Waste Disposal - Get a Camera and a Receipt

It doesn't solve the fly tipping problem at all, in fact its undoubtedly party to blame. So what would your un-bureaucratic solution to fly tipping be.

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Reply to
Mark
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It doesn't as is shown by the fly tipping...

Our nearest dump, (about 30 miles away) requires a permit(*) for vans of any size, pickups. flatbeds, crew cabs, twin axle trailers up to 3m long (Odd what if I have twin axle trailer 3.1m long...). No trade waste at all.

You can go in with a car with single axle trailer up to 3m long (guess who has a single axle trailer a shade under 3m long...).

(*) I can't find from the Cumbria CC web site if there are any costs associated with obtaining a permit. It doesn't say there are but it doesn't say there aren't either.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

Simple. Make it easier, not harder for people to dispose of their rubbish in the correct place.

Reply to
Andy Hall

I considered it, then remembered being told that collectivism never works.

Phil Young

Reply to
Phil Young

The universal answer (to most things!) is to make it easier to do the right thing than the wrong.

Reply to
Rod

Oh yes that's an easy answer, how would that work in reality?

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Reply to
Mark

The message from Adrian contains these words:

Edinburgh's just as bad. Got bounced from a refuse disposal site because I arrived in a privately registered 12-seater LandRover Station Wagon. I assume that the moronic employee couldn't read sufficiently well to understand the details on the vehicle excise disc.

On the other hand, our local one is brilliant.

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Appin

Start by not having complex schedules involing four different collection containers to be put out on three different days spread across two weeks.

Make it possible to dispose of things like household batteries at local facilities. Silly that I have to drive three miles uphill to comply with the proper method of disposal. (Not supposed to put them into any of our four collection containers.)

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Rod

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:29:36 +0000 someone who may be Rod wrote this:-

My bins are collected on the same day every week. Which bin is to be collected (up to eight weeks ahead) can be looked up on the web. It is neither hard or complex and even elderly slightly confused people manage it.

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David Hansen

My local council gave us a small blue bin to put waste paper in. It is collected roughly every two weeks, in a slightly erratic schedule. They notify us of the schedule by putting a note in the bin ...

Ian

Reply to
The Real Doctor

Lucky you!

How many elderly slightly confused people do you know who can and do look up the schedule on the web?

I know that *I* forget which is to go out which day and which week.

Reply to
Rod

I don't think that would have any effect on fly tipping, which is(around here anyway) predominately larger commercial items and building waste.

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Reply to
Mark

Rod (Rod ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Ours is relatively straightforward. General bin every week, compostable bin alternates with recycling boxes on the same day as the general bin.

How do I remember which is which? Simple. I look to see what the neighbours have put out...

How do I remember which day to put 'em out? Simple. I hear the binwagon, swear, and dive out of bed...

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Adrian

I have just been for a walk. I have *never* seen so much rubbish scattered everywhere. The contents of numerous paper/recyclable plastic & can bins have been distributed throughout the streets and woodland by the winds. And the containers themselves. I guess these are mostly the ones that people actually bother to put out.

But I can see why people who are out at work might avoid using any of the recycling facilities rather than come back to lost containers and mess. They are then left with rubbish to get rid of...

Reply to
Rod

Rod (Rod ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

I don't think you can blame your local authority for last night's wind.

Reply to
Adrian

Yes I don't dispute that household waste should be made as easy as possible to dispose of, your waste collection arrangements seem unnecessarily complicated, we have just two big bins one recycle one rubbish.

But the original article in this thread was undoubtedly referring to what would be commercial waste and fly tipping, plus a small amount of journalistic side-tracking re "Motorists".

How the LA fairly deal with commercial waste and the fly tipping consequences without householders subsidising the cost is a question most councils would love a solution.

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Reply to
Mark

Of course I don't. That was the Met Office's fault. :-) But I do blame them for dreadful implementation of a "recycling" policy. Including:

Choice of containers that are almost guaranteed to blow around even in moderate winds and that have no means of securely attaching the lid to the base, nor the base to an anchor of any sort. Containers that are so poorly constructed that they get damaged by simply trying to close the lid in a fairly gentle fashion. (A considerable amount of the plastic consists of broken bits of recycling containers.)

Definition of recyclable items that causes widespread confusion.

Recycling centres that are extremely hostile to users. (Some staff are quite friendly - but the whole system is unpleasant.)

Expensive large item collection. (Last I looked it was something like "up to three items" for a single fee. Which is fine if your refrigerator, washing machine and freezer all need replacing at the same time.)

Reply to
Rod

Yeah, thats the method I tend to use!

Reply to
Steven Briggs

Steven Briggs (Steven Briggs ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Luckily, I don't live next door to you, else we'd both be screwed.

Reply to
Adrian

It doesn't in the end. I was talking about individual effort to make the point.

Reply to
Andy Hall

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