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Recycling centre - Dan Jordan (3rd Jan 2004 - 16:13:07) I did the duty of taking our glass bottles to the recycling bins at Sainsburys. I was not alone in this act. On seeing that there were seemingly more bottles on the floor around the bins than in them i drove away to await the bins being emptied. My question is why do people just leave their rubbish around the bins? Do you think this type of action contributed to us losing the other recycling bins? I think so. Surely instead of littering our village we should be contacting EHDC to voice our displeasure. Do not start making comments about the increased usage of the bins over Christmas. I know this to be true but the rubbish around the bottle bank is a regular occurance not a seasonal one off. So you good recyclers out there stop leaving you litter / recycling around the bins and start complaing to EHDC about the situation.

Re: Recycling centre - Paul Robinson (4th Jan 2004 - 10:07:12) I think that everything possible should be done to encourage people to use the recycling bins. Most people's idea of recycling is to drop litter in the street, see thread on litter in Headley Road. I think you will find that the problem with the bins at Sainsbury's this year is that they were full on Christmas Eve and have not been emptied during the extended Christmas break. If domestic dustbins can be emptied during this time, mine was collected on Saturday 3rd January, why were the bottle banks not emptied? Paul Robinson

Re: Recycling centre - Marian Camilleri (4th Jan 2004 - 19:05:58) I have driven to Sainsbury's twice since Christmas to try to deposit my empties. On both occasions I have driven back home with my bottles as the bins have been full to overflowing. On both visits I saw people leaving more bottles adding to the ever growing sea. My question is Who is going to put the bottles they are leaving into the containers? and do the people leaving their bottles on the ground think about that.

Re: Recycling centre - Paul Robinson (5th Jan 2004 - 09:59:52) My guess is that when the full bottle banks are taken away for emptying and replaced by empty ones the bottles on the ground will practically fill the replacements and we will be back where we started on Christmas Eve! I repeat. If we are to encourage people to recycle bottles etc we have to provide workable facilities. Don't knock the people who leave their bottles and jars on the ground, they are fulfilling their part of the deal, EHDC need to make better provision at this time of the year to fulfil their part.

Re: Recycling centre - Nick Hancock (5th Jan 2004 - 13:29:11) I can only agree. We gave up at Sainsburys and ended up recycling our bottles in Aldershot, where we happened to spot some bins with space! Failing to empty the bins at Christmas reveals an unforgivable lack of foresight on the part of EHDC (or is it the contractors?). The people who deposit bottles around the bins are at least trying to do the right thing rather than leave their empties with their other rubbish. We may not like the mess they leave at Sainsburys but we have to help them to do better by providing adequate facilities. Nick Hancock

Re: Recycling centre - Tracey Hancock (24th Jan 2004 - 12:08:14) Once more, the glass bins have been full to overflowing this week. I noticed that someone has now kindly provided overspill wheelie bins ,which removed the glass off the ground at least, but were also full on my visit. If the council can't organise sufficient collections at Sainsbury's, surely the case can be made to have a second collection point elsewhere in the village?

Re: Recycling centre - Les (27th Jan 2004 - 12:13:34) When I was down there the other week, trying to squeeze the last of my bottles in, a well dress older woman got out of her very new Mercedes. She took a box containing dozen or so wine bottles from the boot of her car and placed it on the floor by nearest bin and started to get back into her car. When challenged, she said, in a very posh voice, “ I’m in a hurry and I haven’t the time to put those bloody things away” and drove off. Just goes to show that its not just the lowlife that can’t be bothered to put bottles away, people off the Berg can’t be bothered either.

Re: Recycling centre - Christopher James (29th Jan 2004 - 14:41:25) Education is what is needed here. If we lived in other parts of Northern Europe we would be recycling far more than the paper/card, plastics 1,2,3, glass and garden waste. We could also recycle all biodegradable waste as well (waste food on the whole) (which would obviously need collecting once a week). The fact that Mrs Mercedes Benz even bothered to deliver her glass is a start (whether she lives on the Berg or not - I have not seen too many Mercs on that estate, but I hvae seen quite a few in the Avenue and Tunbridge Crescent). If glass was also collected from each household, I would venture to suggest that far more glass would be recycled than presently is. Has any thought about how makes money on our recycled rubbish? We as tax/rate/poll tax/community charge payers (or whatever you want to call it) pay for the collection of our rubbish, some of which is turned round and sold back to us, I cannot believe anyone is loosing money other than those paying for the collection of the rubbish! (I dare say there are plenty of views on this point) If consideration were given to extending recycling and putting in proper and appropriate collection methods, surely, this in turn would reduce what is sent to landfill! I dare say that the only way any of this will happen is when legislation is brought in forcing us as households to comply with whatever new recycling laws are brought in, by whatever President we have at the time – assuming the present non-stick one is still in place in 10 years time!

Re: Recycling centre - Freddie Dawkins (30th Jan 2004 - 09:18:21) And if anyone would like to start waste vegetable recycling, I'd be happy to take bags each week. My chickens like nothing better. In return, I can offer you the occasional half dozen, organic, free range, brown shelled eggs. Freddie Dawkins 07769 665 963

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