Gary Corkhill's criminal record

[johnhcrf]

Copeland Council have made a major blunder in criminalising a man, who recycles to the max, tells his children to put rubbish in the bin. His crime overfilling his bin by 4 inches (photographed). Where there is a large family, 6 in this case, surely it makes sense to allow some leeway. I live alone and empty my bin at least every 5 weeks, but that is a rarity.

[jayne]

giving him leeway would involve useing common sense, the council will be the first to act if he dumps it else where, instead of risking a fine, i have had naighbours that have had binmen refused to empty the bin when its been a bit open,wheres the sense in that as the fortnight later when they come again theres twice as much. i had a lot of cardboard waste from mums medicine packets and i dread it being too much for the bin,that i shred a lot and dig into the compost

[johnhcrf]

Why create a climate of fear? I think that waste reduction is a community effort and should be characterised by positivity. Dumping on a family of 6 is very negative.

John

[Hawthorn]

Wish someone would come and fine my parents. They stubbornly refuse to recycle ANYTHING! Despite the fact that they have blue bin and other colours for different types of stuff. Last I heard, one of these was being used as a toolbox.
My dad gets 3 papers a day, and they use cans and bottles frequently, not to mention plastic milk cartons.
They generate as much rubbish for landfill, just the two of them and the dog, as I do with six of us and the dog.

[Annpan]

We have no recycling collection, and being 10 miles from the recyling centre wotsit at the dump we don't recycle. Unless it is being reused or burned on our fire (which is most things)

Tins are really the only thing that go in the bin, and alot of them get reused first.

I think councils should be obliged to provide recycling bins to every household.

[Hawthorn]

I do believe that they are making steps towards this Annpan, or at least our councils are.
In the past four years they introduced Wheelie bins and the blue bin collection scheme. Hull area already have the other recycling tubs, and we shouldn't be too long before getting those.
Our nearest recycling area is just five minutes away in car, so we save it until we have loads then take it down in the car.
They do everything that the blue bins won't accept. We're lucky like that.

[jayne]

have you ever tried getting a bigger recycling bin,i moved into a house that had been rented by a childless couple,when i moved in with an extended family in tow i asked for the bigger bin, oh boy you would have thought i had commited a murder,paper work(more to recycle) leaflets ditto then a visit just to check up how many where in the house! now theres a waste of time!

[Annpan]

Other villages in the area have the blue and green bins... one village is 1 mile away and has alot of council properties (the only reason I mention it is that they must have a low rate of recycling, even with the bins) and new housing estates 2 miles away also have them... We are a small village (population approx. 200) very rural and rather middle class... the council has obviously no interest in giving us recycling bins

[Shirley]

We have a roadside paper collection once a month... but everything else has to be taken to the recycling area. We tend not to go very often and so it piles up and is then a 'big day out' and takes a while to put it all into the recycling bins. We do get some funny looks when we take 6 months of wine/beer bottles for recycling.

We've now got much less plastic because we have a doorstep milk delivery - however this is not organic milk. I'd prefer organic but really don't want the plastic so have opted for non-organic.

I think if it can be proven that a person is recycling well then to be penalised for having an over filled bin is unfair.

[johnhcrf]

I am the odd one out in this chat, because this and related issues are a female passtime. My contacts and fellow travellers are Karen Carrand, Anna Shepard, the 3 East Renfrewshire ladies who introduced waste food collections there and most others. Simply because we all, including me, deal with the waste. Most men are out of the loop and I cannot see this ever changing.

John.

[Karen_D]

have you ever tried getting a bigger recycling bin,i moved into a house that had been rented by a childless couple,when i moved in with an extended family in tow i asked for the bigger bin, oh boy you would have thought i had commited a murder,paper work(more to recycle) leaflets ditto then a visit just to check up how many where in the house! now theres a waste of time!

I asked for a second box (storage box sized not a big bin) so I could separate bottles and cans without using plastic bags (the Council as you to use plastic bags which they don't recycle just chuck away...) and got a helpful lady who sent one out.

Later I phoned up about the bin men leaving everyone else's cardboard boxes (which our local council also don't recycle) in our recycling boxes, happened to mention my two box system and the not-very-nice-exceedingly-unhelpful lady I'd got that time went ballistic. "WHY HAVE YOU GOT TWO BOXES?!!" as if I'd procured it at gunpoint.

Some councils do their best to recycle. Some.

[jayne]

when my 3 compost bins where full one week i bought the green bags for recycling garden waste,which arnt that cheap,then watched the bin man through them in with the black bin rubbish,whats the point in paying to have it recycled when they throw it in the land fill anyway

[jayne]

[quote="jayne"]when my 3 compost bins where full one week i bought the green bags for recycling garden waste,which arnt that cheap,then watched the bin man through them in with the black bin rubbish,whats the point in paying to have it recycled when they throw it in the land fill anyway

[jayne]

I UST NOT PLAY WITH BUTTONS NAUGHTY ME!!!!

[johnM]

I am the odd one out in this chat, because this and related issues are a female passtime. My contacts and fellow travellers are Karen Carrand, Anna Shepard, the 3 East Renfrewshire ladies who introduced waste food collections there and most others. Simply because we all, including me, deal with the waste. Most men are out of the loop and I cannot see this ever changing.

John.

Hello John could you please elaborate on a couple of points, first why co you consider recycling to be a female pass-time and secondly why would you think that most men are out of the loop?

Surely we all need to do our best to observe the three Rs.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.