Teams to tackle rubbish problems
If something smells in your neighbourhood, who are you going to call?
From later this year, it will be Oxford City Council's rapid response waste busters.
To ease fears about a rise in rubbish-related public health problems since the switch to fortnightly refuse collection, the Town Hall is spending £100,000 on a new litter-busting team.
The job of the two-person team, who will be equipped with a specially adapted vehicle, will be to respond to refuse-related problems as and when they arise.
They will also be responsible for enforcement and education. The move is seen as a compromise to those who have called for a return to weekly pick-ups since the city's so-called recycling revolution started last November.
City councillor Jean Fooks, executive member for a cleaner city, said: "When there is a problem we will deal with it. Going back (to weekly collections) would be expensive and unwise, but we want to make sure problems don't arise.
"It's education and enforcement - if people go on ignoring, we will have to go in."
Ms Fooks said "she was not for turning" and returning to a weekly collection service, which would cost £750,000 a year. Instead the £100,000 was included in this year's budget for emergencies and contingencies.
She added: "The budget set by the previous administration was for new vehicles and extra staff to collect extra materials.
"We are now collecting more and taking recyclables to the nearest facility for onward recycling.
"We are providing a better service, not a worse one. A full weekly collection would cost £750,000 (a year) and lead to reduced recycling and more landfill, which is itself a cost to the council.
"The £100,000 will provide ongoing emergency collection, but cannot provide weekly collection - think about the need for extra vehicles and crew at short notice to provide such city-wide."
Osney Island resident Eric Murray, co-founder of Collect Refuse in Oxford Weekly (CROW), said: "Is this an admission the new scheme is not working?
"We need weekly collections reinstated to make sure our streets are clean and to protect public health."
Former Oxford Lord Mayor and Ferry Hinksey Road resident John Power added: "For the first time in 40 years I've had mice in my house.
"Give people the choice (of weekly collections) they would have them back tomorrow - but what they want is ignored."
The council says if food is properly wrapped and disposed of in sealed wheelie bins there is no risk of flies and maggots breeding. Ultimately, it is the council's aim to provide a food waste collection service.
8:05am Tuesday 3rd April 2007
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CommentPosted by: jennie, east oxford on 10:42pm Mon 2 Apr 07
the council say there is no risk of flies and maggots if the food is properly wrapped and disposed of in sealed wheelie bins but lots and lots of houses are unable to have wheelie bins. they are having lilac bags -so does this mean they are a risk?
the council say there is no risk of flies and maggots if the food is properly wrapped and disposed of in sealed wheelie bins but lots and lots of houses are unable to have wheelie bins. they are having lilac bags -so does this mean they are a risk?
Posted by: Tony Brett, Oxford on 8:31am Tue 3 Apr 07
We eat most of the food I buy in our house. Where is all this food waste that everyone refers to coming from?
Organic vegetable matter gets composted and the odd scraps of meat/fish/bones that are sometimes left just get wrapped in the packaging they probably came in. What's the big problem?
We eat most of the food I buy in our house. Where is all this food waste that everyone refers to coming from?
Organic vegetable matter gets composted and the odd scraps of meat/fish/bones that are sometimes left just get wrapped in the packaging they probably came in. What's the big problem?
Posted by: annie, oxford on 8:49am Tue 3 Apr 07
the problem is tony approx 4500 lilac bags for households in Oxford who cannot have wheelie bins! And of course the side waste...some people with wheelie bins need more space for rubbish than they have allocated as they have different circumstances.
the problem is tony approx 4500 lilac bags for households in Oxford who cannot have wheelie bins! And of course the side waste...some people with wheelie bins need more space for rubbish than they have allocated as they have different circumstances.
Posted by: Andy on 9:18am Tue 3 Apr 07
I wondered how long it would be for Jean Fooks lapdog to comment on this issue. Not everyone is as great as you Tony, many have large families and do produce a large ammount of waste, but Tony refuses to accept that there are properties that the two weekly system will not work, but 'Im always right' Fooks and her lapdog Brett refuses to see or accept.Weekly collections must be brought back now.
