Bins on site.

 and if they had informed their members about it?

I'm not sure why this is thought really necessary? If I join a club I don't think about how it is run and why bins were of one type on day and another the next, I just use them as they are.

Likewise, go anywhere for leisure and one uses the bins as they are. If that means a longer trip to get rid of rubbish then that's it.

It wasn't in one of these TW?

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/club-talk/club-membership/new-waste-arrangements/

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/sites-touring/uk-sites-touring/centralised-rubbish-points/?p=5

I haven't checked through either as I have little interest in the subject being of a similar mind to Corners.

peedee

No, the one I’m thinking of was very recent, PD, and I seem to recall a post from Rowena.🤷🏻‍♂️

TW wasn't the subject raised on a review of a site? Can't recall by whom or what site though.

I think this is the recent thread about bins🤔

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/sites-touring/uk-sites-touring/disappearing-dustbins/?er=P857465#P857465

Personally, I cannot see what all the fuss is about, other than that the Club has identified where a significant saving might be made, (bin liners are very expensive) and visitors having to develop a coping strategy for what are likely to be a small (but still valued) section of the overall numbers coming on site. Burrs CP had a big central area of bins just by the entrance, but also had numerous ordinary bins in the same area to help those who couldn’t lift lids, etc…. Probably the ideal scenario, and I appreciate maybe not replicated everywhere, but the sites as a whole are a lot nicer without the tractor run, the bin lids clashing, the crash of late night wine bottles every 100 metres IMO.

It might be worth reposting what Jolly Kernow (site warden) posted about a year ago for some context in terms of costs:-

Evening

So central bin points then. For clarity that was never introduced during covid, back then it was all about social distancing not encouraging people to gather.

We don't use plastic dustbins.

Willingcott site is a 150 pitch site with 5 service points (I've worked there before and helped build the new bin point this year). During a normal summer season, emptying the bins twice daily will use approx. 90 bags which in todays terms would cost around £70 per week. 

It's another of many trials to see how having a central point goes on sites and so far 4 months on it has been very well received.

I will be adopting it next year.

JK

Looked through both discussions and JK's post is the closest to any official confirmation that I have found and all he is pointing out is the costs on a single site. I might be dreaming this but I thought someone had mentioned this subject came up at one of the regional meetings and that was where the network wide costs were mentioned? 

David

You could well be right, WN, as I’ve seen lots of comments about bins in site reviews or maybe it cropped up in a thread on a slightly different topic. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Well done! That's the thread. I think you and WN have clarified things as the explanation I remember from Rowena was almost definitely in a site review. Now, if only I could remember which site…😂

I only found it as I knew I had posted on it, so just trawled back thru my own posts. 😁

JK’s explanation above seems to give the financial side of things, I know from my own work experience just how costly decent black bin liners are. Then there’s the time spent rumbling round site on tractor in man hours, fuel etc…. 

Personally, I’m up for anything within reason that keeps site costs down. There was a notice on the inside of most of the loos at Burrs explaining the reasons. The things you read at times,🤣 If it was me looking at costs, centralising bins would be only one of a raft of savings ideas. But most Members couldn’t live with my ideas🤭

We have just returned from Treamble Valley the big red bins are at the top of the site where you come in no problem you just put it in the car stop outside and put the ribbish in the bins