“It is all rubbish which has been there for years and will be there for years to come as nobody does anything about it. I went to the tip with a couple of bags of rubbish and they said I could not bring that in there, it goes against their rules. When I was at the tip, there were a few people standing about and they were flabbergasted, too." After writing to the Kent County Council about his nightmare experience, they confirmed that his volunteering was indeed for nothing as the tip workers were right and he needed to be a licensed waste collector.
Mr Shadbolt has spent hours picking up after others over the past few months but he may now think again before he reaches for the litter-picker. He said: “I was shocked. The council should be encouraging people to bring litter in and making it easy for them to make the place look nicer.” KCC spokesman Thom Morris confirmed the Faversham Household Waste Recycling Centre is for the use of members of the public to dispose of items “which originate from their own property” and would encourage litter-pickers to contact their district council in advance to arrange a collection.
He said: “Litter waste has no specific origin and by default could be hazardous. While we applaud the initiative, litter being picked up is not from a personal property and therefore you would need to be a registered waste carrier and this waste would need to be disposed of at a transfer station. Litter is a high priority in Kent, but we need to follow processes to ensure that waste is disposed of in the most appropriate way.”
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Give people a little bit of power and they lose all common sense.
I know businesses like restaurants try to throw trash like private persons instead of paying the fee for having a larger dumpster here. (nordic country)
I guess these rules have come from something similar, can anyone confirm or deny?
I imagine the concern is health and safety--but I do sympathize with the bloke
Seems to me the solution is to put it out in his own trash can to be picked up by the regular trash collector.
It's kind of different here, Barbwire. You have a wheelie bin, but the dust men won't pick it up if the garbage is so full that the lid pops up. Not kidding - one time our recycle bin had a cardboard lid sticking out of the bin. The dust men actually took that part out, dumped the rest, and then replaced that one piece of cardboard back where I had it. Also, our regular trash only gets taken once every other week.
Thanks for the explanation, Shak. Our garbage collectors aren't nearly so picky.
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