Success of the household recycling collections means that Derbyshire Dales District Council are considering reducing the number of ‘bring’ recycling points. The sites under consideration for closure includes the one at the Sycamore Inn.
A council spokesman says:
Derbyshire Dales can probably now boast the top home recycling figure in the county thanks to local people recycling 8% more than at this time last year. Everything that can be recycled at bring sites can now be recycled at home.
We always anticipated the convenience of the household scheme would impact on our bring sites – that’s why we agreed to annually review the contract with H W Martin. To ensure the contract continues at no cost to Dales Council Tax payers it makes sense to close sites that require long travel distances or currently produce very low recycling yields.
We will of course clean and remove any screening from the sites that are scheduled to close and monitor each site to identify any potential fly-tipping issues.
To find out more go to the Derbyshire Dales District Council’s news update on their website.
What do you think about this in relation to the Parwich ‘bring’ recycling point at the Sycamore Inn? Do you still take any recycling to the containers at the pub? Do complete the poll below and add comments to this post.
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Does anyone know how often the bins at the Sycamore need emptying now? This would give an idea of how much they are still used.
I use them occasionally if I miss a domestic collection day, which otherwise results in a four week gap between collections. I also use them if I end up with a lot of one thing in the fortnight, usually paper/cardboard.
Presumably visitors/walkers need to use them to avoid putting recyclable rubbish in the general litter bin (or worse dropping it on the ground).
The 3 bins are emptied every week, they are always full so I think it is vital that we keep them. On Carnival week they could be filled twice over. I feel that many of the people that use these bins frequently aren’t online to vote. Some houses in the village don’t have room to store bins and use the recycling point all the time, not every one has cars to take recycling to Ashbourne. Holiday makers use these all the time as the blue bins don’t hold enough to last for two weeks. I think it is absolutely imperative that the village keeps this service.