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bluecurlygirl · **Posted: 07-10-2008 , 02:59 PM** #27

Our council don't provide green bins - that would be Cavan County Council - just to name and shame. My bin collection is a private collection as the only collection the Council does is the yellow bags that you pay €5 or something like that. The private collection isn't great either as it only collects the green bin once every four weeks. One of our neighbours - I kid you not - never leaves a bin out on Mondays (private collection day) or Tuesdays (council collection day) and with seven kids in the house we were all wondering where the waste was going. Then we discovered that he has cut a gateway out of his back garden fence which opens onto a field and he just hurls his rubbish in there. The council were made aware of this and eventually they provided him with a skip - where is the logic? Why not fine his a$$ first and make him recycle secondly and then fill the landfill bags - not a big bloody skip. That was a few months ago. And now guess what has happened - yes that's right - there's another skip outside his door provided for by the Council again. So what did he learn - nothing. In fact he was rewarded for his lack of effort. It just makes you mad really. Yet again back to education. Show people like this what they're doing wrong and how to rightify it. Help them by all means but what they're doing isn't helping anything. Putting a plaster on a festering wound.

	Posted: 07-10-2008 , 02:59 PM #27
bluecurlygirl Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Big city of Belturbet Posts: 506	Just an example Our council don't provide green bins - that would be Cavan County Council - just to name and shame. My bin collection is a private collection as the only collection the Council does is the yellow bags that you pay €5 or something like that. The private collection isn't great either as it only collects the green bin once every four weeks. One of our neighbours - I kid you not - never leaves a bin out on Mondays (private collection day) or Tuesdays (council collection day) and with seven kids in the house we were all wondering where the waste was going. Then we discovered that he has cut a gateway out of his back garden fence which opens onto a field and he just hurls his rubbish in there. The council were made aware of this and eventually they provided him with a skip - where is the logic? Why not fine his a$$ first and make him recycle secondly and then fill the landfill bags - not a big bloody skip. That was a few months ago. And now guess what has happened - yes that's right - there's another skip outside his door provided for by the Council again. So what did he learn - nothing. In fact he was rewarded for his lack of effort. It just makes you mad really. Yet again back to education. Show people like this what they're doing wrong and how to rightify it. Help them by all means but what they're doing isn't helping anything. Putting a plaster on a festering wound.