I wondered how long it would be for Jean Fooks lapdog to comment on this issue. Not everyone is as great as you Tony, many have large families and do produce a large ammount of waste, but Tony refuses to accept that there are properties that the two weekly system will not work, but 'Im always right' Fooks and her lapdog Brett refuses to see or accept.Weekly collections must be brought back now.
Posted by: Jane, Oxford on 9:35am Tue 3 Apr 07
We had our green wheelie bin collected on Wednesday, it was smelling and full by Saturday, we are a house of 5 adults and children. We wrap the scrap food well in bags as recommended. We recycle as much as possible in the blue bins and green bins and the garden waste. Fortnightly household waste collection WILL NOT WORK longterm - and we're not into the hot weather yet - imagine the smell! Please bring back weekly household rubbish collections, I have no problems with recycling everything else!
We had our green wheelie bin collected on Wednesday, it was smelling and full by Saturday, we are a house of 5 adults and children. We wrap the scrap food well in bags as recommended. We recycle as much as possible in the blue bins and green bins and the garden waste. Fortnightly household waste collection WILL NOT WORK longterm - and we're not into the hot weather yet - imagine the smell! Please bring back weekly household rubbish collections, I have no problems with recycling everything else!
Posted by: Robert Warner, Henley-on-Thames on 9:39am Tue 3 Apr 07
In all the reports on the halving of the public refuse collection service from weekly to fortnightly, I have not seen the amount of money that the Oxford City Council will be saving, nor how that saving will be passed back to the tax paying residents. Or is it simply that, as usual, the service has been halved, but council tax has still gone up by more than Gordon Brown's phoney rate of inflation? Somehow I think I know the answer, but if anyone else knows better . . . !
In all the reports on the halving of the public refuse collection service from weekly to fortnightly, I have not seen the amount of money that the Oxford City Council will be saving, nor how that saving will be passed back to the tax paying residents. Or is it simply that, as usual, the service has been halved, but council tax has still gone up by more than Gordon Brown's phoney rate of inflation? Somehow I think I know the answer, but if anyone else knows better . . . !
Posted by: dave sunny Devon, devon on 10:21am Tue 3 Apr 07
What,s all the fuss about,We have had wheelie bins and hessian bags for the last six years on fortnitely collection,s.Never had no problems no fly,s no maggots no moaning and groaning and we have seagulls to contend with.You have just got to get use to change.[bold]bold[/bold]
What,s all the fuss about,We have had wheelie bins and hessian bags for the last six years on fortnitely collection,s.Never had no problems no fly,s no maggots no moaning and groaning and we have seagulls to contend with.You have just got to get use to change.
Posted by: Lesley, Oxford on 10:29am Tue 3 Apr 07
I wonder if Tony uses panty liners, sanitary wear or Lady Tenna pads or wears disposable nappies or smokes. It is not only food waste that smells. Does he have cats or dogs or children? Pets and children can be fussy and often leave their food. This and meat and fish bones need to be daily wrapped and double wrapped in plastic if they are to fester for two weeks which goes AGAINST recycling. I calculate I now use approx ten times more plastic wrapping than I used to to dispose of my rubbish, whilst recycling not one jot more ,as the only addition to the recycling collections has been plastic bottles which I have always taken round to the public recycling bins anyway.
I read that it will take the average household ten years of plastic recycling simply to "pay back" the amount needed to make their wheelie bin!
The extra costs in setting up this emergency service, together with having to field all the complaints, pay for all the wheelies, modify the collection vehicles etc. would have easily covered weekly collections of rubbish!
We now receive overall two FEWER collections than we used to under the old scheme so why would it cost so much more than it did then to have the same number of collections as we used to? I don't understand the economics there
I wonder if Tony uses panty liners, sanitary wear or Lady Tenna pads or wears disposable nappies or smokes. It is not only food waste that smells. Does he have cats or dogs or children? Pets and children can be fussy and often leave their food. This and meat and fish bones need to be daily wrapped and double wrapped in plastic if they are to fester for two weeks which goes AGAINST recycling. I calculate I now use approx ten times more plastic wrapping than I used to to dispose of my rubbish, whilst recycling not one jot more ,as the only addition to the recycling collections has been plastic bottles which I have always taken round to the public recycling bins anyway.
