Elf and safety mate

[lane]

People without cars are paying Council tax towards the cost of the tip.

 

[classic33]

Maybe true but the private company aren't at risk of prosecution if anything goes wrong in thousands of places.

Council contractors, seldom private companies running the whole show.

 

[Slick]

Council contractors, seldom private companies running the whole show.

All the tips that I can think off are private but the smaller local recycling centres are still local authority controlled. I have to show my licence to prove I have a local postcode to use ours.

 

[Slick]

Plus point of order I’ve seen the workers themselves arrive and leave by bike!

That's good.

 

[slowmotion]

Got same treatment on my camel

They probably didn't like the emotional support peacock perched on your shoulder.

 

[Gunk]

Designated pedestrian walkways.

Nobody will ever take responsibility for walk ins on such a site.

Ours in Oxford is chaos, there are no designated pedestrian walkways, on a Sunday there a cats and people everywhere. All seems to work though.

 

[Drago]

I have to show my licence to prove I have a local postcode to use ours.

Is that something the council mandate?

 

[Fab Foodie]

It’s simple discrimination against those that don’t have cars. Take the council to court.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ours in Oxford is chaos, there are no designated pedestrian walkways, on a Sunday there a cats and people everywhere. All seems to work though.

Cats? Must be Redbridge....

 

[Slick]

Is that something the council mandate?

Yeah, it's a fairly recent development when during an audit commercial waste was being tipped without any checks being carried out so any vehicle that looked remotely commercial was refused access and everyone had to prove they were local before being allowed in.

 

[Gunk]

Cats? Must be Redbridge....

Cars 🙄

 

[Domus]

There are pedestrian walkways, I have lived here 20 years and used the facility often, I walk round with my wheelbarrow with garden waste in the summer, the stuff is tipped over a wall into the different skips well away from all the mobile plant which has it's own separate entrance. When trucks do come and go they close public access anyway. I have been crossing busy roads since I was at primary school so I can manage to negotiate myself into a recycling centre.

Madness I say

 

[classic33]

There are pedestrian walkways, I have lived here 20 years and used the facility often, I walk round with my wheelbarrow with garden waste in the summer, the stuff is tipped over a wall into the different skips well away from all the mobile plant which has it's own separate entrance. When trucks do come and go they close public access anyway. I have been crossing busy roads since I was at primary school so I can manage to negotiate myself into a recycling centre.

Madness I say

I'm at more risk, from their vehicles, on the road than at any of the recycling centres.

 

[Drago]

Yeah, it's a fairly recent development when during an audit commercial waste was being tipped without any checks being carried out so any vehicle that looked remotely commercial was refused access and everyone had to prove they were local before being allowed in.

And the council insist on that, not the contractor?

I can understand commercial waste being kept at bay, but who in earth wouldn't drive to their nearest tip?

 

[lane]

You would have to walk or cycle past the very long que of cars waiting to get in the tip on a sunny Sunday afternoon