Take your rubbish home.

[Tashyboy]

Had an email today from the club, bottom line all bins with the exception of two bins at the 19th are being removed from the course. All members are asked to take there rubbish home with them. And if any rubbish is found on the course, pick it up and take that home as well. It is part of the clubs aim to be carbon neutral etc.
Anyone else gone down this route.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Had an email today from the club, bottom line all bins with the exception of two bins at the 19th are being removed from the course. All members are asked to take there rubbish home with them. And if any rubbish is found on the course, pick it up and take that home as well. It is part of the clubs aim to be carbon neutral etc.
Anyone else gone down this route.

No and given the amount of rubbish we seem to have post societies with beer bottles in he rough it seems a non-starter. I am sad to say I think members in general are quite selfish and I don't think some will do as requested. I would rather see more bins with the option for recycling, general waste, food etc

 

[Billysboots]

We removed several bins. Now people just leave their rubbish on the course.

I applaud any organisation in its attempt to be carbon neutral, but this sort of measure is all just a bit silly. And I say that because, whilst most golfers are sensible enough to take their rubbish home rather than dump it, many aren’t.

 

[upsidedown]

It's all part of new regulations that businesses now have to recycle at source so to speak ..Were investing in 4 bins on the course with compartments for rubbish and plastics/cardboard.
If when collected our rubbish contains recyclable products we will be liable to a fine .
Would love to think golfers will take their rubbish home in Tashy's case and it was muted at ours to go down that route but with multiple societies and visitors we are sticking with bins

 

[Bazz]

People don't use the bins when there's one right in front of them, the whole course will look like a Birmingham street if they removed the bins all together.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

How bizarre. Is this one of those unintended consequences moments?

Bins are good. Reality is, remove the bins and we will see litter left behind. Sad but true.

 

[pendodave]

How bizarre. Is this one of those unintended consequences moments?

Bins are good. Reality is, remove the bins and we will see litter left behind. Sad but true.

In Japan there are pretty much no public bins but also no litter...

 

[PJ87]

How does removing the bins help go carbon neutral? The green keepers go around on their gas guzzlers all day. Would add nothing collecting the bins as they go

 

[upsidedown]

How does removing the bins help go carbon neutral? The green keepers go around on their gas guzzlers all day. Would add nothing collecting the bins as they go

Modern mowers are extremely fuel efficient these days and big push for electric in the industry although that will take a while for a big uptake

 

[PJ87]

Modern mowers are extremely fuel efficient these days and big push for electric in the industry although that will take a while for a big uptake

At the same time they can collect the bins as they are out and about as it is, regardless of how they are powered

 

[Lord Tyrion]

In Japan there are pretty much no public bins but also no litter...

I'm guessing there is a cultural history to that, very impressive too. The reality is, the UK is not the same. Taking your litter with you was ingrained into me as a kid but there is plenty of evidence around us all to show too many people don't do the same.

There are also times when it is impractical to constantly carry rubbish around with you. Having bins for people to use is a good thing, imo.

 

[SteveW86]

Modern mowers are extremely fuel efficient these days and big push for electric in the industry although that will take a while for a big uptake

How many clubs do you think have “modern mowers”, I imagine a lot of clubs are still running quite old equipment

 

[Oddsocks]

Yet nothing is ever done about the thousands of balls that are dumped instead of recycled…. Go figure.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

We have bins around the course fir rubbish and recycling, green staff empty them - don’t really see any rubbish around the place

 

[PJ87]

Yet nothing is ever done about the thousands of balls that are dumped instead of recycled…. Go figure.

Isnt that why the new ball changes will address that with being biodegradable

 

[Oddsocks]

Isnt that why the new ball changes will address that with being biodegradable

Doesn’t address the billions still out there. I still cannot believe that there isn’t a viable way to recycle balls

 

[upsidedown]

At the same time they can collect the bins as they are out and about as it is, regardless of how they are powered

No they can't as it would be unsafe to operate them and not productive ,that is why they have utility vehicles to collect rubbish when they are on other duties

 

[rulefan]

We have bins near our teeing areas. The only things that don't seem to go in them are broken tee pegs

 

[upsidedown]

How many clubs do you think have “modern mowers”, I imagine a lot of clubs are still running quite old equipment

I'd say more than you think ,any mower within the last 10 years will be pretty fuel efficient and reel mowers need replacing quite often , certainly within 10 years, rotary mowers a bit longer .
We aim to replace all reel mowers every 5 years

 

[GreiginFife]

We have 3 bins (plastic, paper and general) on every other hole from the third tee.