Pink bag shortage as recycling soars in Castle Point (From Echo)
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Pink bag shortage as recycling soars in Castle Point
10:00am Sunday 8th January 2012 in Castle Point
Think pink – Dot Palmer likes to recycle, but she can’t get enough bags from the council
CASTLE Point Council is running out of pink sacks after launching a campaign to remind families to recycle.
Bags are being rationed because they are in such short supply with residents limited to picking up just five at a time.
It comes after the council launched a campaign urging residents not to forget to recycle over Christmas, when households produce more rubbish than any other time of the year.
Keen recycler Dot Palmer, 64, of Linden Way, Canvey, said: “This is absolutely ridiculous. Do they think people really have the time to dash up and down to the library every day?
“I went into town before Christmas to try to get some pink sacks and they did not have them then.
“How can we recycle if we do not have the equipment?
“If people can’t get any sacks they will just have to chuck their rubbish in black bins which is such a waste.
“Hopefully, the council has learnt from its mistake and this will not happen again next year.”
A roll of pink recycling bags is delivered once a year and if residents run out, they can normally be picked up from leisure centres, libraries, and the council offices in Castle Point.
However, only Canvey Library, in the High Street, Runnymede Pool, in Thundersley, and the council offices in Kiln Road, Thunder-sley, have any left.
Residents have been unable to get recycling bags from Hadleigh Library, in London Road, for over two weeks.
For the first time, more than half of household waste in the borough was recycled last year, up from 39.4 per cent in 2010.
A spokesman from the council, said: “Due to significant demand before Christmas, it has been necessary to restrict the number of bags to five in order to maintain a supply of pinks sacks until a new delivery is received.
“This demonstrates the continuing success and residents’ enthusiasm for the pink bag recycling scheme.”
Residents can also take their recyclable waste to the recycling centre for household waste, in Canvey Road, Canvey.
Castle Point Council hopes to receive a delivery of new bags by the end of the week.
Comments(23)
News Bunny
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11:25am Sun 8 Jan 12
APR
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11:31am Sun 8 Jan 12
Who on earth is is in charge of editing and deleting comments at the Echo ?
Must be some ex-left wing London councillor, who has spent too much time going away on "awareness" courses.
Nebs
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1:02pm Sun 8 Jan 12
APR wrote:Too right. Are they not capable of just removing the offending post, rather than all posts.
It's nice to know there's at least one story we can leave comments on.
Who on earth is is in charge of editing and deleting comments at the Echo ?
Must be some ex-left wing London councillor, who has spent too much time going away on "awareness" courses.
I wonder if there is sabotage afoot, whereby if something is too close to the truth then you just have to type something offensive and get the whole thread withdrawn.
upset
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3:46pm Sun 8 Jan 12
APR
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3:51pm Sun 8 Jan 12
God forbid that anyone should be allowed to comment on the "Gay Couple" story.
That would have run to about 100 posts before it was deleted :)
It won't be long before they don't allow comments on "any" stories.
Very short sighted to do away with the "Have your say" section as well.
It appears that it's only Southend Echo which has done this. Where on earth do they get the staff from ?
The local play group ?
APR
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3:54pm Sun 8 Jan 12
P***y section now. As you can't post there any more, I doubt anyone reads it.
muffindamule
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5:14pm Sun 8 Jan 12
Last Poster
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10:40pm Sun 8 Jan 12
upset wrote:Thats because, if it was a positive Tory posting, such as the million and two posted by EvilC, then it could only be blatant lies. I think the truth is that the sacks have been used as membranes in the footings of the Thousand upon thousand of new houses being built on public land in this "Totally broke" country. Still wonder why we have made the biggest loans Europe wide and, according to all outside of the influence of this corrupt Tory mob, were the guiding light in response to the thieving bankers biggest ever con-job. Of course, New Labour probably took the government bank balance with them when they left didn't they?
If you write positive tory postings or anti CIIP ones it is almost certain to get removed.
cheese&chocs
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8:19am Mon 9 Jan 12
So people like Richard Dawkins can spout his opinion of Christians raising their children in a Christian home under Christian ethics and also moan a bucket about Christian based schools being harmful to children and tantamount to brainwashing yet a child being brought up buy a 'gay couple' is celebrated!! What a sick and perverted world we live in. I dread to think how these kids will turn out. And yes Mr Moderator I fully understand this will never get past the censorship gestapo - free speach as long it toes the current party way of thinking.
upset
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9:52am Mon 9 Jan 12
Last Poster wrote:If what you say is true they had a good teacher in Tony Blair, he and his American war mungers kill thousands in Iraq and left the country in civil war. He continues to get millions of pounds (for what) and from £12m only pays £300,000 in tax.
upset wrote:Thats because, if it was a positive Tory posting, such as the million and two posted by EvilC, then it could only be blatant lies. I think the truth is that the sacks have been used as membranes in the footings of the Thousand upon thousand of new houses being built on public land in this "Totally broke" country. Still wonder why we have made the biggest loans Europe wide and, according to all outside of the influence of this corrupt Tory mob, were the guiding light in response to the thieving bankers biggest ever con-job. Of course, New Labour probably took the government bank balance with them when they left didn't they?
