Lynnbottom Tip reopened last week, but only taking certain types of rubbish, meaning household waste has been starting to pile up for some.
Instances have been occurring across the Island where black bin bags full of household rubbish have been put into public bins — one case in East Cowes saw the bin bag split and spread litter across the street.
However, the Isle of Wight Council and waste contractors, Amey, have a policy of only picking up the rubbish that goes inside the black wheelie bins — but take unlimited amounts of recycling.
Local resident Gary Leal found that the 2 extra bags of rubbish he put out on bin day were marked with stickers explaining the waste collectors would not take the excess. He said:
“I thought during this very difficult time we as a community would pull together and relax some of the rules, especially with regards to waste collection as more waste is being generated at home.
“Unfortunately, this is not the case and our bags were left with a label explaining that they don’t collect extra bags.”
When he called the Isle of Wight Council to discuss his options, Mr Leal was told that people should not be generating more rubbish and that it should be mostly recycling anyway.
He said:
“This has left me feeling very upset and disappointed with our local refuse company and I know just by looking about that I am not the only one.
“Their recycling service and customer service are both rubbish, in my opinion.”
The Isle of Wight Council has said it will phase in taking general waste to the recycling centres over the coming weeks as it tests the social distancing measures but hope the unlimited recycling collections would encourage more people to maximise recycling collected in the green bins – Litta Rubbish Clearance.
A spokesperson said:
“Very few items that are set out at the kerbside are not recyclable, and sadly we still see a lot of recycling set out in black bags.
“There is not significantly more black bag waste and the majority of the island have responded very well to the council’s encouragement to keep on recycling which has been reflected in significantly more recycling being produced.
“The collection crews are following the correct procedure [putting] stickers on black bags left out alongside bins and reusable sacks — educational training talks and reminders are issued if a crew member is not following the policy.
“The Island has done a fantastic job for the first seven weeks of lockdown keeping their waste down and recycling up, which really does support our key workers at a time when we are stretched to our limits.
“We do ask that residents keep up the amazing effort they have put in.”
How Pathetic of Amey the time it takes them to go back to the dustcart get the stickers then walk back to put them on the two extra bags they might as well just of picked them up & took them & slung em on the back of the wagon no wonder people are fly tipping their rubbish the council are causing the problem themselves & how much money is being wasted to have these stickers printed they must be using hundreds if not thousands of them a day Money which could be better spent on other services. Jobsworth springs to mind it really does
So if every household has two extra bags how do u expect them to finish there work. They are out the door at 6am and not back till 6pm most days and only have a certain amount of driving hours. Alot of the time things in black bags can be recycled.
Perhaps consider that their contract with the IoW Council doens’t permit them to take items NOT in the black bins.
Dont blame the collection men they do a good job
Except for the trail of rubbish and the odd occasional broken bottle
Is it there job to throw my bins all over the place and break them. We have to leave them nice and neat on the curb. Come back home to find them across the pavement on there side all the time. Ive even seen them do it. They dont give a shit.
The problem here is that when Amy took over waste collection there was a whole plethora of do’s and don’t’’s as to what could be put out. Extra black bags was a BIG (supposed) no no.
However, I have witnessed over many months this being ignored by the Bin-men (and women), and everything has been thrown into the truck.
Now, all of a sudden, they (or at least some over-paid and brain dead idiot in the‘management’) has decided not to anymore despite the fact that the public is not allowed to take ‘general waste’ to the Tip.
Of course households will generate more rubbish during a prolonged period of enforced ‘imprisonment’, it is blindingly obvious that would happen.
Why oh why can’t it just go to the tip….with the time slot going on it shouldn’t be a problem or is it the council just being bloody awkward again
Most Black bag waste is processed and incinerated
How strange. My comment is ‘awaiting moderation’…… is it because I used the word pooh?
Perhaps if Cllr Leal recycled more and saved what was over for the next black bag collection he would not be so “very up set and disappointing.” People love to bang on about recycling but when it comes to it they are often too lazy to separate their waste and jam it all into black sacks. Well done Amey for sticking to your guns.
Bin men are all so rude and confrontational and they always leave a trail of rubbish behind them and don’t put the bins back where they found them.Instead there thrown anywhere on the payment creating an obstacle course for pedestrians,not good for the old or young mums with kids and a pushchair let alone a mobility scooter…..Amey our hopeless and should loose the contract.I miss Biffa
To Amey recycling is a choice not a Law!!!
Blame the council, not Amey.
The council wrote the contract, detailing exactly how Amey should work, so the council are the people directly responsible for the situation.
Typical, Amey and the Council cannot agree on anything. The black bags that are split and rubbish all over the road are more likely due to wildlife ripping them open for scraps of food, because people are to lazy to put them out early in the morning, instead they put them out late at night. So please don’t blame the bin men. Would you do that job?
Worse thing the council did was sell out, but then they always want as much cash without doing anything to help us normal islanders.
Question. Where do these people get all this so called rubbish from?
People have been stuck in their homes and have decided to do ‘big clear outs’ to pass the time. This inevitably will case more rubbish. In normal circumstances a tip run would have been the order of the day – but the council closed it. Not too sure why you couldn’t see that.
You’ve slipped up there Gary me ole son. Never moan to a binman/binwoman, they always have the upper hand!! They’ve also got memories like elephants and obviously like using stickers.
When exactly did this so-called policy of not taking black bags at the kerbside come in then? You’ve only had to walk through Sandown and Shanklin on any bin day in the last year or so to see swathes of black bags piled up for the bin men to collect.
