Recycling or Flytipping?

[irc]

My local supermarket has a recycling area.



If I couldn't squeeze it into a bin I would take it away again.

Planet savers or aholes?

[mikef]

I'm not condoning it, but by way of explanation - our local council has reduced recycling collections to every two weeks, closed all the local village recycling drop-offs and now introduced mandatory booking for the few, inconveniently located, large recycling centres (tips), banning out of county users even though it's the nearest recycling location for many in the next county. It has been made increasingly difficult to recycle, it's actually easier to put much that is recyclable into the normal bins

Taking stuff back home just delays the problem of getting rid of the recyclables

[Lo-Fi]

That much cardboard says commercial waste to me. A local business taking advantage?

[havoc]

Lo-Fi said:

That much cardboard says commercial waste to me. A local business taking advantage?

Possibly, but not if no-one has come and emptied it for a couple of weeks or more.

[brillomaster]

I blame the council, they want to encourage people to recycle then they need to come collect it.

I'd have no problem adding to that pile. Then make a complaint to the council about them not picking it up.

[Robertb]

Just the result of lazy people who think that someone else will sort out their mess. Britain in a nutshell.

If cardboard is wet its hard if not impossible to recycle.

On most similar facilities there is a sign which says not to leave items if the bins are full.

[Pica-Pica]

There must be CCTV covering that site.

[DonkeyApple]

irc said:

My local supermarket has a recycling area.



If I couldn't squeeze it into a bin I would take it away again.

Planet savers or aholes?

Maybe just an ill conceived plan by the supermarket to delude customers that they give a st about the environment which lead to an insufficient number of bins and collections?

People are people. We know exactly how people act, whether for good or bad. Messes like this are ultimately a failure by the business to know their customer and opt to do something as cheaply as possible.

I wouldn't rush to blame the people just doing what the supermarket wanted them to do but start by asking the supermarket why they've comprehensively failed to do this properly?

[Slow.Patrol]

My old local council had CCTV and regularly fined people who left stuff around the bins if they were full. Plenty of signage telling people not to do this.

Starting fine was about £400 from memory.

[TheDrownedApe]

we had one of these in Southam Tesco until it started to look like this every weekend. Now we don't have one

[Lo-Fi]

havoc said:

Lo-Fi said:

That much cardboard says commercial waste to me. A local business taking advantage?

Possibly, but not if no-one has come and emptied it for a couple of weeks or more.

True. But those boxes look dry and intact, not the mush they'd be if they'd been out in the rain for days.

[Slow.Patrol]

Wonder how many haven't removed the address labels from the boxes.

[oldaudi]

We have plenty of these in Bristol. Clothes recycling drop off now being used by the scummy locals as a drop off point for plastic children's toys, , part of kitchen work tops, broken chairs, TVs and what appeared to be a bag of used disposable nappies last time I recycled some clothes. The rats and foxes get into it and spread it across the car park.

I don't agree with it of course, as I'm sure the my local Council Tax is being used to remove it all, But when the Council reduce the Collections, charges extra to remove waste, look in our bins and fine us for putting the wrong rubbish in there , force us to book a slot and then complain if we have had too many slots at the Local Refuse Site, missed collection days , missed collections because the Refuse guys cant be bothered to walk a bit further to collect a bin etc I can see why it happens. That on top of CAZ Zones, road works , general traffic and the Green Council making you feel guilty for evening using a car to get to the Refuse center in Bristol, I can see why it gets dumped.

Our local services are terrible and much of the public don't seem to care about their surroundings anymore.

Edited by oldaudi on Monday 8th December 11:33

[irc]

Robertb said:

On most similar facilities there is a sign which says not to leave items if the bins are full.

÷/
There is indeed a sign claiming cctv coverage.
The local tip is 10m drive away. Same day bookings usually available with no queue.

[Unreal]

Slow.Patrol said:

My old local council had CCTV and regularly fined people who left stuff around the bins if they were full. Plenty of signage telling people not to do this.

Starting fine was about £400 from memory.

That would just about sum up public sector mentality.

I'd be interested in the collection arrangements. I see the same every year at UK holiday resorts where bins are provided but are clearly inadequate and not emptied often enough.

[Rough101]

They’re closing them round here, they’re spot on, it’s mainly trade waste, not household that’s getting dumped

[Unreal]

Robertb said:

Just the result of lazy people who think that someone else will sort out their mess. Britain in a nutshell.

If cardboard is wet its hard if not impossible to recycle.

On most similar facilities there is a sign which says not to leave items if the bins are full.

Someone needs to point that out to the people who run the tips I used to frequent on the south coast. The cardboard and waste paper containers were completely open to the elements. I believe they still are.

[Quhet]

Unreal said:

Robertb said:

Just the result of lazy people who think that someone else will sort out their mess. Britain in a nutshell.

If cardboard is wet its hard if not impossible to recycle.

On most similar facilities there is a sign which says not to leave items if the bins are full.

Someone needs to point that out to the people who run the tips I used to frequent on the south coast. The cardboard and waste paper containers were completely open to the elements. I believe they still are.

Yeah, surely that's bks. They'd need to turn the cardboard to pulp to recycle it anyway. I'd imagine that's how all the odd bits of tape and staples etc are sorted out of it too.

[havoc]

Unreal said:

I see the same every year at UK holiday resorts where bins are provided but are clearly inadequate and not emptied often enough.

Try taking the train anywhere. Bins on the trains are ridiculously small afterthoughts that overflow the minute someone tries to put a coffee cup in them, yet if you take your cup with you there is never a bin at a station (none I've been to - Midlands or SE or London) to put it in.

...I mean, what are you supposed to do? Carry an empty coffee cup all around the underground with you until you get to a street / get to your office?

[Unreal]

havoc said:

Unreal said:

I see the same every year at UK holiday resorts where bins are provided but are clearly inadequate and not emptied often enough.

Try taking the train anywhere. Bins on the trains are ridiculously small afterthoughts that overflow the minute someone tries to put a coffee cup in them, yet if you take your cup with you there is never a bin at a station (none I've been to - Midlands or SE or London) to put it in.

...I mean, what are you supposed to do? Carry an empty coffee cup all around the underground with you until you get to a street / get to your office?

I suppose you could urinate in it given the slim prospect of finding a functional public toilet on your travels.