Town set for bin system change
Saturday 13th September 2008, 11:50AM BST.
Bridgnorth residents will soon be saying goodbye to black rubbish bags and hello to wheelie bins as officials introduce a new two-weekly waste collection service.
The new scheme, already operating successfully elsewhere in the county despite initial grumbles about overflowing bins, will be phased in across the district from October 6.
It will see non-recyclable household waste collected one week and green waste and recyclable items, such as paper, glass and cans, collected the following week.
Householders will receive a calendar two weeks before the service is rolled out, to advise them of the changes and new collection days.
Black bags will be phased out within the next six months and replaced with wheelie bins, where possible. Compostable bags will also be introduced for garden waste which will be replaced with green wheelie bins, again where possible, early next year.
An event to explain the changes is being held at the Community Hall, in Severn Street, on October 2 between 5pm and 8pm.
Mark Foxall, from the Shropshire Waste Partnership, said: “The changes will make it easier for residents to access the service and easier for them to remember because collections will be on the same day of the week.
“While the recycling rate in Bridgnorth has increased considerably in recent years, not everyone benefits from the same level of service.
“We want to make recycling services easier to access and more convenient for all residents in the Bridgnorth area.”
For more details, call 0845 678 9009 or visit www.recycleforshropshire.com.
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It’s a REALLY Funny thing this …
I had this leaflet explaining these “NEW” arrangments through my door the other day
(in Bridgnorth)
And I HAD to read it twice …. and then again!
Becuase…We have had wheelie bins, both black and green ones, together with a black box and a blue box for quite some time now, and so has everybody else I know in Bridgnorth.
So what’s new???
What a damned farce all this recycling has become. (and the leaflet has gone in the paper recycling box)
When I was a lad in the fifties, in the suburbs of London, we had a DUSTBIN, which was a metal bin, that was emptied EVERY week, and all it ever contained was DUST! … as we never wasted anything.
Most fresh food was bought by my mum in an old carrier bag from the grocers,greengrocers, and fishmongers. (Bread and meat was delivered to the door)
.. NO wasteful packing then, and Sunday’s roast was Monday’s Shepherd’s pie, and Tuesday’s stock for the home made soup.
We didn’t have a refrigerator until the late fifties, but even before then NO food was wasted.
What little waste there was went on the compost heap, to provide excellent compost for the vegetable garden – which dad tended every year, well into the late seventies, when he retired.
Recycling? Don’t talk such rubbish!!
We were doing it FAR more effectively 60 years ago !!
There is nothing new under the sun, and I’m sick of all this holier than thou publicity from the authorities who seem to think this is all new. – Well .. it isn’t !!
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How refreshing the above comments are. The government should clamp down on the ones who package and fine them for excessive packaging. No more supermarket bags, thank you. Make a shopping bag from an old skirt, it works perfectly. And, like you say – who can afford to waste food anyway. Apple cores should be left in the hedges for the birds, in my opinion, not composted down in some vague attempt to grow organic, when the water we use to water our plants is full of chemicals – you canot get away from it, but there sure as hell are a lot of people making money out of this “new age” of so called ecofriendly crowd. Imagine a young mother having to keep her kids dirty nappies for 2 weeks until the “household” stuff is collected? Cant recycle them, can they? Nor can the elderly who would be reluctant to admit that they too would find it difficult to dispose of their items for personal hygiene. Forget the recyling and get back to basics – move the rubbish every week.
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