Anger grows over wheelie bins in town (From Worcester News)

"Careful public consultation" When? Where? How? I was completely unaware of this until the Gazette reported that it was being recommended to Council, by which time, as we know with all decisions, it is a done deal.

In my previous local authority, which was largely flat throughout, they had door-to-door glass recycling collections using green boxes. They worked very well, were very discreet and didn't require the purchase of specialist expensive lorries. They also have weekly rubbish collections which continue to this day.

And finally, Cllr. Charles only receives one 'phone call per month? Come on Malvern residents, use your local Councillors, tell them what you think about local issues and how you want them to vote on your behalf. They are YOUR councillors, make sure they represent YOUR views.

Yes their are wheelie bins in use for the garden service. However a special smaller lottery is used every day to get to all the properties that the normal size lorry cannot. So not only are we going to need new larger vehicles but w will also need new small Lorises to do all the cage work. More cost as usual to the tax payer.
Also Malvern residents pay around £30 more a year for the garden waste bins than all other areas ! Why is that ?

sarah and her chickens wrote:
Yes their are wheelie bins in use for the garden service. However a special smaller lottery is used every day to get to all the properties that the normal size lorry cannot. So not only are we going to need new larger vehicles but w will also need new small Lorises to do all the cage work. More cost as usual to the tax payer.
Also Malvern residents pay around £30 more a year for the garden waste bins than all other areas ! Why is that ?

I am fed up with seeing other peoples rubbish spread all over the footpath and gardens where the pink poly and black bags have been broken and other people have to clean up. Thank goodness Malvern is coming into the 21st century, I have previously lived in an area for over 25 years that had wheelie bins thank goodness anh how much better they where. The sooner the better and please lets have black ones as well to get rid of poly bags altogether.

Bob68 there is always the option of doing what I do.Putting my rubbish in bags and then putting them in a bin at the top of my drive problem solved.Do you know how much money it is going to cost to buy all the lorries and all the wheelie bins and hire extra staff just so you don t have to look at the litter.
Be cheaper if they got the litter pickers to work their hours rather than letting them go home after 6 hours.
You could always buy your own wheelie bin.May i also ask where you live as to be honest the only places in Malvern where I have noticed a real litter problem are Elgar and Pound bank and around the Poolbrook estate etc
The litter in those areas is not caused by rubbish being ripped out of poly bags!
Oh and you might want to take a drive around worcester.Just love to see rows of wheelie bins lining the streets.

If Bob was to buy his own wheelybin how would the bin men empty it without the adapted trucks? Common sense is needed here, steep roads shouldn't have them nor should groups of flats or houses that cannot hide them round the back. I would rather see dumpster type bins outside flats than a pile of stinking bags and pizza boxes being torn into by cats and birds.

Illogik wrote:
If Bob was to buy his own wheelybin how would the bin men empty it without the adapted trucks? Common sense is needed here, steep roads shouldn't have them nor should groups of flats or houses that cannot hide them round the back. I would rather see dumpster type bins outside flats than a pile of stinking bags and pizza boxes being torn into by cats and birds.

You and Bob are deviating from the core of this article.
1) This article is about wheelie bins for recycling, NOT rubbish;
2) This article is about the 79 fold increase in 'phone calls to just one Councillor;
3) This article is about one Councillor truly representing the views of his residents; he was also speaking from experience of the last trial, which clearly did not work. (This was before I moved here, so I can't comment on that.)
4) We put out two bags of recycling a week, as it should not be crushed, so takes up a lot of room. Our wheelie bin would be overflowing well before the end of the two weeks;
5) If you had read what Sarah wrote, you would see she puts her black sacks into bins. One assumes, therefore, that the refuse collectors are happy to lift it out of the bin. Bob, or anyone, could use a wheelie bin instead of an ordinary bin in the same way if he wishes;
6) Once you have excluded all the roads on "steep hills" (criterion used to determine steep?), and the houses and flats that can't hide them, just how many dwellings in Malvern does that leave?
7) Then we should consider economies of scale. Sarah, in her blog under the original article quoted some figures. Assuming they are right, the expenditure on this is going to be huge, yet the new facilities can only be used in a percentage of properties in the area.
8) So, logically, buying green boxes for each house into which they can put their glass makes much more sense, both financially and practically.
9) You have not mentioned those people who live on a flat road, but have steep drives. One side of our road has flat driveways and the opposite side very steep driveways, with no room at the bottom for a wheelie bin. Are those people expected to haul their wheelie bins up and down these drives? (Many have cars parked up these drives, with no room either side to push a wheelie bin.)
10) You have not mentioned those people who are physically unable to manoeuvre these large, heavy and
unwieldy bins even on flat level ground, let alone on slopes or over grass or gravel etc.
11) You have not mentioned how even able bodied people manoeuvre them through the ice and snow?

Unless or until all these questions are shown to have realistic, practical and cost effective solutions, I, personally, cannot see the logic of having wheelie bins for recycling, or see why they are considered better than other options.

Perfectly said casmal.