i read with great interest the new scheme that will be used for rubbish collection. the leaflet, as far as i know did not state when it will start.
it sounds a great improvement.
why do people leave old furniture, builders rubble, bathrooms, kitchen units, you name it, by the rubbish containers or the garden waste areas. would this be done in the uk, germany, holland??????????
there is a great service at the local dump in empuriabrava, take your rubbish and builders materials there and stop making the rubbish container areas look so un-tidy.
how would you like old dors and windows dumped against your garden wall.
tell your builder or supplier and tell your self, dispose of waste properly.
we have a lovely town, lets keep it that way.
I quite agree with you John. It really bugs me when the bin if full because some lazy so and so has filled it with garden rubbish and the garden waste area is twenty yards away! Other lazy people then leave their bin bags by the bin for the cats to get at.
there is a great service at the local dump in empuriabrava, take your rubbish and builders materials there and stop making the rubbish container areas look so un-tidy.
Where is the dump in Empuriabrava? We are thinking of a new kitchen for our apartment. The dumpsters are just outside our building and we don't want all the junk from our old units cluttering up the street.
If someone could help us out that would be great.
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i read with great interest the new scheme that will be used for rubbish collection. the leaflet, as far as i know did not state when it will start.
it sounds a great improvement.
What's this new scheme? All the bins have gone from our road. If this is part of the new scheme then I'm not impressed!
I like to find the silver lining in every cloud...
I understand that dumping rubbish in unsuitable places can be an eyesore, but things like furniture and soforth is better left on the street than at the dump. At the dump the articles will simply be destroyed, whereas unwanted articles left on the street which have not yet reached the end of their usable lives (as is so often the case) can be collected and put to good use by those whose wallets are less royally filled, and reduces the need to continually purchase new things.
I love to find things on the street that I can put to good use, either for creative projects or simply for the intended use of such objects.
The dump is on Carrer de La Muga towards the end near the park where the Saturday morning fleamarket is held.
I have to say, a year after the new collection system has been in place, that it has worked very well. Lots of us had to get used to walking a bit further to the bin because there were fewer of them but having bigger bins instead of lots of bins has really made a difference to how the streets look and who can now remember where the old bins used to be? (I can because it was just outside the house, now it isn't, but you get my drift).
In most parts of town the whole recycling thing has been better organised. The garden waste areas have been reorganised so that many are now in proper fenced areas instead of by the roadside and rarely are the recycling containers too full to use.
There are of course still one or two problems that need sorting: Some people are still too lazy to use the bins or use them properly but I have to say that the council are really good at cleaning up after them and maybe, after a couple are executed, the problem will go away.
All in all a very good change.
EXCEPT FOR ONE THING!
(Rant mode ON)
The new bins have a foot lever. You use your foot to press the lever and the lid rises. Ideal when you have your hands full of rubbish bags. Why oh why then is almost every bin's foot lever facing the direction that is least accessible to us? If you don't believe me, go and look.
(Rant mode OFF)
Can't believe that I have just written about the bins. I should have made this a blog instead. Sorry.