I read that it will take the average household ten years of plastic recycling simply to "pay back" the amount needed to make their wheelie bin!
The extra costs in setting up this emergency service, together with having to field all the complaints, pay for all the wheelies, modify the collection vehicles etc. would have easily covered weekly collections of rubbish!
We now receive overall two FEWER collections than we used to under the old scheme so why would it cost so much more than it did then to have the same number of collections as we used to? I don't understand the economics there
Posted by: John Faulkner, Oxford on 10:48am Tue 3 Apr 07
The council tax came in at a band e princely sum and I wonder, like Robert above, just where it all goes.
Waste collection seemed to me one of the only things I got for the money!
This ill considered scheme will not survive.
It hasn't rolled out to all of the City yet, the weather is still cool and Fooks is ordering "hit squads"!
First crack in the dam maybe? Let's hope so.
The council tax came in at a band e princely sum and I wonder, like Robert above, just where it all goes.
Waste collection seemed to me one of the only things I got for the money!
This ill considered scheme will not survive.
It hasn't rolled out to all of the City yet, the weather is still cool and Fooks is ordering "hit squads"!
First crack in the dam maybe? Let's hope so.
Posted by: Tony Brett, Oxford on 10:50am Tue 3 Apr 07
Lesley - I am hardly about to discus fetishes like that on here am I!
Seriously though this change in service is something that has been forced upon the City Council by the government. It is not a cost-cutting exercise at all, more a case of doing what new legislation demands with the small amount of money available.
I don't think the City Council did increase council tax above inflation did it?
Fortnightly collection can work and I firmly believe that if people have the will to make it work then it will. I certainly do and I live in a terraced house too.
And I'm no greater than anyone else posting on this forum, just vaguely realistic.
Lesley - I am hardly about to discus fetishes like that on here am I!
Seriously though this change in service is something that has been forced upon the City Council by the government. It is not a cost-cutting exercise at all, more a case of doing what new legislation demands with the small amount of money available.
I don't think the City Council did increase council tax above inflation did it?
Fortnightly collection can work and I firmly believe that if people have the will to make it work then it will. I certainly do and I live in a terraced house too.
And I'm no greater than anyone else posting on this forum, just vaguely realistic.
Posted by: Jan on 11:05am Tue 3 Apr 07
Ben Bradshaw (Environment Minister) states it is up to each local authority to decide it's own method of waste collection - again Mr Brett tries to put forward an argument that is simply not true. OCC must take full responsiblility for inflicting this scheme on city residents. Also Ms Fooks states it would be expensive and UNWISE to return to weekly collections - why unwise?
Ben Bradshaw (Environment Minister) states it is up to each local authority to decide it's own method of waste collection - again Mr Brett tries to put forward an argument that is simply not true. OCC must take full responsiblility for inflicting this scheme on city residents. Also Ms Fooks states it would be expensive and UNWISE to return to weekly collections - why unwise?
Posted by: Andy on 11:06am Tue 3 Apr 07
Tony, you can go on spouting that this has been forced upon the council by the goverment. It has not. It is up to the council how they deal with this and Jean Fooks has deemed that fortnightly collection is the only way. The goverment did not order councils to abolish weekly collections. Jean 'I know best' Fooks has caused this problem, and you know not every household is the same, so just because you can do it does not mean everyone can.
Tony, you can go on spouting that this has been forced upon the council by the goverment. It has not. It is up to the council how they deal with this and Jean Fooks has deemed that fortnightly collection is the only way. The goverment did not order councils to abolish weekly collections. Jean 'I know best' Fooks has caused this problem, and you know not every household is the same, so just because you can do it does not mean everyone can.
