Recycling. Do you want us to or not?

[indiej25]

The bin men have been around this morning and the whole of my front garden is covered in my recycling, they haven't taken all of it and if anything else they seem to have spread around the street!

I appreciate what they do is labour intensive and hard work.

But Southwark wants us to recycle more and hopes to recycle 90% of waste by 2020, they cant do that if it's still on my neighbours and my doorstep!!

[peterstorm1985]

We all have bad days - it sounds as though the binmen did today but posting on this forum won't get it sorted.

Take a photo, send it to Southwark at environment@southwark.gov.uk

Then they'll know what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

I would not go as far as it won't happen again because they do it quite often on my road, I do take photos and complain, they apologise, then a month goes by and it happens again. A losing battle.

[pebbles]

I think today was a particularly bad day obviously. I'm on Friern Rd and after the green bins had been collected (which basically is full of nappies) there were 3 nappies left in the middle of the road. Obviously I picked them up and put back into bin but still - pretty disgusting.

[Sue]

pebbles Wrote:

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> I think today was a particularly bad day

> obviously. I'm on Friern Rd and after the green

> bins had been collected (which basically is full

> of nappies) there were 3 nappies left in the

> middle of the road. Obviously I picked them up

> and put back into bin but still - pretty

> disgusting.

xxxxxxx

Not being funny, but don't you wrap the soiled nappies in something before you put them in the bin?

Bit hard on the people who empty the bin if not?

[indiej25]

I think the nappy incident is terrible, but I found a broken bottle of glass when picking up the rubbish. The amount of children who live around here, can you imagine.

Well I cant take a picture as I've cleaned it up but yes I will be sending an email to the councillor, little will be done though I'm sure.

[pebbles]

Sue - sorry, i should have made myself clearer. Of course i put the nappies in bags so the nappy bags were in the road however if I hadn't have come out when I did, they could have been run over and then it really wouldn't have been a pretty sight.

[James Barber]

Please email me directly and I'll take up these instances.

What you've described in unacceptable.

[James Barber]

Hi Pebbles,

I've contact officers about the problems you had this week and will let you know the outcome. You're in the 'pilot' area so one of two possible crews will have caused this. Both crews dedicated to the 'pilot' areas so relatively easy to ensure they're don't do it again.

Hi indiej25,

Where did you read Southwark having a target of 90% by 2020?

Southwark Labour party declared a manifesot pledge to double recyclnig by 2014.

At the time recyclnig was 22% and predicted to be 24.65% before the May elections this year.

So presume that means by 2014 recyclnig rate planned to be 49.30%.

What they might have stated is 90% not going to landfill - which has already been achieved with much going to the South East London Combined Heat & Power plant just across the border in Lewisham for incineration.

[James Barber]

Hi Pebbles,

Problem gone?