On 5 Jun 2009 at 9:26pm jonnyboy wrote:
Noticed there are now a couple of large bins outside the recycling centre in North Street for domestic cardboard. Saves a trip to the tip
On 6 Jun 2009 at 12:03am Sam Spam wrote:
excellent!.....saves a trip to Ham Lane
On 6 Jun 2009 at 3:44pm Elly wrote:
You want to push the council to allow you to put it in with your green garden watse. We are allowed to now in Eastbourne.
On 7 Jun 2009 at 9:10am jonnyboy wrote:
The bins are only outside when the recycling centre is open. This is because of fire risk.
On 7 Jun 2009 at 12:19pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:
I really don't know why they haven't included it in doorstep collections yet. Wehn we started taking our cardboard to the tip, the reduction in our rubbish was huge. I had no idea we got so much cardboard. The gain in recycling credits and reduction in landfill tax would be significant imo.
Mind you, it couldn't go in with green waste as they don't collect that either.
On 7 Jun 2009 at 7:23pm Mystic Mog wrote:
I try and leave excess packaging at the shop. If we all do this the manufacturers might reduce the amount of pointless packaging.
On 8 Jun 2009 at 2:06pm Its Not Rocket Science wrote:
This subject has been brought up several times before, and unless something has changed recently, there is actually no facility locally for recycling cardboard, and even though it can be separated at the tip, it all goes to the same landfill as the rest of the rubbish. This would explain why there is no doorstep collection
On 8 Jun 2009 at 3:00pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:
Wtf do they bother having a separate skip for it at the tip then? Is it just to make us feel better?
On 9 Jun 2009 at 9:13am Elly wrote:
What no doorstep collection? Do you not have a large green bin for garden waste in Lewes? What about a smaller green bin for your plastics, glass and tins do you have one of those?
Here in Eastbourne we have a small green bin for plastics, glass and tin which is collected by sita and then we have a large green bin for garden waste and cardboard which is collected in a very large orange dust cart not sure who does that one. You need to get your placards out and get up that town hall it don't seem fair to make disabled people have to drag their recycles to a recycle point.
On 9 Jun 2009 at 9:44am Its Not Rocket Science wrote:
Exactly AC-T. Its ridiculous. The provision has to be made at the tip for cardboard, but in the absence of a recycling facility locally the contents of that skip go straight in with the other landfill. At least thats how it was. It may now be that there is a recycling facility. Maybe someone in the know can enlighten us.
On 9 Jun 2009 at 7:40pm Poppycock wrote:
Here in Lewes we don't have room for parking a car let alone numerous bins.
LOL
On 9 Jun 2009 at 10:22pm Spinster Of This Parish wrote:
What's wrong with incineration?!!!
On 10 Jun 2009 at 6:55am Green Man wrote:
I have been told (by staff at the Local Area Refuse Domestic Access Regional Site Emporium) that the contents of the skips at the far end (wood etc) goes to Germany to be segregated HOW ECOLOGICALLY SOUND IS THAT - huge iron skips shipped over the channel and diesel fuelled to Germany for them to empty, sort and process -P'ah! (and send the empty skips back the same way?)