or even two and pay £5, I don't know what happens if you have three:pay £10, or take one home again? [I think I have discovered that it is a 'maximum' of two tyres, from the report linked to below]
  
  Fly-tipping was, and is, a major concern. Points at (4) e & f address this issue...
  
  https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=21545
  
  The popular desire to be able to take items away and reuse them seems to have morphed into 'wpesoutheast', linked to above at #2 and commercialised. A little sad,IMO.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.