Return to weekly bin collections unlikely (From York Press)
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Return to weekly bin collections unlikely
9:29am Wednesday 14th March 2012 in Eco info
CITY of York Council has decided not to apply for Government money to restore weekly rubbish collections.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has made £250 million available in grants to local authorities guaranteeing to retain or reinstate weekly waste collections for at least five years, and demonstrating the potential to increase recycling rates.
But York’s Coun Dafydd Williams, said: “When money is tight, the Government shouldn’t be trying to find ways to cost the taxpayer more money, which this policy would do, particularly when so much effort has gone into encouraging recycling and reduction in waste going to landfill over a number of years.”
He said more cynical people might think the Government wanted more waste so it could get more income through landfill taxes.
“But we have discounted a policy of adding to landfill as irresponsible and a huge backward step. The system of alternate weekly collections works very well in York”.
Comments(16)
Levelhead
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10:04am Wed 14 Mar 12
franthom
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10:10am Wed 14 Mar 12
ISeeEverything
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10:21am Wed 14 Mar 12
Nthooze
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11:04am Wed 14 Mar 12
Jazzper
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1:13pm Wed 14 Mar 12
Nthooze wrote:No need to worry....the council will everything 'spick and span' ready for Lizzies visit !!
I live in Micklegate and from the middle of the first week after a collection, to the end of the second week there are bags and bags piled high. What happens when the Queen visits Micklegate on April 5 along with 10,000 visitors and her car has to be diverted due to impassable rubbish heaps?
powerwatt
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1:52pm Wed 14 Mar 12
yorkborn66
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2:56pm Wed 14 Mar 12
Of course it does if you like to see rubbish piled up everywhere, stinking in summer. Plastic and cardboard and paper littering the streets on recycle day, caused by wind or council operatives just dropping it on the floor.
Weekly bin collections and recycling every 2 weeks.
It’s the same amount of rubbish to landfill, but at least it will stop rubbish piling up and stinking.
Surely it’s not much to ask from council taxpayers, which are seeing a rise in council tax bills and reductions in services and amenities.
When York Council waste vast amounts of money on fruitless schemes, consultation fees, disproportionate salaries and gross incompetence from their decision makers, this appears to be another 2 fingers to the residents who pay their wages.
Pedro
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3:44pm Wed 14 Mar 12
stealerswheel
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4:14pm Wed 14 Mar 12
stealerswheel
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4:14pm Wed 14 Mar 12
meme
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4:56pm Wed 14 Mar 12
These people have forgotten who pays them to work/live..REMINDER>
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US; the residents and its not your money or decision to take You should ask us. If you dont then we should get rid of you
MrsDingledongle
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5:53pm Wed 14 Mar 12
pedalling paul
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6:13pm Wed 14 Mar 12
MrsDingledongle wrote:Hear hear. Reversion to weekly collection would dilute the present incentive to recycle.
I'm glad. There's no need for weekly collections if recycling is managed diligently.
yorkborn66
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8:30pm Thu 15 Mar 12
MrsDingledongle wrote:Well I am pleased you think like this, but what about the rest of the council tax payers in York, that have seen essential services reduced, and their council tax bills rise. Is it not a step in the wrong direction to have waste sat around for two weeks? . Recycling will happen regardless, you only have to look at other counties that still have weekly collections and their recycle rates are better per head of population than York. Don’t believe this? , Google it, a wonderful fact finder. Try Essex areas first .
I'm glad. There's no need for weekly collections if recycling is managed diligently.
Paul Hu
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11:06am Fri 16 Mar 12
In other countries they have daily collections of Waste and their streets are kept clean of waste. This is a typical response from a Council that has as little care for the words of the Prime Minister as was stated in the General Election about restoring weekly collections. Even Mr E Pickles MP has made it pretty plain that restoring weekly collections is a must for a Civilised Society.
Now we suppose that the issue will be that Yorkshire City Council and North Yorkshire County Council will press ahead with the Allerton Incinerator project despite the fact that another plant is being built less than 20 miles aweay at South Milford in the Maltings Organic Treatment Facility by Mytum and Selby (a good Yorkshire Company that has always sought to give proper service in Waste Collection and Recycling) and their Partners to receive over 500,000 tonnes per year of Waste to make the Biofuels Ethanol for transport. This project we understand will cost less than £85 Million for the same quantity of waste that the Allerton Incinerator is expected (not even finalised) to cost and it has already got planning permission. We do not obviously need the Allerton Incineration project when this project by Mytum and Selby sits waiting to go ahead and can take the wastes from here for less than. If we want to see benefits for the Council Tax Payers we need companies like Mytum and Selby and not Amey/Crespa.
roskoboskovic says...
10:00am Wed 14 Mar 12