Some of you might remember this debacle from August 2004 and January 2005. Two months down the line the residents are still waiting for something to happen and I had a meeting on Saturday with a very unhappy resident.
What is the future of the recycling sites in residential areas? Technically with the advent of doorstep glass collections one would have thought the usage would decline. But even standing there on Saturday afternoon for fifteen minutes it was clear they are also being used for commercial dumping, especially restaurants disposing of bottles.
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Is that a new photo of the recycling site Kevin or one from as couple of months ago? Could you please elaborate on restaurants recycling glass bottles please? This is this regarded as a problem is it? Are you suggesting that small businesses would be better not recycling?
Photo from January as it mentions in the entry.
Of course businesses should recycle just not sure they should be filling domestic recycling sites with them. They should either arrange collection or take them to the central recycling site at Villiers Road
Dear Anonymous - are you blind? Do you honestly think Kevin was suggesting restaurants shouldn't recycle?
The facility at Raeburn is there to allow residents to recycle. I use it frequently myself, and, although it has a great position, it is always getting messed up just like the photograph above and so preventing residents from using it.
The point about restaurants and commercial use is that there are other ways for businesses to recycle. When they use residential sites they overload them and prevent residents from using them.
Residential sites are not there to save businesses a few bucks - if recycling is your real concern (and not politics) then maybe you should think about improving the schemes for businesses, but not at the expense of us residents.
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