On 26/03/2018 14:10, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Andrew
wrote:

On 25/03/2018 16:12, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Andrew
wrote:

We have no separate collections for food waste or electricals,
the council assume people are going to somehow travel to the
various Viridor sites and deposit their old fm radio or
hair curlers in the correct skip - if only.

People have no problem depositing all sorts of stuff at our local tip.
Mostly because all the bins are marked and there are people to ask.


Indeed, but those are the ones who make effort. A lot of people
can't be arsed and just chuck recyclable stuff in the normal
domestic rubbish bin.

Not sure what can be done with people like that.

Even the skips at the Viridor sites are abused. The one that
should contain soil or rubble is usually contimainated with
ceramic tiles, old bogs, stuff that should be in there.

Ditto the timber skip. All manner of junk that clearly
cannot go through a chipper gets chucked in there.

Insufficient staff, then. At ours you don't put the wood in the skip.
You dump it in a pile and they put it in the skip.

They have at least 2, sometimes 3 blokes who are supposed to
assist owners, where necessary and ought to be able to stop
the wrong stuff being put into inappropriate bins.

I suspect they are afraid to step in, in case of abuse and the
risk of it being flytipped.

Once I went there and the manager was a young german guy, and the
place was *spotless*. Everything was done properly. Next time I
went he had gone and it was back to its usual state.