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Shropshire plastic bottle recycling banks to go
Thursday 29th December 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
Shropshire residents will no longer be able to dispose of plastic bottles at recycling banks from the new year, it was revealed today. Waste firm Veolia will begin removing the recycling banks from January 9.
It said the decision had been taken following the rolling-out of kerbside plastic collections to all parts of the county.
Sara Brown, policy and development manager at Shropshire Council, said some banks had already been removed where there was ‘a need to make space for the new cardboard recycling banks’.
She said: “They are being removed because they were only ever intended as a temporary arrangement.”
But the decision has angered some, who claim it has caused more confusion following the axing of kerbside cardboard collections.
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Society needs to decide what to do about it’s future on this planet and whether it thinks it even has one. Sort it…you slackers
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This is ridiculous !
I take all my normal recycling stuff to the recycling banks as I have nowhere dry to store the recycling boxes. If I left them outside it would have to be in the back garden then I would have to carry them through the house for collection. Which in wet weather would cause me extra work cleaning up the mess. They should make curb collection for cardboard waste like other local authorities do.
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hmmmmmm… plastic…. burns well…
shropshire wants to build an incinerator and doesnt have enough waste to justify it….
suspicious me thinks…
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Yes Pammy that’s how I see it too – helping Veolia justify their case for the incinerator and avoiding having to find another way to resume cardboard collection. The remaining 25 years of their contract are going to be interesting – just see what they can get away with!
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This should not increase the quantity of waste collected, however, it should increase the quantity of waste collected that can be recycled. Surely that is a very laudable aim? Or are you all too cynical to hope that our Council is trying to do an efficient job with waste collection and recycling?
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errrr….so why is it being collected at the kerbside then?….for recycling…
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they only collect bottles which are less than a third of all household plastics, they dont collect pots, tubs, trays and film which is the MAJORITY of it, but the skips were run by recresco a national company who recycle all mixed plastics together, now they have gone people can still recycle bottles at home but all the other (majority) plastic has to go in the rubbish bin ( to go for landfill)
not good for the planet or the taxpayer
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more cuts to frontline services. which part of the word front line do the tories not understand, there is a vast expensive management structure in place at shirehall there are multiple fat cat contractors creaming profits off the public purse there are rediculous building projects like that darwins snail going ahead and yet they are attacking a basic service which people use, on top of the ludlow food waste, the community skip service and the cardboard collections this is another cut to a public service which real people use
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I agree totally Keith lets hope in 2013 when this joke of a council are up people will remember all the bad decissions they have made will come to haunt them.
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Yet again the lazy collectors employed by Veolia couldn’t be bothered collecting my recycling Thursday morning in Wem. Nor can they be bothered collecting plastic bottles that have blown across the roads, or return recycling containers to the kerbside where they got them from.
I, yet again, end up taking recycling to the the central cat park collecting bins in Wem, and discover plastic is no longer collected.
Clearly either Veollia or their lazy employees prefer all waste to go to landfill, or perhaps the new incinerator?
I shall certainly not be driving across Wem or to the council tip again, everything is now going in the black bin.
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Cat park ???? recycling moggies now are they ?
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Well done.
Big thumbs little keys.
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Pathetic comment on a serious issue
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this is a patten often repeated, we never had any problems in 20 years with SABC since veolia took over my bins been missed on 3 separate occasions and recycling left behind too, they are useless
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my understanding is that this plastic skip system is run for charity by disabled people so this is another example of cuts to the big society and voluntary sector which has really suffered under the tories yet they claim they want more of this kind of system, the people employed to sort the plastics will be unable to get other meaningful work and will end up in a care home all day instead, ironically this is therefore going to cost the public sector more, talk about robbing from peter to pay paul it is better for them to spend their day working even if it is sorting through plastics
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surely the problem here is that they only collect plastic bottles but the skips could accept tubs and pots and stuff which is the majority of household plastics. they only do half a job. its not good enough. if they did a proper collection of all plastics then sure they could argue the skips arent needed but they dont so why take away my only service for tubs and pots?
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Telford and Wrekin Council provides an orange net for plastics recycling.
Bottles(water,sauce,shampoo,bleach,loo clean, pump-spray,laundry,fabric conditioner etc etc),all grist to the mill.
The only plastics rejected are black ready meal containers.
The net is always bulging after 2 weeks. Lotta landfill used to go in my wheelie. !!!!
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thats the problem towbar yet again labour run telford is light years ahead of the shropshire council system. shropshire only collect bottles, these skips were provided to deal with the remainder of the plastics, bags, tub,s trays etc which is atleast half if not 75% of all plastics, so they were a fundamental part of the ‘deal’ struck with the taxpayer which only bottles were collected but the rest could go to the supermarket skips
telford are loads better, they use the same trucks yet they can fit ALL plastics and cardboard on them! and they’re cheaper too!
shropshire councilss recycling service has gone backwards since privatisation
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agreed, how can telford only 12 miles away get such a better service with the same vehicles and same if not lower levels of resourcing, perhaps because they are not privatised with veolia???
