dont want to use food caddy

kinger101

If heard of them refusing to collect as well. In fact, there's a similar thread on here where this is happening in a block of flats and the freeholder has had to arrange private collections.

bitten_by_cutie

kinger101 wrote: »

If heard of them refusing to collect as well. In fact, there's a similar thread on here where this is happening in a block of flats and the freeholder has had to arrange private collections.

oh really, for what reason?

personally, if they checked mine, they would find very little food waste wise, but was just curious, given I keep getting caddy leaflets, no threats, just 'how to use' guides.

Davesnave

bitten_by_cutie wrote: »

oh is god a he?

Of course he is. Look, haven't you seen all the pictures in the books they used to print before people started calling him funny names, like Allah? He's up in the clouds: big beard, big hands and definitely white European.

But seriously, I've some sympathy for people who are inconvenienced when councils change the rules. It takes time for for new systems to shake down, and they do cause difficulties, no matter how well-intentioned they are.

As I've already highlighted, we'll have a serious issue where I live if people actually obey the rules. There would be 15 blue caddies flying about in the dark tomorrow morning, when wind speeds are forecast to exceed 60mph, never mind all the plastic recycling that currently is strewn down the roadside most weeks when it's windy.

And all this is because the council, in their wisdom, decreed from on high that they could no longer do as they once did and collect from a private road.

booksurr

Lunchbox wrote: »

S.46 Environmental Protection Act 1990.

G_M wrote: »

Other than by looking, how will the council know the law is not being complied with? I doubt they need a search warrant (though happy to be corrected on this point!)

I stand corrected :doh:

however, in the 4 years that our council have had a caddy system I have never once used it, nor has anyone ever questioned that fact. Or for that mater has anyone ever suggested there was a law saying I "have to" use the caddy. (I do now have a nice collection of the cornstarch bags they issue each year for lining it with )

My waste goes in the black bin and is collected once per fortnight as that is what my tax pays for. Maintaining hygiene within the house is a simple matter of putting things out daily and doing washing up afterwards. What goes in the bin stays in the bin for 2 weeks until collected.

Nor have I caught any diseases yet from my regime!

marksoton

bitten_by_cutie wrote: »

glad you speak for everyone on forum.....

I'd like to think most sane people wouldn't give a t055 what happens to a strangers food waste....

jennifernil

We have the large and small food waste caddies, small liners are provided free, but we have never used them as we don't have food waste.

No, that's not 100% correct.....last week I did put an avocado stone in the general bin!

All our peelings, bones, tea bags, etc go in the Insinkerator (waste disposal unit) and are ground up and washed away, otherwise we eat all the food we buy before it goes off.

Avocado stones are just too difficult for the Insinkerator to get its "teeth" into!

Council have never queried why we never put out the food caddy.

Otherwise, we have general waste every 2 weeks alternating with recycling every 2 weeks, and garden waste every 2 weeks in summer. It frequently takes us 4 weeks to fill any of the bins, unless we are having a purge on paperwork and magazines.

G_M

But I don't think hygiene is the issue booksurr.....

booksurr wrote: »

I stand corrected :doh:

however, in the 4 years that our council have had a caddy system I have never once used it, nor has anyone ever questioned that fact. Or for that mater has anyone ever suggested there was a law saying I "have to" use the caddy. (I do now have a nice collection of the cornstarch bags they issue each year for lining it with )
there are lots of laws that are not enforced fully. Often lack of time/resources, or perhaps the cost of enforcement outweighs the potential benefit.

In the case of recycling, some councils don't enforce just encourage, some threaten, and some enforce to a greater or lesser degree.

My waste goes in the black bin and is collected once per fortnight as that is what my tax pays for.
errrr... no! Your tax pays for whatever the law says it should be spent on. In this case a recycling system.

You cannot unilaterally decide that 'waste collection' = fortnightly black bin collection, any more than you can decide that 'education' = teaching kids to read in the way you were taught at school rather than whatever new-fangled 'fonetick' sistem they now yoos.......


Maintaining hygiene within the house is a simple matter of putting things out daily and doing washing up afterwards. What goes in the bin stays in the bin for 2 weeks until collected.

Nor have I caught any diseases yet from my regime!

You're missing the point. The current laws require councils to recycle, & require us to comply with whatever recycling procedures the council introduces, not for hygiene reasons, but for broader ennvironmental reasons.

To reduce landfill, as we've run out of space for dumping
To stop polluting the oceans (yes, we still dump rubbish at sea!)
To reduce seepage of chemicals into the soil
To reduce production of harmfull gases
To reduce demand for limited natural resources by re-using stuff
etc

I'm sure your home is clean, & hygienic, and I look forward to visitig for tea and cake one day, but this is about keeping the country, and the world, clean and hygienic......

(having said that, I accept that what small changes we make have virtually no impact compared to the polution currently created in India, China etc, though even China is now waking up)

Norman_Castle

marksoton wrote: »

I'd like to think most sane people wouldn't give a t055 what happens to a strangers food waste....

Given the choice I suspect most sane people would choose a lower council tax bill over sponsoring their neighbours recycling reluctance. Wouldn't you?.

marksoton

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Given the choice I suspect most sane people would choose a lower council tax bill over sponsoring their neighbours recycling reluctance. Wouldn't you?.

Agreed. But the reality is some people just won't play the game....

marksoton

G_M wrote: »

To reduce landfill, as we've run out of space for dumping
To stop polluting the oceans (yes, we still dump rubbish at sea!)
To reduce seepage of chemicals into the soil
To reduce production of harmfull gases
To reduce demand for limited natural resources by re-using stuff
etc

It actually shocked me years ago when in a small waste treatment works there was a 1980's licence on the wall to authorise dumping of 400,000 tonnes of human waste in the English channel. That was one works! :eek:

I'm no ecomentalist ( gawd knows some of the environmental constraints we encounter in my line of work are ridiculous) but i find laziness and ignorance reprehensible.