| Comment | There are so many inconsistencies. Cardboard goes in blue kerbside bins with mixed recycling. But a seperate skip at Polmadie. But then the crusher isn’t working so you are to put it in the one that’s marked household waste no cardboard. Your tetrapack ? Drive up there, around the roundabout, past the smashed up fridges, past the glass recycling and look for the unlabelled odd shaped box on the left.
Is it any wonder recycling levels are so criminally low ?
For literally years recycling bins at my home have been used for general waste by neighbours / passers by too lazy to walk the extra 4ft to get to the steel bins. The council’s answer - it’s on private land, not our problem. The factors answer - we would need approval of the majority of the 120 flat owners to modify the bin areas (i.e. bugger off).
So in short all our recycling bins (6 overflowing blue bins weekly) go into landfill as contaminated, my recycling goes in my petrol car to go into the recycling centre when I’m next passing, and all those with the power to make a change do not.
Personally I would place a statutory obligation on councils to rectify refuse issues (lack of bins etc etc) within a couple of days, and an obligation on residents as to what they put in their own bins. |
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