Bring banks fill as soon as they are emptied
Thursday 30th December 2010, 2:29PM GMT.
Left to right, seven-year-old Rocco Guilbert, Martyn Guilbert and Jamie Thompson recycling about 1,000 bottles and other material at Chouet. (Pictures by Steve Sarre, 1072995)
ISLANDERS were out in force yesterday doing their post-Christmas recycling.
Although bring banks have been emptied daily since Monday, some have been full again within two hours.
‘I don’t recall bins being full for three days in succession in past years,’ said Mayside Recycling operations director Liam Bourgaize.
Statistics in terms of weight could be deceiving as many of the bins were full of wrapping paper, which tended to take up more space but did not weigh as much as newspapers or magazines.
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Fantastic that so many people are now recycling what they can and thus helping the community to reduce the pressure on Mont Cuet. However, it is still so sad to walk through town and see so many black bags out on the pavements, that are bursting with material that should be in the recycling bins.
Having a voluntary recycling system is all well and good, but we will never get the high recycling rates that we need while we collect garbage in such a way that encourages people to put all their waste out for the bin men.
Look at the photos on this link, taken last week in St Peter Port.
http://www.sustainableguernsey.info/blog/2010/12/too-much-recyclable-material-is-going-to-the-mont-cuet-landfill/
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Rosie – interesting link; I can’t really add any more to what “Jo” posted in the comments section.
A kerbside recycling scheme is the only answer if Guernsey is serious about increasing recycling levels.
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“He said he was Latvian and seven or eight people lived in the house.” Kinda explains it really.
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Paul.
This is the question the survey asked…”Would you be prepared to pay for your recycling to be collected, and if so how much would you be prepared to pay per month?”
As you can see, the inference is that the cost would be an extra cost on top of everything you already pay to have your waste collected. There can surely be no suprise that the majority of people said ‘no’ to that. We must be careful that no-body now uses that as an excuse not to introduce kerbside collection of recyclates,,,, which we all need to push for.
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