No room at the bin – sites struggle with recycling rise
Wednesday 14th July 2010, 2:29PM BST.
Marion Batiste finds space to do her recycling at Vazon yesterday. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0997402)
BRING-bank sites are struggling to cope with the amount islanders are now recycling, Public Services has admitted.
The department is asking people to help reduce litter and other mess at local sites after complaints about the state of the Vazon recycling area this weekend, which was overflowing with many recyclables dumped on the ground.
Public Services recycling officer Tina Norman-Ross appealed to the public to help solve the problem.
‘The current bring-bank sites are in many ways a victim of their own success,’ she said.
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Public Services should be cleaning up the mess, it’s not up to the recyclers. They make a lot of money from people recycling, so should put some of that money back in and clean up the areas.
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I am totally amazed at the comments by Public Services – how can they not have known that there would be an additional strain put on the Vazon bins when the Cobo ones have been inaccessible for a while now (although I do not condone so-called ‘recyclers’ effectively fly-tipping behind the Vazon bins – if they are full and you don’t have time to go to another site then take them home – yes it is a temporary inconvenience but better than leaving rubbish lying around that will affect wildlife/get blown everywhere etc).
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Just dumping stuff by the bins is totally unacceptable, but…
if having to lug it all up to the recycling bins wasn’t enough, now we have to wander around trying to actually find some space in the overfilled to overflowing bins…and do what, exactly, to ‘help solve the problem’…
compensate for PS’s inability to keep up with the increased demand by trekking off around the island to to find space in other equally full to overflowing bins elsewhere, or take it all home again….?
PS Dept. FAIL. Quelle surprise.
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Some jobsworth is being paid circa 30K to manage this
Do they even put phone numbers at the sites so that the public can alert the company when the bins are full ?
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This is just one of the reasons why we should have kerbside recycling.
GG…. I think that you will find that the bring banks are not overall an income generator…. they cost us money. The sale of recyclates off-sets that cost but does not cover it 100%.
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Ok here is a crazy idea, why not empty them more often?
I tryed recycling but i would end up driving all over the island trying to find bins that werent over flowing. Im sure all that needles driving is good for the environment (NOT.) In the end i had it in my car for days and i gave up and left it by the bins.
How is it upto us to sort out this problem, last time i looked this wasnt my 9-5 job. Where my mum lives in the USA a poor part of the country they have FREE curbside recycling.
Also did you know that in parts of England the more you recyle you can be rewarded with gift vouchers ect.
Guernsey being backards and all be more likly to make us pay to recyle and fine us if we dont.
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