St Martin’s says no to glass kerbside recycling
Wednesday 20th February 2013, 3:00PM GMT.
ST MARTIN’S douzaine has signalled its opposition to glass being included in overnight kerbside recycling.
It was the only parish approached by the Guernsey Press to speak out against the door-to-door collection of glass and suggested that the existing glass recycling banks should continue instead.
Other parishes were still waiting for more details to be released from the Public Services Department and some insisted an ‘all or nothing’ approach had to be taken for the scheme to succeed.
St Martin’s senior constable Graham Smale, pictured, said he did not see why glass recycling banks and kerbside collections could not work in unison.
‘Having glass collections at night could be quite noisy and we have already identified that as a problem,’ he said.
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To posh to have noise up there eh! well i am sorry but if the decision is to do kerbside imo make them , why do we (Guernsey ) have to be different.
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For goodness sake.
I hear my rubbish being picked up every week. It doesn’t bother me as it’s a part of life. It saves me a job.
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Hear Hear Oh Dear!
What a big fuss about nothing – stick some ear plugs in on rubbish collection day if it’s that big a deal.
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Why do the Douzaine’s, who were probably elected with the grand total of 5 votes, always have to stick their opinions in on things that are island-wide matters? The sooner we scrap them the better.
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Bunch of nimbys.
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This is so petty.
An island wide initiative is that, island wide.
The GP are meddling (again).
I hope that there will be no parish opt in/out of glass collections.
Just get on with getting kerb side recycling in place and people stop wasting time in dithering or putting personal choices in the mix.
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Perhaps the noisy glass collections will frighten off the antisocial eggers that seem to infest this parish!
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As a St Martins resident the lack of glass collection would only annoy me if the bins were removed again from the parish.
As a family of 5, we recycle everything, however whilst we have a large amount of cardboard, plastics, milk cartons and some tins, glass is the least of our waste. One coffee jar a week and a jam jar every month or so, I’d not be against taking these along to the banks while my other recyclables were collected. I don’t really know why everyone is making such a fuss about it, unless they’re all too hungover/over the limit to carry their boxes of wine bottles themselves.
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