Refuse collections

[mikes]

I've heard that the change to black bin collections has been scrapped due to the response to the consultation.

Can anyone confirm that this is correct?

I had an email from Lisa Smart to this effect. 

[Lily]

This is what I spotted in The Stockport Express

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/plans-empty-stockports-black-bins-12213952

[admin]

I've heard that the change to black bin collections has been scrapped due to the response to the consultation.

Can anyone confirm that this is correct?

[My login is Henrietta]

Absolutely! bagged bananas from Tesco, just pick up a loose bunch. Ready meals... plastic tray, cellophane and in a box! Glass milk bottles did actually do what they were supposed to and were easily re-used. Our "convenient" lifestyles are to blame but it needs legislation to prevent the supermarkets fuelling it with unnecessary packaging. Maybe Brexit will allow us to step back in time little to some of the things that WERE actually better.

Without wishing to appear smug (well, not much anyway  ) I do buy milk in glass bottles and I buy loose fruit and veg wherever possible. There used to be a shop in Hyde which sold dry goods on the pick-your-own basis. They actively encouraged customers to bring their own bgs to pack stuff in, allthough they did supply them if customers preferred.

[amazon]

Trouble is, one of the reasons for Brexit, we were told, was to free ourselves from all those pesky EU food packaging regulations!  I don't think the Brexiteers had more regulation in  mind!

What has Brexit to do with the bins .

[Dave]

it needs legislation to prevent the supermarkets fuelling it with unnecessary packaging. Maybe Brexit will allow us to step back in time little to some of the things that WERE actually better.

Trouble is, one of the reasons for Brexit, we were told, was to free ourselves from all those pesky EU food packaging regulations!  I don't think the Brexiteers had more regulation in  mind! 

[jimblob]

Perhaps if there was some sort of scheme to fine the makers and sellers of products which have extortionate amounts of packaging we wouldn't need bigger bins. One packet of biscuits I bought recently had THREE layers of packaging - two of which were un-recyclable!!

Absolutely! bagged bananas from Tesco, just pick up a loose bunch. Ready meals... plastic tray, cellophane and in a box! Glass milk bottles did actually do what they were supposed to and were easily re-used. Our "convenient" lifestyles are to blame but it needs legislation to prevent the supermarkets fuelling it with unnecessary packaging. Maybe Brexit will allow us to step back in time little to some of the things that WERE actually better.

[My login is Henrietta]

Perhaps if there was some sort of scheme to fine the makers and sellers of products which have extortionate amounts of packaging we wouldn't need bigger bins. One packet of biscuits I bought recently had THREE layers of packaging - two of which were un-recyclable!!

[jimblob]

rather than melt down all the existing black bins, why not simply move to 3 weekly collection but offer people a second bin if they think they'll produce more waste. A 20 year return on a loan to replace all the black bins for slightly larger ones.... crazy! I do think green should be fortnightly too. if you fill your green bin every week get two or go to the tip yourself.

[wheels]

Because the councils want to increase their blue+green+brown recycled collections (saves them money, by achieving quotas) and decrease their black refuse collection (costs them money, landfill taxes etc).

http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/49956/150501+LGA+Recycling+targets+position+paper.pdf/0b496595-d7fe-4128-afc2-4d51f2eb6249
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/monthly-bin-collections-would-boost-uk-recycling-rates-say-experts

It save us as CT payers money not the council's themsrlves

[sgk]

okay, i may be being a bit thick here, but why not move the blue green to 4 weekly (same as the brown) and green bins to fortnightly or even 3 weeks during the winter and keep the black bin as it is ??

Because the councils want to increase their blue+green+brown recycled collections (saves them money, by achieving quotas) and decrease their black refuse collection (costs them money, landfill taxes etc).




http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/49956/150501+LGA+Recycling+targets+position+paper.pdf/0b496595-d7fe-4128-afc2-4d51f2eb6249
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/monthly-bin-collections-would-boost-uk-recycling-rates-say-experts

[mikes]

I think the proposal is a good idea.  I would like the other collections kept as is and even perhaps a larger green bin as I fill mine weekly with garden waste (yes even during the winter).

[ROTHERS]

okay, i may be being a bit thick here, but why not move the blue green to 4 weekly (same as the brown) and green bins to fortnightly or even 3 weeks during the winter and keep the black bin as it is ??

[admin]

You can "Have Your Say" on this via the following link:

http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/councildemocracy/yourcouncil/haveyoursay/?view=Standard

[Cyberman]

  Due you think we could youse are remote tv controls to put the out for collection

No - it's so they can be put under a curfew. If they are seen on the streets after 8:00 pm they will be sent to the cells of newly-opened Marple nick.