Centralised rubbish points

You are the myth buster JK👍🏻. It’s proving to be a super power that is used for good. No one else on the CAMC payroll seems interested in nipping the ‘CAMC bashing’ in the bud. It seems to me a good way to prevent the attacks becoming the usual epidemic👏🏻👏🏻

I loathe excessive waste and have often thought that using numerous plastic bin bags for just a small amount of waste and a few items of recycling in each bin which I often see on sites, whilst very convenient, is in my view not a good idea, so I am all for having one specific area for waste disposal.  Anyone who has problems taking their rubbish to the area or accessing the bins, could simply ask the Warden for assistance.

It's a definite C from me, much prefer the centralised idea always avoided pitching near the bins if we could. 

 Pluses are, saves getting woken by the warden on his smelly diesel tractor in a morning.

No noise from folk disposing of rubbish (think glass bottles)

No gathering of folk having loud conversations (why does everyone shout these days) 

Saving work for the staff

Saving money on black bags

Might encourage folk to use the correct bin

Negatives, you might have to walk/drive a bit further to the bin. 

All in all a much better idea. 

All this proves is that there is no "one size fits all" as regards waste collection on sites. Neither here nor "over there". There are to many variables, site size, lay out, collection services (LA or private contractors). 're-cycling targets etc. It is clear to all that there is no cohesive 're-cycling policy in the UK, everywhere is different. On our recent month long tour of East Anglia no site was the same, indeed, at Seacroft everything went in the same bin, no sorting at all, this was done off site by the refuse collectors. We were pitched not far from a service point and it was interesting to see that despite signs informing members of this fact, people standing looking  confused wondering what to do with their carefully separated waste. Hey ho.

indeed, at Seacroft everything went in the same bin, no sorting at all, this was done off site by the refuse collectors.

That was the case at a few sites we visited in the south and south east. Trouble is folk then go to another site with separate bins and still throw it all in one.

I do wonder with the one bin systems just how useable cardboard and paper is when it is contaminated with who knows what.

A number of local authorities have had a general recycling and a separate paper & card bin for some years now. Lincolnshire is in the process of rolling this out. Reason is exactly the point you make about contamination of card and paper. So good from a recycling point of view BUT it’s another bin to accommodate.

🤣 “You said………..we (live in hope)”👍

I simply can’t get excited by this. Stayed on plenty of non CAMC sites with single location rubbish points (and for that matter grey water and toilet disposal points too). We were once on a site in France with about 5 different separate waste containers. The council bin wagon arrived and promptly emptied them all into the back of the truck….. so much for the recycling! 

looks like a big thumbs up for centralised collection and some very valid points about the ecological savings.

Guess I’ll just have to get used to it.

Well it's great that you posted back to say that Chelty