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My neighbour is very elderly and is unable to contact the council, she has asked me to thank the Cleansing department for making sure that her rubbish is collected without fail every week and for sending her the required boxes on time so that she can recycle her rubbish
Well done to Cleansing!
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I'd like to add to this, that although my father-in-law in neighbouring Grange Hill is always complaining about the number of different collecting lorries, bags, bins etc they have, they never seem to know what's happening around bank holidays.
We've never had that problem. Either we've had an annual leaflet telling us what will happen, and it does, or we've gone by precedent and its been correct. This year I checked this website for christmas collections as we hadn't had our usual leaflet.
So while I may mutter that we don't include as much on the door to door recycling as they do, what is collected, is collected promptly and usually cleanly.
Well done especially to the team for getting back on track so quickly after the snowfalls the other week. I've sent an email direct to them already, but I thought it would be good to remind everyone else, that though schools and other services may have crumbled, they did not!
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It's not all bad news in Grange Hill either. Diane Meakin's father-in-law must reside on the Epping Forest District side of the railway. Here in Redbridge (also Grange Hill) it's fairly good on the whole. Just wish they would (a) extend the range of items accepted for recycling from kerbside collection, and (b) replace lids on the kerbside boxes during inclement weather. This could be done by replacing the empty box upside down with the lid then placed over the base. Idea too complicated, apparently, for the council's contractor................
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Agreed Morris, several times I have returned on a rainy day to find the box, often with a few paper items still inside, half-full with water and a soggy mess. It doesn't take too much efort to replace the recycling bins where they were and either put the top on, or put them upside-down as you suggest. LAst week mine was replaced upside-down. Maybe this is a new initiative, if so, well done to whoever suggested it.
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it would be nice if redbridge was able to introduce the mrf system where you don't have to worry about sorting at home as it's all sorted in a mechanised plant.
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Would you put sorting staff out of a job ????
I think it's necessary to sort at home, but I'm sure that one or more further sorts are done at depots.
I don't know how many people it takes to sort a borough's recycling, but I would hazard a guess that automation would decrease that number. OK, so it is not fun work, I almost spent a night doing it, but a different job came through at the last moment, but to some it maybe all they have.
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vfmctax wrote:it would be nice if redbridge was able to introduce the mrf system where you don't have to worry about sorting at home as it's all sorted in a mechanised plant. Surely, with the exception of paper, the house to house collection is mixed and then sorted at the recycling centre? Or is the collection process not standardised across the borough?
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Most people like us have two recycling boxes one for paper and one for glass jars, plastic drink bottles, milk bottles etc.
On the whole I am quite happy with the service we get, but why can't we recycle cardboard??
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I think the recycling operatives are very thoughtful, they always leave me a little something to get started for the following week!
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Information about cardboard recyling banks can be found on this page on Redbridge i - http://www.redbridge.gov...rd_recycling_banks.aspx
A response from our Recyling team has been requested and once provided will be posted in this thread. Regards Redimanager :)
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redimanager wrote:Information about cardboard recyling banks can be found on this page on Redbridge i - http://www.redbridge.gov...rd_recycling_banks.aspx
A response from our Recyling team has been requested and once provided will be posted in this thread. Regards Redimanager :) Why not the cabinet member? They are paid substantial "responsibility allowances", let THEM take the responsibility for being accountable to us for the spending of OUR money. Two of them do not even live in Redbridge.
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In Redbridge we cannot currently accept any cardboard in the kerbside recycling box. This is because the paper collected for recycling in Redbridge goes straight to a paper recycling plant where is it recycled and used to print newspapers. Paper is a more valuable resource than cardboard and if paper and cardboard are collected together and therefore recycled together, they are turned into card which is not such a valuable resource and not such a good use of the old paper. We would therefore ideally like to collect and recycle cardboard separately from paper, but at present do not have the infrastructure to do this.
Posted on behalf of Cleansing Services
Redimanager :)
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