Our parks and recycling

[peckman]

Bins around peckham rye park full of cans bittle etc after picnics . Surely there should be recycling bins in the parks ! Surely! I have asked the council officers about this before and apparently logistics dont allow it but come on ..

[singalto]

Why, oh why don?t people take their rubbish home after a picnic?

[peckman]

Completely agree but suppose you have to chosse tge path of least resistance and at least an option of recycling IN PARKS is a start

[kiera]

They had large recycling containers on Peckham Rye which had to be removed due to people abusing the facility and using the site as a rubbish tip (as they did everywhere else where these containers were sited) so the council will probably be resistant to the idea after that experience. I think you're suggesting small recycling bins alongside the rubbish bins within the park and that's much more likely to work.

[seenbeen]

singalto Wrote:

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> Why, oh why don?t people take their rubbish home

> after a picnic?

Who knows? I expect it could be that many of them do not live in the area and use the park much....most locals do not poo on their own doorsteps.

[peckman]

We need to make it easier for people ! If they put it in bins at least they are trying .. just give them a choice of bins !

[peckman]

A park . Any park should be the place where recycling is promoted and encouraged !

[Nigello]

Surely any rubbish in a council-owned bin would be sorted and recycled at the plant, or does it all go to landfill? In the short term, putting two bins side by side could help.

[kiera]

Only items put in recycling bins is sorted in Southwark, at their Veolia depot.

[Nigello]

So the bins on the streets are emptied and just sent to landfill? Is there a second source on this, anyone? I'd've thought the rubbish would be somehow separated, at least to take out metal and glass.