Posted by: Kevin on 11:08am Tue 3 Apr 07
The sooner Jean Fooks is recycled the better. All that comes out of her mouth is rubbish. If she had stated at the start that if this scheme does not work after 6 months then we will go back to weekly collections she may have had more backing. But she is digging her heels in and saying I know best, stuff the rest of you.
The sooner Jean Fooks is recycled the better. All that comes out of her mouth is rubbish. If she had stated at the start that if this scheme does not work after 6 months then we will go back to weekly collections she may have had more backing. But she is digging her heels in and saying I know best, stuff the rest of you.
Posted by: Eric, Oxford on 11:15am Tue 3 Apr 07
Tony: Fetishes? Come into the real world where people use such items and they have to be disposed of. As someone writes in the Oxford Mail today: [quote]We deserve a clean city and an effective refuse collection service[/quote] . Anyone justifying this scheme must walk around Oxford with their eyes closed, never has this city been in such a mess with rubbish, wheelie bins and boxes the council should be ashamed.
Tony: Fetishes? Come into the real world where people use such items and they have to be disposed of. As someone writes in the Oxford Mail today:
We deserve a clean city and an effective refuse collection service
. Anyone justifying this scheme must walk around Oxford with their eyes closed, never has this city been in such a mess with rubbish, wheelie bins and boxes the council should be ashamed.
Posted by: Tony Brett, Oxford on 11:32am Tue 3 Apr 07
Eric - Lesley said: "I wonder if Tony uses panty liners, sanitary wear or Lady Tenna pads or wears disposable nappies".
Lesley was talking about just me - not everyone else - and she was clearly being ironic.
Eric - Lesley said: "I wonder if Tony uses panty liners, sanitary wear or Lady Tenna pads or wears disposable nappies".
Lesley was talking about just me - not everyone else - and she was clearly being ironic.
Posted by: annie, oxford on 11:43am Tue 3 Apr 07
Tony I think the point that Lesley was making was that everybody has different circumstances and you seem to be unaware of this. As I said earlier there are going to be 4500 households who will having lilac sacks. Their rubbish is stored outside and will contain such used products that Lesley mentioned. I don't understand why you can't acknowledge this as it is obvious that this will cause a problem.
Tony I think the point that Lesley was making was that everybody has different circumstances and you seem to be unaware of this. As I said earlier there are going to be 4500 households who will having lilac sacks. Their rubbish is stored outside and will contain such used products that Lesley mentioned. I don't understand why you can't acknowledge this as it is obvious that this will cause a problem.
Posted by: Tony Brett, Oxford on 12:06pm Tue 3 Apr 07
I understood Lesley's point entirely.
There will of course be issues with any new scheme that will need addressing and I am confident that the City Council will do all it can to make things run as smoothly as possible for all of us, within the tight financial constraints that it has.
Why will having sanitary products in properly tied up plastic sacks, probably within dustbins, cause a problem? It's not as if they have to be left outside and unprotected all fortnight is it?
At the moment we have a dustbin at the back of our terraced house and on Thursday morning at 0630 I carry the tied bag(s) out of it to the front of the house for collection.
I am in constructive discussion with City Works about how things will change when the new scheme hits our area and we are working on some sensible suggestions. A council officer is coming to our Neighbourhood Watch meeting for the area tomorrow night to present and discuss ideas. It's not really rocket science and statistics prove that tidy neighbourhoods enjoy lower crime levels.
I understood Lesley's point entirely.
There will of course be issues with any new scheme that will need addressing and I am confident that the City Council will do all it can to make things run as smoothly as possible for all of us, within the tight financial constraints that it has.
Why will having sanitary products in properly tied up plastic sacks, probably within dustbins, cause a problem? It's not as if they have to be left outside and unprotected all fortnight is it?
At the moment we have a dustbin at the back of our terraced house and on Thursday morning at 0630 I carry the tied bag(s) out of it to the front of the house for collection.
I am in constructive discussion with City Works about how things will change when the new scheme hits our area and we are working on some sensible suggestions. A council officer is coming to our Neighbourhood Watch meeting for the area tomorrow night to present and discuss ideas. It's not really rocket science and statistics prove that tidy neighbourhoods enjoy lower crime levels.
