Reopen Recycle Centres / Tips

Reopen the recycle centers so people can dispose of large waste / garden waste during the lockdown. To minimize impact this could be done by limiting people visiting at one time by booking a slot in advance via phoning or a website.

Why the contribution is important

Currently people can only use the bins they have for the usual fortnightly collections. As summer approaches and everyone is doing the gardens, decorating and such to pass lockdown time, we are generating more waste with nowhere to put it (certainly in our area we don't have garden waste bins).

Not to mention we are building up other waste as well as everything is now delivered in large oversized packaging which doesn't always fit in the bins.

Help us all slowly start to get back to normal by making house less cluttered and more habitable by slowly reopening waste facilities.

by LPatrick on May 08, 2020 at 08:59AM

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Based on: 33 votes

Comments

  • Posted by EdinburghVet May 08, 2020 at 09:06

    This can be done without putting people at risk and will reduce the fly tipping, which has become a significant problem in the Scottish Borders

  • Posted by AliMacDonald01 May 08, 2020 at 09:30

    Can be done without putting people at risk, badly needed to cope with all the clearing out people are doing just now.

  • Posted by eaparsons May 08, 2020 at 09:43

    I think recycling centres should be open as I consider them essential as we don't have kerbside recycling yet

  • Posted by lmg1612 May 08, 2020 at 09:55

    If B&Q and Costa are deemed essential why not tips/recycling centres? I've asked this question of my local MSP, still waiting on an answer...

  • Posted by Kim May 08, 2020 at 10:34

    these should be opened, to provide the fly tipping. Normally when you go to the recycle centres you need to wait in a queue till someone is finished anyway to get you car in so this is be less risk here and minimum adjustments required.

  • Posted by Jamg May 08, 2020 at 10:39

    It should be easy to maintain social distancing at council tips both by staff and users - maybe need a booking system and control of the initial surge but would help protect the environment.

  • Posted by MSW68 May 08, 2020 at 10:45

    The huge increase in fly-tipping locally is a direct result of closing recycle centres/tips to the public, from an environmental health aspect they must be re-opened now.

  • Posted by deky1boy May 08, 2020 at 12:56

    Essential to get this done - there is never a problem distancing at local recycling centres and absolutely vital that people can move on the rubbish they have been generating for DIY and gardening during lockdown.

  • Posted by JoeBloggs May 08, 2020 at 15:26

    We must open recycle centres as soon as safely possible. Fly-tipping is becoming a major problem. Other possibility would be to increase kerb-side collections where possible, but I fully realise that this requires more resource use by local councils, and probably not possible at the moment.
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