A Tramore Town Councillor wants householders to get up early and leave out their recycling bags for collection, rather than doing so the previous night.
Cllr Pat Finnerty wants the County Council to adopt a bye-law prohibiting the bags being left out overnight. And furthermore he wants the bags removed again if the service provider fails to collect them on the appointed day.
Proposing a motion to that effect at the Town Council’s February meeting, he said bags left out through the night were being split open, sometimes by roaming pets, and the contents scattered all over the place. The Council then had to expend valuable resources cleaning up the mess.
Cllr Tom Raine enquired of Cllr Finnerty if he really expected people to get up at 6 am to put out their bags for collection. He said he did.
Cllr Lola O’Sullivan agreed that certain areas were awash with litter too much of the time, a contributory factor being that animals were attracted to waste bags containing food containers which were not properly cleaned for disposal.
Cllr Ann Marie Power accused Cllr Finnerty of wanting to punish people who did the right thing, putting the relevant rubbish out for collection rather than disposing of it illegally. She submitted that the measures he was proposing would lead to a mass exodus of customers from the Council service to private operators. “If that happens we are shagged”, she suggested.
Despite that, however, the motion was passed by a majority vote.
the town is awash with rubbish so this wont make much difference,have a look around by the boating lake,its a disgrace.
People like Cllr Pat Finnerty should not hold responsible positions such as the one he holds when he dreams up ridiculous ideas like expecting people to get up for 6 a.m. to put out refuse. We need inteligent people in these positions not inadequate people with no clue.
Do you not use bins now ??
We have a system here in Lancashire, we have 2 big bins, a green and a grey, plus 3 thick blue plastic bags and a large blue plastic box , The green bin for garden rubbish…ie cuttings, grass, leaves twigs, is collected outside the gate/door with the plastic box which contains tins, plastic bottles,one week, then the following week the grey bin which contains household rubbish, ie scraps of food, the usual house rubbish,and the blue plastis bags with newspapers etc is collected then. It was quite confusing at first, even with the booklet the council gave us!! It seems to work perfectly well now. Animals can’t rummage into the large bins & they are not bothered with newspapers etc. The large bins etc are kept at the back of the house/ garden. no mess endured.
I can imagine how having all plastis bags must attract allsorts of animals..They can smell an old bone from a mile away!!!
Vera x