Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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13 August 2009
20:5127156Dropping out the back of the lorry as they put it in !
Been nice knowing you :)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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13 August 2009
21:2827159howard,i think you will find it is there job.they the dustmen supossed to carry a broom and shovel atatched to the dustcart at all times.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 August 2009
22:2527164that surprises me brian, i thought it was just the bags and road cleaners sorted out any residue..
we need paul the fuhrer to detail the terms of the contract with sita.
14 August 2009
06:3727177Road cleaners? I recognise the words but forget the meaning........we had a great road cleaner where I live, but have had no-one for months. Debris is left by the bin-men (sorry - refuse operatives or whatever) and festers in the road, often including broken glass to shred tyres.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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14 August 2009
07:0727182I was reported once for asking if the road-sweepers could go on a course to learn about sweeping, not just picking up with their tongs (or whatever they are called).
I was told that one road-sweeper still had the original broom, just that it had had 12 heads and 14 handles !
Whatever job you are doing, whether a road-sweeper or Leader of the Council or Country, you should always be doing the best you can.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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14 August 2009
07:2727185BRIAN
I think you will find the refuge collecters DON'T have to clean up after they have been! this District council has allowed a contract to be signed where they dont have to clean up! howe stupid is that!!
BARRYW
I'm in regular contact with DDC our collections are always about 2pm so for those of uswho work and most do in this street, people put there black bags out at about 1 30.
2 weeksd ago after coming for years at 2pm they came at 10am, so they had little to collect, I phoned the council who told me the sacks had to be out by 7am I explain(as it was this week) rubbish would be all over the street by the time they got here. The lady said not her problem.
I did ask if black sacks put out at 7am and collected at 2pm and seagujlls got at all the rubbish woulfd ythe bin person collect it from all over the pavement? she said NO it's NOT IN THERE CONTRACT
I said surely if the rubbish is collected for years at 2pm to suddenly change to 10am someone should have warned the area of the change? she said nope., your rubbish should be out at 7am anyway!!
She suggested i get a bin(which iv since done, a nice pink one!!)
The lady wouldn't except that putting rubbish bags out at 7am to be collected at 2pm and the refugre collecters dont have to clean up mess left by seagulls is a joke
why doesn't the road sweeper come round the day of the refuge collection that would help(oh hang on it might not know his way here i'v not seen him once and iv been here since 1999!!)
Imagine this going to fortnightly, they cant get weekly right yet!!
No im 100% against fortnightly collections
And those cllrs in charge(and all c;llrs) should be questioning these contracts and tieing these PRIVATE companies down, to do a job we want them to do.
Because Ia wont give in the council collected my rubbish the following day
But Ia'v also posted before today on the cock ups with recycling etc
All very frustrating and time consuming
Come on DDC get your act together
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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14 August 2009
12:2027208if cuts have to be made,it is clear on here that refuse collection and street cleaning should not suffer.
i read somewhere that the rat population outnumbers humans in the UK.
no jokes about mp's please.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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14 August 2009
15:0027212I have been reading this thread with interest .Its seems a lot of rubbish is being spouted .I was at the Full Council meeting and once again Paul Watkins stated we would still have our waste rubbish collected weekly .By the time you take your plastic ,glass .paper and cardboard out there is not much left for collection .Mainly food waste which will be collected weekly .I do see that people with young children will have disposable nappies to get rid of will have more rubbish .
Bring back the Terry Nappies ??
14 August 2009
16:2927215Sue - Apart from agreeing about the terrys, I am not sure what you are saying - it's probably me, Sue! We all have rubbish to be collected as well as the recycling (by the way, I put my bottles out in carrier bags inside the box this week as I was averse to carrying them out one by one and got a snotty note through the door saying I shouldn't have done so. Not sure how else to carry the glasses out...........) and the seagulls always distribute the rubbish (very Robin Hood) whatever time it is put out. And we DON'T HAVE A ROAD CLEANER!!!!!!!!!!
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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14 August 2009
16:3027216"Its seems a lot of rubbish is being spouted" - yes all over our road !!
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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14 August 2009
16:3227218"I put my bottles out in carrier bags inside the box this week as I was averse to carrying them out one by one and got a snotty note through the door saying I shouldn't have done so"
Our blue bag blew away (as it had to be up the road rather than by our house!) and we were told that they had to collect no matter what container the recycling was in.
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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16 August 2009
00:2927309They paste a note on your wheelie bin ,over here, informing you of the time and date of your next collection. Its weekly as far as I have observed.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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16 August 2009
09:2027337I always put it in a bin first in bags then in a bin,the cost of a bin is about £10 if we all went back to doing that the rubbish would not be left on the road, so get a bin and save yourself some work in cleaning up after the bin men have been.
Help keep your street and Dover cleaner.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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16 August 2009
09:4727340Yes Vic is very good and puts his dustbin out on the end of his drive for colletion.I have a dustbin which i keep in my back garden come collection day i take the black sack to the kerbside usually collected at 8.00am .THe plastic bottles glass etc Bern I keep the black box in my garage and put items in it on a dailly basis The same with newspapers ..
16 August 2009
12:2927347But the black box still has to be carried out, and if I put the items in daily it is too heavy for me to carry to the kerbside! And, in Dover, I would counsel against leaving anything that could be used as a weapon anywhere near the roadside!!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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17 August 2009
08:5727410I posted earlier about the failure to collect our rubbish on Thursday because they arrived before 7am before I put it out.
Well to be fair I should report that I lodged a complaint on the website about it. A few hours later I received an email apology saying they would send someone to collect.
On Friday this fierce looking appartition, covered in tatoos and piercings, arrived at my door to collect and he could not have been more obliging and friendly! Well done DDC/SITA
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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17 August 2009
14:3627422Get yourself a bin you only have to pay out once, if you get the good black bags they are over £2 for ten only your bin will cost £10only so in five weeks only it has paid for it self and i have had my two bins now over ten years, one has got a hole it it,but with the rubbish in bags as well it is O,K,,you do not have to put the rubbish in bags like i do just in the bins.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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17 August 2009
15:1327423I put black bags into bins, thats what they are for and removed to be put out for collection....Its quicker for the binmen to just toss them in the back of the lorry.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 August 2009
16:5227434that is my experience with sita, one polite phone call to tell them that they have missed me and they are around first thing the following morning.
they cannot do much more regarding collection.
17 August 2009
20:3527454What is this new change and where can we find info about it?