Posted by: annie, oxford on 12:28pm Tue 3 Apr 07
But Tony they are left outside all fortnight - that is the problem! It is all over the city. Have you not seen it?
But Tony they are left outside all fortnight - that is the problem! It is all over the city. Have you not seen it?
Posted by: Jan on 12:45pm Tue 3 Apr 07
Tony Brett has defended this scheme on numerous occasions and now we find he hasn't actually experienced it! He may change his opinion in the future, when the problems already being experienced in Phases 1 and 2 spread to his own area!
Tony Brett has defended this scheme on numerous occasions and now we find he hasn't actually experienced it! He may change his opinion in the future, when the problems already being experienced in Phases 1 and 2 spread to his own area!
Posted by: K on 3:16pm Tue 3 Apr 07
And just how much will it cost to have this "Crack team" to sort out the problems?
I don't think I saw a figure for that in the news article, but if anyone else did please let me know.
And just how much will it cost to have this "Crack team" to sort out the problems?
I don't think I saw a figure for that in the news article, but if anyone else did please let me know.
Posted by: tarquin, oxford on 3:22pm Tue 3 Apr 07
K, near the top of the article it says: 'The Town Hall is spending £100,000 on a new litter-busting team.
K, near the top of the article it says: 'The Town Hall is spending £100,000 on a new litter-busting team.
Posted by: Keith, Farnborough on 3:46pm Tue 3 Apr 07
Fooks creates a problem, then more people have to be employed at a cost of £100k to resolve the problem she has created.
It is time for Fooks to be kicked out of office.
Fortnightly collection is not working. Across the country fortnightly collection has been an unmitigated disaster.
In Aldershot, rubbish is being strewn across the streets, the stench of rotting rubbish is unbearable, fly-tipping is now a major problem, but like Fooks, the arrogant Roland Dibbs, councillor responisble for this rubbish policy, is not listening.
We are all hoping Dibbs will be kicked out in the May elections, and good ridance to a rubbish councillor.
We live in a democracy. People want to retain weekly collection of their waste for all the obvious reasons.
People need to stand up and be counted in the May local elections. What are the candidates views on rubbish? We must kick out all those councillors promoting fortnightly waste collection.
Fooks creates a problem, then more people have to be employed at a cost of £100k to resolve the problem she has created.
It is time for Fooks to be kicked out of office.
Fortnightly collection is not working. Across the country fortnightly collection has been an unmitigated disaster.
In Aldershot, rubbish is being strewn across the streets, the stench of rotting rubbish is unbearable, fly-tipping is now a major problem, but like Fooks, the arrogant Roland Dibbs, councillor responisble for this rubbish policy, is not listening.
We are all hoping Dibbs will be kicked out in the May elections, and good ridance to a rubbish councillor.
We live in a democracy. People want to retain weekly collection of their waste for all the obvious reasons.
People need to stand up and be counted in the May local elections. What are the candidates views on rubbish? We must kick out all those councillors promoting fortnightly waste collection.
Posted by: outspoken, oxon on 3:50pm Tue 3 Apr 07
we are a family of four with a standard 240l wheelie bin. our youngest is still in (reuseable) nappies, we recycle all we can, only buy what we can eat but we still need to take waste to redbridge at least once a fortnight. the system isn't working Tony.
we are a family of four with a standard 240l wheelie bin. our youngest is still in (reuseable) nappies, we recycle all we can, only buy what we can eat but we still need to take waste to redbridge at least once a fortnight. the system isn't working Tony.
Posted by: Eric, Oxford on 3:51pm Tue 3 Apr 07
[bold]Hundreds of rat traps are being set in Oxford as part of a new campaign to battle the growing pest.
Numbers of rats and mice in the city are rising faster than the national average (BBC June 2003).[/bold] It seems that our councillors have a short memory. 4,500 households storing their rubbish in lilac bags, overflowing wheelie bins and side waste is an open invitation for the rats to return in the same numbers as were experienced in 2003.