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Not that I am political, but the plastic waste system in Telford was introduced when we were under a Conservative Council…
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when I recently emailed Veolia concerning why we couldn’t have a 3 wheelie bin system like my mum has in warwickshire I was told it’s too expensive to sort. Her recycling wheelie bin takes ALL recycling including glass, metal, paper, cardboard, all types of plastic as long as it has ‘triangle’ logo.
Instead of which we loose our cardboard collection service and gain a plastic one which is so narrowly acceptable to be useless in reducing black bin rubbish amounts
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i live in flats in sundorne and we dont have any recycling collections in place at all, so without recycling centres we have to bin everything
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having consienciously gotten into the habit of cleansing and sorting my yoghurt pots for the past few years i find this a very regressive decision. to claim these installations were “temporary” when they were put in years ago by former district councils is nonsense
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grey bin it is then…
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Which costs the council in fines, sorry taxes! The council is charged for every tonne they put in landfill.
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everyone slags off the council but they are only trying to save our money! as a taxpayer i would like to see more cut because i would rather have the money for myself for bills and stuff, food even, times are tough, so lets cut council tax please even if services have to go, i dont use them so i dont care
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The Council have nothing to do with ‘saving money’ in this instance. The only people to benefit are Veolia who will make more profit. Do you really think that Veolia has the aim of reducing cost to the Council? If they did they would be going against all their shareholders.
Council tax charges will not change due to a decision within Veolia.
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im sorry but this is “stretching the truth” to breaking point, this is just not right to say there is no space for cardboard and plastic together, look at the size of some of these car parks in castlefields we have about 2 acres of car park so the reason of no space its not valid they are using it as a smoke screen or worse than that i think they are being economical with the truth
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An email from our councillor tells me our plastic bottle bank is being removed and will NOT be replaced with a cardboard recycling bin, I will be burning my cardboard.
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As they also no longer collect cardboard, may I suggest the solution…a bottle rocket.
Obviously, you will need to find something other than cardboard to create a weighted nose cone, but I understand many of our beauty spots are be-spoiled with animal detritus which can be collected free of charge and put in a cardboard nose cone construction.
At this point you will need to consider where you wish to launch your bottle rocket, although Abbey Foregate could be considered an ideal spot.
An educational project for children.
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Town centre apartments have no kerbside collection for plastic or cardboard.
Surely it makes sense to retain and expand kerbside collection for card board and ALL plastics.
Does anyone know what happens to these items as regards recycling v landfill.?
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Pretty sure it all goes to china for recycling
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shropshire council, epic fail
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Yet another cut by the Tory run Shropshire Council. Just who is saving money here, the council tax payer who will have to pay extra for thousands of tonnes of plastics to go into landfill sites or the french owned firm veolia who get paid to run the skips and then have a conflicted interest in that they get paid to run the landfill sites as well. There is no incentive for them to recycle if they can make a better margin on disposal
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Absolute B^&! S&*% is there not enough space on the car park at Tescos for both cardboard and plastics skips, there is about 500 car parking spaces there untouched and ample spare space around the existing bins
To double check I called in and checked with the manager at tesco and she assured me “there’s plenty of space” and “it wasnt our decision it was the councils” and that “they are more than happy for more recycling containers to go there”
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Whats the fuss? why dont you just put it in your net / bag / box ?
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big deal
i dont use them so i dont care
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Ha!!! While on holiday I noticed that Veola are hosting an ‘environmental’ wildlife photography exhibition at the Eden Project. I suspect the pictures are not of seagulls over landfil:)
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im pretty sure i read here that telford did this just last year, if they collect them why bother having skip sites? you could say the same for paper, cans and glass too, i personally never use these sites it all goes in the collection boxes which is preferable / easier to use any how
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Where can i get a bigger grey bin?
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clearly with all the cuts to recycling a weekly bin collection is now needed, they have stopped collecting cardboard, clothing, batteries and now plastic tubs and pots as part of the privatisation, i reckon thats about half a bins worht of stuff each fortnight, i now have no space in my black bin so this will have to be done weekly
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I have started a petition to the council to bring back weekly bin collections.
http://petitions.shropshire.gov.uk/consult.ti/system/viewPetition?petitionid=4394
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might as well do away with the lot really, i cant be bothered with recyclign anymore, if they dont care why should we?
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in telford they are closing the whole newport recycling centre
it does seem recycling is a bit last year and no longer a priority for government
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so what are we supposed to do with the plastics which veolia wont collect now then?
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so what are we supposed to do with the plastics which veolia wont collect now then?????
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now they are not doing the recycling out of the goodness of there own hearts it is a business and the fact is in the last two months the price of card has fallen almost 50% and the price of fuel to carry very light plastic will not make it attractive to collectors for the return.
yes they should carry on providing the service but it isnt really your council giving that service anymore its business men and women.
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Great, I use these regularly as I live in a flat with no storage for anything other then the standard refuse bins. Thanks to this decision I will now be disposing of plastic in the regular bin. Thank you Shropshire council for saving me the effort from this month.
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