Sometimes I despair of East Herts Council. It appears that they want to introduce wheelie bins on to Folly Island.
Further to some enquiries made from residents when I was Chairman of the residents association in 2001 it was made very clear to me by East Herts Council that there was no way they were going to allow wheelie bins on the island for the collection of household waste.
We were to continue to use plastic sacks; they could be any colour as long as they were those as issued by the Council ie pink or mauve.
Then they said all plastic sacks must be left on resident’s curtilage before 7.00am for collection and not as had been done, placed with all others on various corners of the island to make it easier for the bin man to collect them in one lorry.
Then came recycling which was fine as it goes except that all rubbish despite it being glass, plastic, paper, cardboard or greenery was all placed in the same lorry. What is the point of separating greenery from the rest if the brown bag given for foliage is thrown in with the rest.
We are now back to using coloured sacks once our allocation of free sacks has been used up (any colour – white, black or see through) and to make life easier bin men place them all together on various corners to collect later once they’ve done the recycling bins..
I know times have moved on and residents move off the Island or regrettably pass away and new people with new views move on but the essence of democracy remains.
Yesterday a leaflet came through our door to say that Easy Herts Council are going to introduce wheelie bins for everyone. There has been no consultation of residents from Council nor have I seen anything official from the present Folly Island Association.
So good on Keeley Haylett for producing a leaflet to go in resident’s window objecting to this move. Good to see that there is still some life out there.
Please sign the petition at Change.org. The reasons to reject wheelie bins are fully explained there.
