Actually it's almost like that now in some places. I recall a tower block in my home town of newham that was in the news because of the circle of rubbish that surrounded it. The residents had got into the habit of throwing all their rubbish (including used nappies) out of the windows and a circular heap was forming.
I don't know how that ended, but it must have been going on for some time before the newspaper got hold of it.They probably knocked the tower block down.
The "people just won't behave nicely" argument is why the rubbish and recyling plans just won't work. It is an area where people tradionally do not behave nicely as in the tower block example.
We have been told we will be fined if we don't clean our rubbish well enough or if we put non recycles in the recycle bin.
Which isn't fair as other people put their rubbish in your bin and before people had even used the new bins someone in the street got their bin stolen and youhave to pay for a new bin.I is beginning to wonder if the sapiens bit is the right word to go with homo after reading all this about rubbish.........................
Creature do tell me that you does not get a special grant for the Landfill, it all within the Revenue Support Grant, but RSG not go up as fast as the Tax. I does think it to encourage more recycling.
Anyway, Creature pleased because he got a thankyou email from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for beating their deadline for the Revenue Outturn forms, wot say how much HCC have spent for 2004/05. Never got that before. You can look up the blank forms here and it the Excel spreadsheet one wot Creature have to send back. http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/finance/stats/lgfforms/revenue.htm
And they has had only One Question, which was quite funny.
The Question was Why your two grant figures from us different to wot you said at estimate time?
And Creature said Because we did know that you clawing back some of those grants in 2005/06, so we does make provision for that in our figures for 2004/05 because we is Proper Accountants, and prudent, too.
And they say oh................but.............our model cannot change those figures. We must make an adjustment, where does you think it should be made?
And Creature do say, I does not care where you make it, my figures are the proper ones. I does make a note of where you want to make your fiddle, but I not changing my figures on the form, you can do that yourselves.
So Creature was told where they do put in a figure to fiddle the grant figures back to wot they want, he not care, it do not change the bottom line wot is the Council Tax Requirement.
So there you are. It called Whole of Government Accounts, but I bet if you put it all before John Prescott, he have not a clue wot it all about.There is a program tonight about what happens to the recycled things after they are recycled.
It is on the same time as Corrie so use of the video may be needed, but it sounds very interesting.Sounds worth a look then. I bet that after making you carefully separate it into catagories they nip round the corner and tip it all onto one huge pile Almost, except it goes a bit further than the corner.
Fiona Bruce investigates allegations that household waste supposedly separated for recycling is in fact being illegally dumped in third world countries. [S]
I make up something silly and it turns out to be more or less true. What kind of world are we living in?. I had a letter from my borough council today about our new recycling service. The 2-page letter is so joyous, so happy to report the vast improvements we will shortly be fortunate enough to have the opportunity of enjoying, so delighted to report that my recycling efforts have reduced ozone emissions by a remarkable 1% and saved half a small tree in Wales, that it is hard to extract the salient points, which are:
Garden waste will now be collected from the kerbside - from the special bin which they will be happy to rent to you at a cost of £26 a year. You don't have to rent one, of course - but don't be a cheapskate cheat and try and sneak it into your ordinary bin as it will no longer be collected - checks will be made.
Work harder at your green box sorting. You could do much, much better. To encourage you, this collection will now be made weekly instead of fortnightly.
Ahah! but if you are doing all this correctly and really sorting every item into one of 30 categories on an hourly basis, then allocating it to the correct bin or box in a freshly washed condition, then you will no longer need the weekly Green Bin collection, and that will now be fortnightly, and no black overflow sacks allowed, as that shows you didn't allocate to boxes 1 and 2 correctly.
Here is a picture from the leaflet. It shows a happy merry, after breast implants and waist liposuction, sorting her daily rubbish.well our recycling scheme works well for us... A big green bin for 'ordinary' waste... a Brown bin for Compostable (kitchen) waste and Corrugated Cardboard and a green box (well in our case 3 green boxes, one ours and two theirs) for recyclable rubbish oh and a green sack for paper and card.
We pre-sort the recylable stuff into the three boxes - plasic, Glass and Tin (yes I know it's all steel/Alu these days) We put all the junk mail (except envelopes) into the Green sack after removing identifiable names and addresses We put all our kitchen waste into the brown bin wrapped up in newspaper (which is also allowed in there) so the bin doesn't get mouldy too quickly and it doesn't stink too much.
We put all our other waste in the big green bin.
Green bin is collected every other wednesday, Brown bin every wednesday and green boxen/sack every other monday.
Works well. We never fill the brown bin, sometimes fill the Green one (but have no overflow) and usually give them a lot of stuff to shift on the boxen and sack.
Extra time taken to do the recycling - insignificant.
Jobs created by recycling - we pay them council tax rather than unemployment benefit. Hmmmm don't see the problem/difference myself.
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