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As threatened we are officially on a 3 week landfill wheelie bin collection from now, recycling wheelie bin remains at 2 weekly. That's all the kerbside collection we get in Argyll and Bute council area. Three week uplift for landfill to me feels unreasonable, already do not quite manage on 2 weekly, I have to take landfill rubbish bags by car to the recycling centre 2 miles out of town sometimes. Nowt we can do about it but where does this trend end? We needs some service back for our council tax.
I think I'm better than average for rubbish production, family of 4 with a dog and 2 cats. No one deliberately produces more rubbish, it just is what it is. I do think about it and recycle all I can per the rules.
One 'solution' offered is that we should all compost our food waste, I don't vegetable garden as such so I have no real use for compost or have any desire to have a stinky green cone thing out the back and being at the sea don't want to encourage gulls in with an open compost heap. With a dog in house there isn't that much food waste anyway.
The recycling collection does not include glass which I can't understand, ok for me as I drive so can take glass to bottle banks at Tesco or the recycling centre but for non drivers i.e. the elderly they cannot do that with no council solution offered so I suspect it gets lost in the landfill. Most other councils uplift glass dont they?
Argyll and Bute council are stretched financially, combo of low population and a large awkward geographic area including many islands, council tax freeze on top of past overspends and bad management (councils are famed for it allegedly
).
Whole situation feels a bit hopeless, I live in a very modest house and its graded band F based on 1991 property values, other local authorities would have it D by comparison, feels like a scam to claim more than they should. Would pay more council tax for a better service but with mortgages and cost of living so high there's not much leeway for that.
Anyone else feel there council is not meeting a basic standard of service, in the name of so called environmental measures that are really just cost saving measures? My solution will be taking black landfill bags myself to the council recycling skips at my expense more often, not a problem, but just makes me think even less of my council.
In the 80s you just put all your rubbish out every week presented in any fashion you liked and the guys took it all away, kitchen sinks, old bikes whatever, I know we do things better nowadays and don't want to sound like Donald Trump on climate change' but it wasn't half easier back then.
My multi fuel stove may now be getting stuff in it it shouldn't but needs must. Seriously thinking about soaking all paper and cardboad then making briquettes for the stove from it.
Interested to see how the level of fly tipping goes from now, not optimistic.
Will public services sector, cut to ribbons by successive governments, ever function like they used to again in this country.......sigh?
I think I'm better than average for rubbish production, family of 4 with a dog and 2 cats. No one deliberately produces more rubbish, it just is what it is. I do think about it and recycle all I can per the rules.
One 'solution' offered is that we should all compost our food waste, I don't vegetable garden as such so I have no real use for compost or have any desire to have a stinky green cone thing out the back and being at the sea don't want to encourage gulls in with an open compost heap. With a dog in house there isn't that much food waste anyway.
The recycling collection does not include glass which I can't understand, ok for me as I drive so can take glass to bottle banks at Tesco or the recycling centre but for non drivers i.e. the elderly they cannot do that with no council solution offered so I suspect it gets lost in the landfill. Most other councils uplift glass dont they?
Argyll and Bute council are stretched financially, combo of low population and a large awkward geographic area including many islands, council tax freeze on top of past overspends and bad management (councils are famed for it allegedly
).Whole situation feels a bit hopeless, I live in a very modest house and its graded band F based on 1991 property values, other local authorities would have it D by comparison, feels like a scam to claim more than they should. Would pay more council tax for a better service but with mortgages and cost of living so high there's not much leeway for that.
Anyone else feel there council is not meeting a basic standard of service, in the name of so called environmental measures that are really just cost saving measures? My solution will be taking black landfill bags myself to the council recycling skips at my expense more often, not a problem, but just makes me think even less of my council.
In the 80s you just put all your rubbish out every week presented in any fashion you liked and the guys took it all away, kitchen sinks, old bikes whatever, I know we do things better nowadays and don't want to sound like Donald Trump on climate change' but it wasn't half easier back then.
My multi fuel stove may now be getting stuff in it it shouldn't but needs must. Seriously thinking about soaking all paper and cardboad then making briquettes for the stove from it.
Interested to see how the level of fly tipping goes from now, not optimistic.
Will public services sector, cut to ribbons by successive governments, ever function like they used to again in this country.......sigh?
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