You Have Your Say …
This month: rubbish, bins and litter
New Bins, Revised Collections
The change in bins and collections is irritating many Chorleywooders.
Bob Stebbings wrote to Three Rivers about the brown bin collection being reduced to fortnightly.
“During the summer we hardly cope with a weekly collection. Paying £2.5k a year in council tax I am certainly in no mind to pay for an extra bin!”
The Council responded
“The collection of garden waste is not a statutory function and at a time when Councils are being asked to save vast sums of money collecting it weekly is simply not possible anymore. Pre 2005 we only collected garden waste if residents paid for sacks so residents used to be able to deal with garden waste themselves without the need for us to collect, either by home composting, by far the most sustainable way of dealing with garden waste, or taking it to the Household Waste Recycling Centres.”
Mr Stebbings wrote back…
“I note your comments about garden waste not being collected pre-2005, but then we were not paying £2.5k per year in council tax. For that amount we should at least have our bins emptied, whatever type of waste involved. And speaking of waste: perhaps in the council’s efforts to “save vast sums of money” it should look to it’s own housekeeping. For example, spending £16,000 on a 20mph speed limit in Heronsgate Road which has made no difference whatsover to speeds along the road but has left the expensive eyesore of a multitude of additional signs, a good number of which are already deteriorating due to substandard workmanship. Then there is the unresolved William Penn debacle of course, and lets not forget the four day a week chief exec on full pay….etc etc etc.
I expect better for what I’m paying.”
Karen Mason adds
I also left a message for Three Rivers re brown bin collections and asked if residents still had two brown bins could we put them out once every two weeks which would definitely help. No answer!
and on Facebook Juliette Whittaker is very unhappy with the new grey food bins
“ I HATE them! Too big, unhygienic and generally disgusting. Within two days I had hatching flies. I’m not using it! I’m not! “
Other grey bin questions residents would like answered…
Inside or outside.?
Are they fox proof? Dog proof?
Do they have up be cleaned with organic cleaners?
What should we do with food waste when the bins are full ?
Now the garden compost isn’t being heat treated will the council compost be spreading diseases and invasive plants like Japanese knotweed?
Can anybody arty out there make them look better – maybe yarn bomb one ? Send us your ideas.
Litter
Mel Peel is concerned about litter on the Common and was particularly upset to see two boys dropping a plastic drink bottle and a Pringles container.
“ I called out to the boys who were walking away and to their credit they did come back and collect the litter and apologised.
Perhaps it’s time to let the parents of Chorleywood know it may be their kids doing it.”
and Vandalism
Jane Harrison tells us that the hand-carved bench at Rickmansworth Aquadrome has been vandalised for the second time
“It has two swans either side, which were both vandalised and re-done and now one has been vandalised again. “