Hundreds of rat traps are being set in Oxford as part of a new campaign to battle the growing pest.
Numbers of rats and mice in the city are rising faster than the national average (BBC June 2003). It seems that our councillors have a short memory. 4,500 households storing their rubbish in lilac bags, overflowing wheelie bins and side waste is an open invitation for the rats to return in the same numbers as were experienced in 2003.
Posted by: John Faulkner, Oxford on 4:15pm Tue 3 Apr 07
I have just found an "E Petition" on the Downing Street website -"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make amendments to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to ensure every household in the UK receives a weekly collection of domestic waste"-anyone wanting to add to it should do so?
Perhaps people don't see this idiot policy creeping up on them - but the petition should have as many signatures to it as the road pricing thing. We don't all drive but we all have waste.
I have just found an "E Petition" on the Downing Street website -"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make amendments to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to ensure every household in the UK receives a weekly collection of domestic waste"-anyone wanting to add to it should do so?
Perhaps people don't see this idiot policy creeping up on them - but the petition should have as many signatures to it as the road pricing thing. We don't all drive but we all have waste.
Posted by: John Fox, Lamma Island, Hong Kong on 4:27pm Tue 3 Apr 07
We put our own rubbish out daily and it's taken away the same day. Our rates are about 70-quid a quarter (i.e. 280 a year). And that also includes street lighting, street sweepers, police, fire fighters, snake catchers and other pest control, et cetera. Good deal, compared with Oxford Council, I think.
We put our own rubbish out daily and it's taken away the same day. Our rates are about 70-quid a quarter (i.e. 280 a year). And that also includes street lighting, street sweepers, police, fire fighters, snake catchers and other pest control, et cetera. Good deal, compared with Oxford Council, I think.
Posted by: lesley, oxford on 7:22pm Tue 3 Apr 07
I have just come back from Iffley where I garden for a slightly disabled lady Today she asked me if I could help her take all her extra rubbish and recycling up to the dump as it was beginning to smell terrible which was distressing her. (It was extremely well wrapped by the way).
At the dump where we queued for about ten minutes just to get to the containers, there are literally hundreds of people taking their household refuse to the skips there.
Now this scheme has been introduced- we are told - for the sake of the environment, but if there are now hundreds of extra car journeys each week to the dump this is certainly not good for the environment. And it also shows that people just do not want their rubbish sitting around for two weeks.
And no Tony I was not suggesting you indulge in fetishes, I was, as you said, speaking ironically but perhaps you missed the irony that was pointing out that it is arrogant when one does not have to dispose of such items to say it is easy to keep the quantity of waste to a minimum.
It is also easy for those "perfect" housewives/husbands who shop at the markets and small organic shops and who are not lumbered with excess packaging, to say that the rest of us should do the same. But many of us work full time as well as raising a family and keeping a house and doing the shopping. We just do not have the luxury of the time needed to shop in such a way, and have little choice other than to do a weekly shop at a supermarket which gives us a mountain of excess packaging.
Wheelie bins all over Oxford are bulging and spilling over the top and have extra bags put to the side of them. Quite aside from the smell, it is so unsightly in a city that was once famous for being beautiful
I have just come back from Iffley where I garden for a slightly disabled lady Today she asked me if I could help her take all her extra rubbish and recycling up to the dump as it was beginning to smell terrible which was distressing her. (It was extremely well wrapped by the way).
At the dump where we queued for about ten minutes just to get to the containers, there are literally hundreds of people taking their household refuse to the skips there.
Now this scheme has been introduced- we are told - for the sake of the environment, but if there are now hundreds of extra car journeys each week to the dump this is certainly not good for the environment. And it also shows that people just do not want their rubbish sitting around for two weeks.
And no Tony I was not suggesting you indulge in fetishes, I was, as you said, speaking ironically but perhaps you missed the irony that was pointing out that it is arrogant when one does not have to dispose of such items to say it is easy to keep the quantity of waste to a minimum.
