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Northleach irate over waste

9:09am Sunday 29th June 2008

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By Alex Love »

PEOPLE living in Northleach are irate with Cotswold District Council's new waste and recycling scheme.

At a town council meeting last Tuesday, resident Stephen Chilton was furious at the way the first day of the operation had been conducted.

"There was stuff left everywhere, bags hadn't been collected," he said. "If you run a commercial organisation like that people will go somewhere else - we don't have that option."

Mr Chilton said he was unimpressed with the way waste operatives carried out their jobs.

"I'm astounded by the ignorance of it all, I'm not pleased at paying rates for this" he commented. "I would like to know who is training these people, it's just mind-boggling."

Chris Hancock, mayor of Northleach and Eastington, agreed, he said: "Today was a shambles, without a doubt."

In response, Mark Tufnell, CDC councillor for Northleach ward, highlighted that the new system had in total reduced the amount of waste from 80 tonnes to 20 tonnes.

He appealed for time to get the system working properly and sort out any teething problems.

"We are trying our best, please try and be patient," he said. "It's something I'm going to make sure they work out."

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Andrew Carpenter, Cirencester says...
12:15pm Sun 29 Jun 08

Mark Tufnell, CDC councillor for Northleach ward, highlighted that the new system had in total reduced the amount of waste from 80 tonnes to 20 tonnes.

Because 60 tonnes of it are still sat on the pavements around the county waiting to be collected!

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pete the pirate, says...
9:39pm Sun 29 Jun 08

Some of it has been outside my gate for a week.
I'm conducting an experiment to see who gets to it first, CDC or the local wildlife.

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Libby D, Cirencester says...
10:59pm Sun 29 Jun 08

Pete the Pirate or is it Captain Pugwash.
If you read the Standard you would know which days to put the bins out on and that side waste in black bags will not be collected.
What do people expect, a man in a loudspeaker van going around at 7 in the morning. I think it is really rather good that we can now recycle cardboard and tins and bottles, without having to go to Tesco in the car.

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pete the pirate, says...
2:42pm Mon 30 Jun 08

Oh aren't you the the patronising one?
Actually I expect proper notification of when exactly my service is going to be changing, not some half-arsed effort and a last minute ad in the paper that I only had time to read AFTER my collection day. (Some people have busy lives you know)
Consistent information from CDC employees would also be a help. We were told there would be a "sweep" for those who did not know the new service had actually started. Now we are told that isn't the case.
So our bags and those of several neighbours are festering by the roadside.
For your information, Ms Holier than Thou, I also think it is a good idea we can recycle these things.
But judging by the comments I've seen on this website I am not the only counciltax payer who is unhappy with the way the changeover has been handled.

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