Petition calls for Shropshire Council to reinstate weekly bin services
Wednesday 21st December 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
A new online e-petition calling for Shropshire Council to reinstate weekly bin collections has been launched – with residents claiming extra cardboard is to blame for the request.
Shropshire resident Carl Bates who has set up the e-petition on Shropshire Council’s website said weekly bin collections were needed due to large amounts of cardboard which were now clogging up general waste bins.
Mr Bates says it follows the council’s decision to axe kerbside cardboard collections.
The petition comes just days after Shropshire Council cabinet members ruled not to overturn a decision to scrap the collections.
The petition says: “We, the undersigned, petition the council to bring back weekly general waste collections.
“After the decision to scrap collecting cardboard, as it can no longer be composted, and then failing to promptly come up with an alternative solution to recycling cardboard. We now want our weekly general waste bin collections re-instated.
“Cardboard makes up a large amount of our waste and there is not enough room in our bins for it if they are only collected fortnightly. Veolia and the council have been advising people to take cardboard to the recycling centre, but they seem to forget that not everybody drives.”
The petition currently has 20 signatures. Under council rules, a debate on any issue contained in a petition to the authority is automatically triggered after 1,000 signatures are collected.
More than 130,000 homes in the county are now banned from putting cardboard in garden waste bins.
A previous e-petition calling for the collections to be reinstated by Shropshire resident Patrick Cosgrove was signed by more than 1,300 people – forcing a council debate.
But last week the council ruled not to overturn a decision to scrap kerbside cardboard collections by 44 votes to 19.
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Im very pleased that Shropshire Star have wrote an article on the petition ive started. I would obviously prefere the council and Veolia to recycle our cardboard but if thats not possible, our general waste bins will need to be emptied weekly.
The Government is trying to encourage local councils to bring back weekly bin collections so i think this is a service that all of us as local tax payers are entitled to.
If you have not done so already, please sign this petition, and maybe just maybe the Council will listen to us this time.
http://petitions.shropshire.gov.uk/consult.ti/system/viewPetition?petitionid=4394&showall=Y
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I could not beleive it when i heard that they were stopping collecting our cardboard in our green bin as most of our household waste is cardboard.
I dont drive, and there is no suitable public transport links to the battlefield recycling centre, and even if there was a bus service, do the council really expect me to cart a load of cardboard on a bus along with my 2 year old child, and pay £3.60 in bus fayres for the privilege.
If they cant collect our cardboard for recycling then they must collect our bins weekly.
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