Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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HOUSEHOLDS RECYCLE MORE
AS NEW SERVICE IS ROLLED OUT
Dover District Council is welcoming the success of the major new recycling service that continues to roll out across the area - and is thanking householders for their support as recycling rates have already hit a fantastic 45%.
Results show that October saw recycling rates at 45% - that's a 9% increase on the total for the same month last year (36%), and an 11% increase on the total for October 2009 (34%).
Some interesting points from the roll out include:
· Around 30,000 properties are now able to recycle under the new scheme
· The cost of the new containers and wheeled bins is being funded by Kent County Council out of the savings made from households recycling more
· New things residents can recycle include - beverage cartons (Tetra Pak), batteries, empty aerosols, and all types of plastic packaging (pots, tubs and trays), (but not plastic bags)
· 175 tonnes of food waste was collected in October from approximately 15,000 properties. If it was not recycled into compost it would have been thrown away
· Storing and putting waste out in bins stops it being attacked by seagulls and foxes, leaving less rubbish on the street after collections
· The joint service arrangements between Dover DC, Shepway DC and KCC are projected to save the partnership around £4m a year.
Cllr Nicholas Kenton, DDC Cabinet Member for Environment and Waste said: "These are fantastic results, and we thank all the householders who are helping us to protect the environment and recycle more. A recycling rate of 45%, while we are still rolling out the new service, is great news and shows we are on target for 50% or more. We look forward to continuing to work with residents to recycle even more for the future."
The new service includes the introduction of a weekly collection of food waste and an improved recycling collection. DDC is providing residents with new containers for food waste, and wheeled bins for the collection of a greater range of recyclables and for the fortnightly collection of the waste that householders have not been able to recycle.
If you have not received your new bins, don't worry as the new scheme will be rolling out to properties up to January 2012.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Funny that, I go out of my way to make sure that nothing I put in the bin is recycled. Everything goes in - glass, plastic, cardboard, you name it it goes in.
Is this a crime against the environment or are people a little more enlightened nowadays? After all witch burning ended centuries ago but I can't help feeling that environmentalism has taken on a mindset which goes some way to help explain fascism and how easy it is to manipulate people.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"The cost of the new containers and wheeled bins is being funded by Kent County Council out of the savings made from households recycling more"
I hope that the savings mentioned in the quote above are not based on mere projections of reductions in land-fill costs, from the EU or elsewhere, and that real money is being made from the recyclables. I note that food waste is being put to a far better use and it's collection weekly will go a long way to make sense of the bi-weekly general collection mentioned.
Aluminium cans, PP, as light as there are by the each do represent a great big hole in somebody's back yard. Can this be the egalitarian way to go about life and living and caring for the tiny planet we all share?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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I have always recycled what I can, long before it became the in thing to do, because I believe there is a value in shepherding scarce resources.
"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
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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I don't know if you're all aware that the latest beano for climate fanatics is now going on in Durban. However Canada has told them all that they will pull out of the Kyoto agreement (Hooray!!!!) next month.
This leaves little old UK as the only country in the entire world signed up to stupidly legally binding laws to stop the planet from destroying itself.
Erm, so this means that sooner or later the lights will go out and whatever industry we have left will be utterly destroyed. We passed the climate change act in order to take a lead and hoped the rest of the world will laugh at us, sorry follow and take action to get ice back on the top of Kilimanjaro or somesuch other mountain.
Doh!
Aren't we the stupid ones eh?
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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No not really - so we were unable to encourage the rest of the world to follow suit.
Of course now we must decide if this change of heart by others puts us at a significant disadvantage, if it does then for purely economic reasons we will need to repeal the relevant legislation.
Whilst the evidence for an anthropomorphic cause of rising global temperatures has not been proven little or no one denies that there is a long term rise in temperatures. Likewise virtually no one suggests that there are limitless resources in the world, the next likely major pinch point and cause of conflicts will be access to clean fresh water, we can do something about it now or...
"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
I think, on present form, it will be or.............
Humans never cease to amaze by their stupidity.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
The bins are being delivered up Salisbury Road as I type.
I know this because the noisy ba....ds were literally dropping them off the lorry right outside my bedroom window just before 7.00am, the noise was horrendous.
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That'll be the old man awake then........he's going to be a bit snippy!!! Glad I am in Essex!
I don't want them they take up to much room and why should i do the councils work for them to get paid for it all mine goes in the black bag, I pay my taxes let them do it the more we do the less men they need to employ.Please take mine back
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Black bags won't be collected soon Alan - not after you have received the wheelie bins and if you don't get the wheelie bins because there's no room, you will only be able to put out purple bags as the black ones will not be collected.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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just had an e mail from the council stating that it takes up to 8 weeks for an inspector to re-assess.
get on to them now alan.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,701
If only that were true Roger - black bags are still being cleared on London Road by a second truck
"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
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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black bags already not collected roger
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Ross - Where the new system has been introduced, but wheelie bins cannot be used, the purple bags are being given out - two per week.
I believe that when the whole system has been wheeled out (sorry !), there will be no black bags collected, so there may be some collected in this meantime - but not afterwards.
I understand that to be the case Keith, but as the job orders are being processed, these anomolies are being sorted out.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
even more confusing, let's look at the facts.
a) ross has witnessed black bags being collected.
b) terry states that his black bags are not being collected but others are
c) the council says that they will only collect purple bags.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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When the scheme is fully in place Howard, there will be some collected in the meantime
Roger
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Hopefully we will see purple bags available in your local supermarket or are these official purple bags branded with the DDC logo?
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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My bins arrived yesterday,I put my rubbish in there,wheeled them out this morning bin man comes wont take my rubbish.I get up a second lorry comes walk straight past them.e mail to Roger Walton expressing my glee.Will wait otherwise Buckland Avenue will be decorated with wheelie bins,thinking of hanging Christmas decorations on them!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
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