Your thoughts on Council rules and charges.

[Zebra]

I've recently moved into an area which is a Sheffield postcode but tragically has Rotherham Council as it's borough council.

 

OUr bin collections are every 2 weeks for the black bin, and the alternating 2 weeks for the green bin and blue box (tins bottles and textiles). We are meant to have a blue bag too but they haven't bothered to send one despite lots of calls about it.

We aren't managing with fortnightly collections, our twins nappies take almost the whole bin after two weeks.

OUr neighbours are struggling with one child and they have to take rubbish to the tip.

If councils are claiming to be greener - how is is fair that we have to drive tothe tip and use fuel to get rid of the rubbish they won't deal with?

Furthermore, the council tax didn't go down whent he refuse collections did - again, how is that ok?

They refuse to collection PET plastics because it isn't financially economical, yet they expect me to drive to a supermarket in Rotherham and dispose of them (using my fuel and expenses).

 

 

Then, to add insult to injury, they have the nerve to raise council tax by 4.7 percent, or at least they are about to.

 

I DESPISE the control councils have, and the hypocrisy.

 

Anymore opinions or advice here?

(I don't want lectures on making more of an effort to recycle - I do plenty).

[melthebell]

yeah what gets me about recycling is.........they order you to recycle.........but only certain plastics or certain cans.

not this this and this

 

cos it costs too much..............yet the council tax goes up and up and up and they do less and less and less

[Zebra]

Yep, it would really help us to reduce things a bit if they decided that the green issue is actually important and take the PET bottles. But since it's actually about money, the value of the environment is reduced because the council don't like it. Pillocks.

[shoeshine]

Well, unless you change your name to Geoff and start paying to run this forum, tough break. You're getting it.

 

Just so you know "Whodunnit!" I've reported your post.

[Zebra]

Hmm, intriguingly, it appears if I pray 5 times a day at home for a certain number of days, I can declare my home as mosque and not pay council tax.

Or I can be a traveller (not sure how if I have a house) and not pay then either.

How odd!

[max]

MOD: Please take your little tiffs to chat or pm. Thanks.

[algy]

I always take my bottles and jars to the recycling bin, and carefully put them in the right bins according to colour. So the other week the lorry was there collecting them, and tipping them all into the same hopper, regardless of colour. So why do we bother? I've also been told that the collection of bottles from the pubs and bars in town is certainly not sorted, and goes straight to landfill. Can anyone confirm that?

[Strix]

I for one believe the 'solution' to the generation of rubbish, and how it's disposal is paid for lies in taxing the damned stuff as it rolls of the production line, so the goods manufacturer has a financial decision to make as do consumers - I bet a heck of a lot of our packaging would suddenly become reusable if that were the case (recycling is just a sticking plaster on a gaping wound in my book)

 

As nappies have been identified as the biggest problem in landfill (and you've identified them as the 'problem' in your bin Zebra ), would terry nappies not be an viable alternative? I know everything is so much more hassle with twice as much of anything to deal with, and that if anybody has looked into sensible alternatives it's going to be you....

[Zebra]

I tried washables and I wasn't managing with them at all. Wasted a load of money buying them then not using them after 2 weeks of hell on earth.

I'm hoping we'll potty train the girls this summer so it would be less of an issue then but I'd quite like anoher child and twins is fairly likely again!

I would definitely prefer the idea of less packaging on supermarket goods, we certainly don't need it and it drives me mad stripping it all off, folding it all as small and flat as I can to go in one of the various bins. I'd happily buy bread in paper but I don't like buying the bakery fresh bread when everyone else has been meddling with it so I generally buy the plastic wrapped stuff.

Fruit and veg could be bought in paper bags.

Tinned items could be sold in waxed card, like those soup cartons.

It's the rigid plastics that I hate most.

[cgksheff]

I would definitely prefer the idea of less packaging on supermarket goods, we certainly don't need it and it drives me mad stripping it all off, folding it all as small and flat as I can to go in one of the various bins. ...... It's the rigid plastics that I hate most.

 

Start removing it and leaving it in the supermarkets.

 

If more people did this, they'd soon get the message.