Stupidity of Argyll and Bute Council
Posted: Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
This is what the Island is fast becoming, a dumping ground.
The Government have stated that appox 50% of all waste COULD be recycled, so what do Argyll and Bute Council do? They enforce us to recycle 50% of our waste, they do this by cutting collections of waste to every other week. We have no general dump (Oh, the Council say we can take any excess waste to the dump on Islay but we have to pay the sum of 拢13.00 - on a council owned ferry), we have no skip, so what do people do?
As you can see, the bins in the village are pretty full (and this is at the end of the season), after two weeks. BUT DO NOT WORRY, the council are emptying the bins tomorrow!
The bin men have been told not to collect anything, not in the bins.
The Council seem to think that all this is created by the Islanders, not so!
Maybe we should rename Jura, Dumpa because you can dump your rubbish here but the Council will not take it away.
The rat population is rising like mad, rat hole prices are going through the roof (litrally) and outstripping house prices by some 84.76%.
I'll keep you posted.
Stephen
Comments
I see you've joined our club. The Red Cross in the White Box Club.
Ruthodanort from Unst
Hi Stephen - we're having some problems with images at the moment. Hopefully it'll be sorted shortly.
Anne from IBHQ
We are joining the island dump club next month. The council are closing the coup, giving us blue wheelie bins for recycling and dropping the refuse collection to once a fortnight. The rat problem is bad enough already and as for recycling being good for the environment, all our rubbish is now to be transported at massive cost bothe economically and eniromentally to the mainland. We are also getting a new high school wheather we want one or not. The existing high school is only 25 years old, in excellent nick and everyone was perfectly happy with it. It's to be levelled to make a car park for the new school which is being built on the playing fields, so no more playing fields... Perhaps the council think our kids are too thin and need to spend more time being driven to school and not exercising.Meanwhile the Hospital is in a desparate state but there's no cash for that. What's that smell? Is it rotten rubbish, council corruption or my blood boiling?
Sunny from Arran
You all can join the Red X in the White Box Club if you like. I am determined to be the lone member of the White ? in a Blue Box Club. What a start for jurastores. He'll be thinking islandblogging is an asylum...........come to think of it...........
Flying Cat from any club that wants me as a member..........
Hi Anne, shortly, as in hours, days or weeks?
Stephen from Isle of Jura
Stephen, hours, days or weeks sounds wildly optimistic as we approach another weekend of inaction.
Flying Cat from past caring
another great festival but I noticed a lot of regular faces not being there i.e. fiddlers, accordians, bodhrans etc. Still a great weekend as always and I noticed there was a skip and it got emptied on the Monday.
Ken from Clydebank
Can't you do like we used to do - get a burn barrel, you know, a 55-gallon barrel with pick holes made in its side for air and just burn this stuff? I mean, how much garbage can 188 souls + visitors generate. The other benefit would be (playing along with the current hoax commonly known as 'global warming') that Jura would accelerate the time, as in years gone by, when you could substitute the red deer with a more interesting herd like zebra, buffalo or even elephants as Jura again becomes a subtropical paradise - like, say, the Maldive Islands. Bring on 'global warming' - especially in the winter!
Peter Johnstone from Mercer Island, WA USA
Peter, SEPA would be giving everyone a fine for burning rubbish, 拢20k if I was to do that, having the shop. If I could, I would burn everything as I would like a hole in the ozone over Jura and as for the Tax called Global Warming, please don't get me started. In fact I feel a blog comming on.
Stephen from Jura
Living on the Isle of Jura
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