Sometimes (rarely) you might get some binmen put stickers on them but not often. And when/if they do then IslandRoads just come along and collect it the next day. Not exactly rocket science to find who dumps the rubbish is it but no one is bothered.
And then binmen often chuck black bags into the wagon on recycling day too so what is the point of all this virtue signalling llocks. ???
But find an easy non-effort target to mona at when they try to dispose of rubbish at the tip……
Useless IWC again!
Still at least now we just get the readily grabbed default of “oh it’s because of coronavirus”
Now the standard stock answer instead of even thinking up a half-baked excuse.
OK so they are not taking the extra bags, put stickers on them, and the bags just stay at the kerbside, how much does it then cost for Island Roads to come along and remove them as they are obstructing the footpath …it be cheaper all round for they guys n girls just to chuck em in the back of the truck
So here we are in a health crisis, a pandemic, being constantly lectured to wash our hands, clean all surfaces, not to touch anything or anyone and unable to get rid of our waste and rubbish. Beggars belief.
I tried booking a slot at Afton to get rid of green garden rubbish and found no slots available in the next six weeks.
As for Lynbottom – it should have been an either or system not both.
Either: allow queueing along the road OR booking slots – not both are needed to make it work.
Simples.
The one-way, 30mph traffic regulation is set for 18 months – see official notices.
Who on Earth at the council came up with that ! ?
This has left me feeling upset and very disappointed. Get a life for god sake is that all you have to worry about in your life. Try
buying stuff with less packaging and re-cyle properly . Why should we have to pay for your excessive waste, pull
yourself together and actually think why am i such a miserable git.
Tell us how you manage to buy stuff with less packaging, please. We want guidance.
So, our council tax rises year on year, our bin service now means we have to haul it to roadside, AND sort it, BUT then not put on too much.
They can whistle. If everyone had not pandered to them, then they would have to sort it themselves, after all they make the money on the re cycled items and there are enough of them at the tip worried that you are dumping something you shouldn’t, unless they can take it and make a few sly pounds on it, then its ok.
The elderly and dim love to think they are ‘saving the environment’ when all they are doing is paying more for a poorer service and enrichening these companies by doing their dirty work for them.
NOT I.
i have watched refuse collectors look around and then throw all rubbish into the back of the lorry – recyclable in with non recyclable. they do not care.
they chuck recyclable cardboard etc in to incinerators with non recyclable stuff – because the rest doesn’t burn properly without easily combustible stuff.
The crazy charade is that a household of 3+ has the same size bin, how is anyone able to quantify
Amounts of refuse to size of family. It is clearly a fault of design and typical poorly thought out
Procedure by those in charge. Should they get the sack?
How can a recycle bin be bigger than general waste, how dare they refuse to take a little bit extra
They want team work, but seem oblivious to the size of your household.
Most of the product they are taking is AIR, so crush as much as you can.
Milk the cravendale type put a little hot water in, swill, tip out and crush, will go flat!
Any other tips welcomed.
Extra black bags not taken this week with lovely little stickers on them, 7 grown adults locked down currently in our house hence extra waste and unable to access the tip !, you’d of thought during this lockdown period some common sense would come into play ?apparently not ….
As a partner of someone that works for amey, I worry everyday for all their health and safety at the best of times let alone in these times, with infected tissues, Nappies, dog mess, cat litters and everything having god knows what bacteria, germs and viruses al over the rubbish! They all do an outstanding essential job. I’m appalled that people actually blame the workers when their NOT the ones who make the rules. If you walk out whilst the bin Men are outside your house and ask politely “could I put these in the back please” the bin men will actually help you out! Just ask
Ironic advice after this decision…. May 5th, a residential building divided into flats did not have the excess waste taken, due to regulation that all excess waste must go to the tip. I phoned council to tell them their tip is closed and the waste left on street and being that anyone could carry the virus with no symptoms, that surely it would be common sense not to leave it lying about, knowing the tip option is not available. They told me they would request it to be collected. Days later I call them to let them know the waste remains on the street waiting ? Then it is bank holiday. By this point I have twice rebagged the rubbish become strewn into road. I call again Monday and am given apology and an email address for relevant person to take the matter up with further. Still no reply. Further phone call to council to explain I am at complete loss what to do and the obvious environmental and health hazard this poses. This phone call did not go well. I phoned environmental health who told me they could not become involved ? Now on the 11th of may, the tip reopens…. BUT we can not take black bin waste to the tip ? And excess waste shall not be taken by bin men? Sooo ? We have an island of potentially virus spreading rubbish bags nobody can get rid of Also … I have got to the bottom of why the Isle of Wight council waste collections, regarding excess waste not being taken despite tip having been closed, and opting to leave many residents with bags of waste strewing the streets, despite our extraordinary circumstances and the obvious risk this could pose…. is because all the bin trucks have been fitted with cameras, and bin men have been told that 3 random trucks will be monitored, and any bin men seen removing excess waste shall be sacked. My conversation with the bin men today, explaining to Me all the little old ladies that always leave them a cake or treat as Thankyou, and they’ve had to stick them with the orange sticker. Can imagine how that makes them feel ?!
Anyway, one has expressed how this is all kinds of wrong, very politely in an email to the local MP You have a good day now.
The council now need to get the road sweepers out too clean up the excess rubbish coming out of these now ripped open bags,there is tissues and other crap blowing about on my street,I might as well not use bin bags and just throw my rubbish on the street,with the rest of the crap!!!!!
We had that problem with our collection. A household of 4 adults and a 9 month old. Filled the bin within one week so then extra bags. These were being collected until today.
We rang up and are now getting a bigger black bin even though we have to wait a week to get it.