Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The Daily Mail are, I believe, running a campaign to ban wheelie bins. Surely the weekly scene shown below is a good case for them.
Taken this morning at about 06.10
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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What a mess. A picture tells a thousand words and you can see how that maxim applies here with this shot above. We get this kind of thing down on the seafront too....only yesterday there was a vision similar at the back of the Premier Travel Inn. It just takes the contents of one bag to make one heck of a mess and on a windy day it blows all over the place. I take it the culprits were the dreaded seagulls.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,302
The urban fox also plays a part Paul.
At about 06.30 the mechanical sweeper came past. Twenty minutes later two smaller ones arrived and within a few more minutes the small items were sucked up and the larger ones re-bagged. Full marks to SITA on this one!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Send them up my way then please! We used to have a great street cleaner up towards Connaught Park, but it's been a real mess recently, with the rubbish strewn around by foxes and seagulls, and left there. A car went over a jar a few days ago and the glass was still there a few days later, waiting to snag anyones tyres if they were unwary. (I have moved it now). Where is our chap?
Guest 668- Registered: 13 Apr 2008
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I was going to post on this matter a few days ago. On rubbish day Dover is disgusting, It's a simple fact. We need wheelie bins!
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Not all houses can have wheelie bins,but use an old fashioned dustbin with a lid,then on collection day put your bin outside.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There are indeed many problems for wheelie bins in Dover, hopefully that scourge will never hit us. I always put my rubbish out as late as possible, in the morning, so the seagullys do not get at it.
A seagull cull anybody? (foxes too.....)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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barryw,that would cause up roar with the animal rights people,but do agree with you.i think i will take two asprin and lay down in a dark room after that.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You know Brian, I could not care a less what the so absurdly called 'animal rights' lobby think.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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youre right they are a nasty bunch of people.but saying that they do have a point.and every body has a right to a point.
Guest 668- Registered: 13 Apr 2008
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The choice between picking your way around half eaten food and nappies or wheelie bins, one is a bit of an eyes sore the other a serious health risk. How long before one of our kids picks up something discarded by a rampaging seagull? If even 60% of Dover could get wheelie bins I'm sure it would make a big difference to the gull population and the rubbish eyesore. Come on DDC give us the choice!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
the herring gull is a protected specie.
if people wrapped their rubbish properly, put it out at the correct time and in the correct place(at the nearest point from their property to the road), not on the road, the problems would not be so bad.
having said all that, i would love a wheelie bin.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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CULLS no, so we now have the right to judge and kill
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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As an alternative why don't people stop throwing food away in their black sacks and wash out all food receptacles before disposal - then there would be nothing to attract the damn foxes and gulls
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Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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Good point Ross
On the weheelie bins, many areas aree to hilly fior them, imagine threm being pushed down the hills drunks, youths or whorever
need a rethink here
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Correct Keith. It is also not a matter of choice either or ChrisK. Wheelies have special loading vehicles and either you go all wheelie or stick with the black bags.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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BAZ
We can agree so often,!lol
so it needs to be thought out before we make more errors
Unregistered User
Exactly lads. The new contract is being looked at currently and both methods of collection are being reviewed, recognising the points you make.
Watty
Guest 668- Registered: 13 Apr 2008
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Fair point BarryW, having recently lived in both Whitstable and Faversham (fortnightly wheelie bin collections) I never faced the mountain of rubbish strewn across the streets of Dover every Thursday.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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Paulw if things are under review and SITA are to remain in contract(or a new contractor) can the followeing be looked at;
1; When rubbish is collected in Eaves Road rubbishj bags are NOT thrown from the bottom houses up the bank thus causing black bags to split open and never cleaned up
2; When the banks are cut the grass cuttings are taken #away, as at moment it goes everywhere and is walked into the homes
3; recycling such as grass is collected from the lower even number doors at the moment that doesnt happen.
thanks
keith