It is also easy for those "perfect" housewives/husbands who shop at the markets and small organic shops and who are not lumbered with excess packaging, to say that the rest of us should do the same. But many of us work full time as well as raising a family and keeping a house and doing the shopping. We just do not have the luxury of the time needed to shop in such a way, and have little choice other than to do a weekly shop at a supermarket which gives us a mountain of excess packaging.
Wheelie bins all over Oxford are bulging and spilling over the top and have extra bags put to the side of them. Quite aside from the smell, it is so unsightly in a city that was once famous for being beautiful
Posted by: john, oxford on 2:16pm Thu 5 Apr 07
I am interested to see if Trade waste is treated the same, it must be recyclable, so how come one shops worth is all lumped together into one bag as I saw in St Aldates this week? Why do they get away with it?
I am interested to see if Trade waste is treated the same, it must be recyclable, so how come one shops worth is all lumped together into one bag as I saw in St Aldates this week? Why do they get away with it?
Posted by: Richard H, Oxford on 5:55pm Sun 8 Apr 07
Can we have all the details of the cost of all the bins, boxes and vehicle changes please and the ongoing administration of all these resources? The Council are very good at hiding the cost of everything so we think they are saving money, but are actually spending more. Also, can we get a figure for the amount of carbon used produced making all these bins & boxes and compare that to using the collection trucks once a week? I agree too with everyone, it's becoming an eyesore all over Oxford seeing wheelie bins and boxes overflowing all over the place, mainly in peoples front gardens, which was not the idea at all. Yet again, the Council defies all logic and common sense with their schemes, created but unqualified individuals who will never listen to common sense and good reason. We should be used to it by now after all the stupid road schemes and building fiascos, wasting our money and yet claiming them all to be a success! About time we had some councillors with some common sense and respect for their voters.
Can we have all the details of the cost of all the bins, boxes and vehicle changes please and the ongoing administration of all these resources? The Council are very good at hiding the cost of everything so we think they are saving money, but are actually spending more. Also, can we get a figure for the amount of carbon used produced making all these bins & boxes and compare that to using the collection trucks once a week? I agree too with everyone, it's becoming an eyesore all over Oxford seeing wheelie bins and boxes overflowing all over the place, mainly in peoples front gardens, which was not the idea at all. Yet again, the Council defies all logic and common sense with their schemes, created but unqualified individuals who will never listen to common sense and good reason. We should be used to it by now after all the stupid road schemes and building fiascos, wasting our money and yet claiming them all to be a success! About time we had some councillors with some common sense and respect for their voters.
Posted by: Eric, Oxford on 11:21am Mon 9 Apr 07
I couldn't agree more Richard. Why aren't our councillors ashamed when they see what has happened to our city? The whole scheme is a fiasco.
I couldn't agree more Richard. Why aren't our councillors ashamed when they see what has happened to our city? The whole scheme is a fiasco.
Posted by: arthur, greter leys on 7:07pm Tue 10 Apr 07
hi to all the busybodys and do gooders who are forcing two weekly collections on us .eyery week rubbish is left overflowing from green bins blue boxes etc.ive phoned the council many times to pick it up and clean my street,give them their due they come out and clean up every time ,how much is this costing?i read someware a long time before this all started that we would save money and therfore have cheaper council tax ,in your dreams council tax has gone up every year .ok my wages go up but not the same rate as inflation im sick of councils ,council tax and rubbish collections .i say lets leave it all in the street for a week and make occ lower our concill tax.fed up resdiant greter leys
hi to all the busybodys and do gooders who are forcing two weekly collections on us .eyery week rubbish is left overflowing from green bins blue boxes etc.ive phoned the council many times to pick it up and clean my street,give them their due they come out and clean up every time ,how much is this costing?i read someware a long time before this all started that we would save money and therfore have cheaper council tax ,in your dreams council tax has gone up every year .ok my wages go up but not the same rate as inflation im sick of councils ,council tax and rubbish collections .i say lets leave it all in the street for a week and make occ lower our concill tax.fed up resdiant greter leys
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