Read this and weep

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/is-newspaper-of-the-year-at-the-press-awards/s2/a548461/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276720/Daily-Mail-nominated-19-Oscars-Press-Awards.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490#axzz2KWlF633K

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So says a Sun reader ?

You must really miss the Dandy now that it has folded

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The best method of collection which I have written about several times on here, is if the collection team sort the recyclables into the different types at the road side as they collect. This would mean that householders would only need to separate into 1. Dry recyclable (paper, cardboard) 2. wet recyclables(tins, bottles, plastics) 3.compostables 4. Waste.

The advantage in this type of collection is that contamination is avoided and the quality of the recycling is the best and therefore a good price guaranteed at the market place. The downside is that compared to other collection systems its expensive because you need 5 or 6 people on the team and also collecting might cause traffic congestion. Price wise tho’, the cost is apparently clawed back by the fact that you get no rejections of the materials in the market place so in the long run, it actually works out as the cheapest method. (Sadly, Guernsey is not very good at looking long term so I doubt that they will do this. Also the mere suggestion that something might hold up the traffic…..well, can you imagine! )

Hope you appreciate my liberal use of paragraphs for the ease and pleasure of your reading experience!! ;-)

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I’m really not looking forward to having ten different bins in order to sort out my weekly half bag of rubbish

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275963/Recycling-Millions-tons-end-landfill-officials-admit-success-exaggerated.html#axzz2KWlF633K

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Recycling is going to a major part of our waste strategy and sadly, owing to the fact that there is a considerable percentage of our population either not recycling at all, or only recycling a fraction of what can be recycled, we are going to need several ‘recycling officers’ ensuring that the whole population engage with the strategy as intended.

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Are you sure that Marine & General didn’t fund that reclamation themselves ?

Agreed that It certainly doesn’t seem to have been put to any good use

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Well, time to get on my pushang to Town and make sure the North Beach car park is still there – opposite the Royal Hotel if I remember correctly and just up the way from Fruit Export ?

Blimey have I gone and used one of them paragraph things without realising it ?

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Millar and Baired are still owed money for the construction of St Sampsons marina.

We now owe a FORTUNE with the new airport runway – what year will this be paid off by I wonder by the time interest is paid?

GREAT IDEA! LETS BUILD A NEW BERTH THAT THE PUBLIC CAN ILL AFORD TO PAY FOR SO WE CAN SAFELY PUMP FUEL INTO FUEL TANKS LOCATED ON SHORE WHICH WOULD POSE A BIGGER THREAT TO THE PUBLIC IF IT ALL WENT UP IN SMOKE!

Sorry people of guernsey, but the people in charge here are the most useless, incompetant, unacountable bunch of subjects that Carlo M. Cipolla studied!!!!!

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Why don`t we send them dreaming senior civil servants down to Portlet harbour seeing you have more water to accommodate cruise liners.

You have the bunkers up there for our armed forces to spy on pirates coming ashore.

We will need Portlet harbour for our recycled rubbish to depart for Jersey and import the ash from Jersey to spread on your beautiful upper parish landscape.

ok i am dreaming but they say dreams come true.I think these present senior civil servants are just pie in the sky who cannot read what they write

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Kerbside recycling might not have been commonplace 30 years ago, but recycling certainly was. Every adult in the island could have worked out that on an island of finite size, you can’t expect to go on increasing waste generation ad infinitum without eventually hitting a brick wall. And yet most people seemed quite happy to increase the amount of waste they put out year on year without giving it any thought. When I returned to Guernsey in the early noughties I was amazed that there were no attempts to ask me to minimise the amount of waste I created. No attempts to make the retailers responsible or even aware of the waste they imported into the island. Everyone I asked or questioned about it made it clear that it wasn’t something that they had even thought about. Obviously with that attitude you are storing up costs for later.

And transport is the same. Everyone ‘wants’ to drive everywhere but precious few are willing to consider the eventual costs and problems that that will result in. Which ever group of Deputies that will have to sort out that hornets nest will be accused of being ‘the worst states ever’ when in reality we are all guilty of creating a problem through lack of long-term thinking.

I do agree tho’ that it is an obvious assumption that both harbour and airports should be receiving adequate maintenance. Not however the fault of the current deputies that it was not.

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