To wish they'd reopen the recycling centers?

[feelinguseless78]

They closed the tips at the start of lockdown and fly tipping and bonfires have gone up massively in our area as a result.

I appreciate that they constitute a non essential journey to use them, but I feel they're the lesser evil!

AIBU?

YABU - they should remain closed
YANBU - yes they should reopen

Our city is already under-tipped, and every weekend sees the tailbacks through the industrial estate and spilling out clogging up the main road. The longer it is shut, the more problematic it will be when it reopens.

Brown bins (garden/food) were aborted the first week of social distancing before lockdown so 3 cycles have been missed so far (fortunately I have compost bins which deals with soft garden waste but not twiggy and prickly clippings)

The council did source additional staffing to maintain the recycling bins, but they are struggling to complete the rounds.

The black general bins are prioritised and continuing fortnightly as usual.

We already had a backlog of bulky recyclable waste filling the garage for the dump from completing a major DIY project over Christmas then clearing out as we swapped rooms. We had been waiting for a weekend when it wasn't pissing down with rain but the lockdown beat us to it. Plus some stuff was piled up in the newly vacated spare room, except that has spent the last 5 weeks in limbo on the landing as DH had to clear the room again to set up his home office.

As I've said several times already my husband was treated like absolute shit for attempting to enforce social distancing at his recycling site because "the tax payers pay his wages" and he should be doing what suits them basically.

I'm sorry he's been treated so appallingly and I really hope that the police pursue and charge the people who've done this. But if the shops and everything else are anything to go by, I can't believe that the vast majority of people would behave this way. Like so many things in life, we need to punish the few wrongdoers and remove their ability to act unacceptably rather than just take away essential services from everybody. If you closed everything that a few people might abuse, we'd have nothing open at all - ever.

Government guidance states states HWRCs can remain open where social distancing can be maintained.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-to-local-authorities-on-prioritising-waste-collections/guidance-on-prioritising-waste-collection-services-during-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic

I expect they are not open as the council won’t pay for security to stop the arseholes getting in and abusing the staff.

Not all waste can go in a black or green bin and may represent a public health risk if stored at home.

At my local HWRC there are a number of different skips which you put your stuff in. a lorry then turns up and tows the skip away. Normally the site attendants would assist if the item is bulky or heavy. However, if they were open I do think everyone should have to top there own waste.

puffinandkoala, that's very unusual. Most tips do not allow foot traffic on the sites at all - vehicles only (they are traceable).

puffinandkoala, that's very unusual. Most tips do not allow foot traffic on the sites at all - vehicles only (they are traceable)

erm, that's what I said?

I also think they're not open because councils don't like having to deal with waste at the best of times and it's an excuse to save money.

Where I live, the tips are run by the county council, but flytipping has to be dealt with the district council, so there's no incentive for the county council to fulfil its obligations because it doesn't have to pay for the cost of dealing with fly-tipping.

No, you didn't - you said 'most, if not all arrive in their cars'.

As for councils not liking to deal with waste, that's bogus. They're mandated to be law and will not be saving money due to having to close. Site staff will either be on site doing other tasks or they'll be moved on to other work - and the waste won't be magically disappearing either.

What you say about the costs of fly-tipping aren't correct either. You must be in England as there are both waste disposal and waste collection authorities - the county councils are generally waste disposal authorities which is why the districts are doing the collections.

YANBU. I know they’re filling in gaps with bin men etc. But I’ve seen the council cutting grass and other non important things, would much rather the tip was open!

I'm the same, I was planning on ordering a new bin for the garden waste, can't order one, they don't have any dealings with people, just leave the bin at the allocated house and that's it. But I assume it's a lot to do with the service being suspended. (Don't so much mind it's not collected as I can fill the bin and when it's collected it's collected). But I can't take all the garden waste to the tip either so I've got bags of weeds and grass cuttings piling up in the garden. I don't have the space to start composting and even if I did, I would need to buy stuff to build a composter. So now I'm utilising plastic I wouldn't normally need to use.

I would have thought it's fairly easy for people to keep their distance at the tip only x amount of people in the tip at once etc. But I guess it also comes down to the council being able to pay wages and have enough people to keep it running safely, I guess you also have people who need to empty the skips, sort the rubbish etc so probably not that easy.

I've also got some bags of cloths and old bits I want to donate but again all the bins are closed.

Exactly @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll