Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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I think it's fantastic.
You put the food bin out every week and what do they do? leave it.
It shall stay where it is and if it accidentally falls over or what ever then there it will stay.
Any waste food until next week will go in the normal rubbish.
Cracking service.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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not had any problems with the food caddy, i stick it at the front of the others and so far it gets taken
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
They collected ours this morning.
The only problem was we had to retrieve it from over the road where the wind tossed it, thank goodness for parked cars or it could have gone missing completely. There is no way I would pay for another if it went missing.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
Who in their right mind invented this idea to have what is in effect a slop bucket in one's beautifully designed Ikea kitchen? Granite worktops, Laura Ashley bin liners, special pine drawers which have a special mechanism which close gracefully an inch from the cupboard and here's a post modernist tidy for your slops.
Is their intention, in their quest to bring us back to the dark ages, to simply make us all look stupid or do they really think that having a slop bucket will save the planet from the evils of landfills?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I do not know the answer to the question you pose PP, but might it be that these very kitchen slops are the easiest to recycle? An instant plus to aid the take-up of the whole recycling scheme.
Or...
Does the weekly collection of the smelly (vermin attracting, disease engendering) refuse help with the idea of the fortnightly collection of the non-recyclable stuff?
I am sure Ian that if you were to report the fact that you have not been visited as advertised somebody will ensure that the truck will pop round you way soon.
Why make this recycling issue into just another bone of contention? Lets work together, lets be nice and helpful, lets be good neighbours...we'll all be in the kitchen-slop bracket sooner or later.
One, two, three...Ahhhhh
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
The same thing happened to me Ian on our first collection about a month ago. They emptied everything except the food bin, they were all stood together in line and it wasn't hidden. I rang them up, they apologised and it was emptied the next day.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Presumably the contractor's personnel have received similar training to the guidance the residents have been given i.e. incomplete, confusing, inconsistent and inaccurate.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
My Old Man has pointed out that the recycle bins are deep and if glass is put in first it could drop and shatter.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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You have hit upon something there, Bern and to some extent, Peter.
It would help us all, wherever we live & recycle, if we were told what the process was in our area that sorts and collates the different types of materials and where they go and to what use they are put.
We in Hackney use a (single) box system and the materials are sorted at the truck in the street, so no broken glass is allowed; that has to be put in the free-standing estate or pavement bins.
Why all the mystery?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,610
For those who have the new purple sacks, I have been told that they will only be taking two a week. Should prove interesting over the Xmas period.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
But the contents of those purple bags will only be collected every two weeks, will that be enough ?
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Following on with the Christmas theme..........
What will happen about the food collections, turkey carcass plus the extra left overs might not fit in the bin so will have to go in with the ordinary rubbish.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
Good point Jan, we can only do our best with the tools provided if the food bin is full then ordinary rubbish it is, though I am sure we will be told that is wrong
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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took this a few minutes ago, recycling day and a mixture of everything.
will be interesting to see what remains this evening.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Good photo Howard - let me know if it isn't collected.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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pleased to report this is the scene today roger.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,136
Oh no do not tell me the saga of the bins spent all week trying to get rubbish moved, can not fathom out this system at all some of us here on Buckland have the recylcing bins and some like myself don't so totally confused good luck to anyone who has got it right cous i sure as heck have not
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
looks like the system is still not accepted by everybody.
underdown road this morning.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
There are a couple up Albert Road stuck on the pavement since delivery as there is nowhere else to put them.
Awful bit of parking in the above picture even if it is a narrow road.
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In our house I inhabit the basement for my painting and music, and the light from the front window has been just right for the colours when I paint. With the bins out there the light is altered. A bit of a middle class kind of rant, but it has irritated me!