If you write positive tory postings or anti CIIP ones it is almost certain to get removed.
I could go on and on about the party you defend, but lets get real, the parties are all very similar but Blair is head and shoulders above them all for feathering his own nest.
upset
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9:52am Mon 9 Jan 12
Last Poster wrote:If what you say is true they had a good teacher in Tony Blair, he and his American war mungers kill thousands in Iraq and left the country in civil war. He continues to get millions of pounds (for what) and from £12m only pays £300,000 in tax.
upset wrote:Thats because, if it was a positive Tory posting, such as the million and two posted by EvilC, then it could only be blatant lies. I think the truth is that the sacks have been used as membranes in the footings of the Thousand upon thousand of new houses being built on public land in this "Totally broke" country. Still wonder why we have made the biggest loans Europe wide and, according to all outside of the influence of this corrupt Tory mob, were the guiding light in response to the thieving bankers biggest ever con-job. Of course, New Labour probably took the government bank balance with them when they left didn't they?
If you write positive tory postings or anti CIIP ones it is almost certain to get removed.
I could go on and on about the party you defend, but lets get real, the parties are all very similar but Blair is head and shoulders above them all for feathering his own nest.
alimac69
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11:09am Mon 9 Jan 12
Mudlark1
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11:39am Mon 9 Jan 12
GreatDixter wrote:Dont no about that but I can certainly smell sh*t!!
"However, only Canvey Library, in the High Street, Runnymede Pool, in Thundersley, and the council offices in Kiln Road, Thunder-sley, have any left."
This is the sort of story that will get "Mudlark" wetting himself to comment on.
Ian P
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12:48pm Mon 9 Jan 12
APR
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4:14pm Mon 9 Jan 12
APR
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4:17pm Mon 9 Jan 12
Another story that got comments deleted.
It always happens when someone tries to take the moral high ground.
I See It All
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4:38pm Mon 9 Jan 12
“Hopefully, the council has learnt from its mistake and this will not happen again next year.”
The answer is no, exactly the same happenned last year
John T Pharro
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5:05pm Mon 9 Jan 12
I See It All wrote:And that says it all. The same as they charge you for extra green bags and the slops bags (I know you can use newspaper). However, the more you recycle the less the Council (us) has to pay for land fill. Hardly an encouragement to recycle is it?
Sorry to comment on the story rather than the left v right ramblings above, but as the article says
“Hopefully, the council has learnt from its mistake and this will not happen again next year.”
The answer is no, exactly the same happenned last year
Can you use dog poo bags which are free. I see they festoon everywhere and do the Council or Environment Agency pick them up when dumped.
Answer No anyone seen the state of the walkways around Smallgains Creek? Council says Environment Agency job to pick up. Environment Agency says Council result dog poo bags growing daily.
I know dog owners shouldn't dump them, but because they do we pay Council Tax to get them cleared up. Or in most cases not!!!
geezer, innit
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6:18pm Mon 9 Jan 12
Ian P wrote:exactly.
Too many cartons and plastic drinks bottles etc. find their way into pink bags without being flattened down. If people flattened such items there would not be a pink bag shortage because three or four times the amount of recycling material could be placed in a single bag.
streetboy75
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12:10pm Tue 10 Jan 12
i have contacted the council and some are being delivered to me, i am not going to keep going around to see if places have them in stock, the council wants us to yuse them so they can bring them to me now.
MrFrogFace
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2:35pm Tue 10 Jan 12
I would hazzard a guess that people waste the sacks just because they are free. How many times have you driven to the tip and seen people with non recycling bits wrapped up in pink sacks? Drive past any charity shop and you will see pink sacks full of donated items.
John T Pharro
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6:44pm Tue 10 Jan 12
MrFrogFace wrote:You know I had forgotten that must be my age.
same thing happened last year,the indies highlighted the story and the result was ole Pammy gurl said we could use black sacks instead !!
I would hazzard a guess that people waste the sacks just because they are free. How many times have you driven to the tip and seen people with non recycling bits wrapped up in pink sacks? Drive past any charity shop and you will see pink sacks full of donated items.
There you go Councillor Pam Challis MBE telling us residents to use black bags thus adding to the cost of land fill which in turn will result in a surcharge to the Council!!
Leader of the Council???? Lovely bit of leadership this one!!
As a point of information is there actually a place to put in pink sacks at tip or is the only place where they go where the black sacks go?
GreatDixter says...
10:47am Sun 8 Jan 12
This is the sort of story that will get "Mudlark" wetting himself to comment on.