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Old Kent Road Recycling centre is now accepting cardboard!

Ginnie

By Ginnie
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kford

kford

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Ginnie Wrote:

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> Does anyone know why the Southwark recycling

> centre on the Old Kent Road is not accepting any

> of the regular materials that go in your blue

> recycling bins? I took a car full of cardboard

> there and was told that it had to go in the

> household waste section. I don?t understand the

> logic of this when there is so much extra

> cardboard around to be recycled due to all the

> home deliveries being made.


The recycling truck has always taken our oversize cardboard waste, if left next to the blue bin

rjsmall

rjsmall

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We have had them take large cardboard that was placed next to the blue bin in the past. This week I had placed some cardboard (folded and flat) against the blue bin and it was just left so it may depend upon the mood of the bin men.
Sue

Sue

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monkeyspanner Wrote:

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> We have the same experience as RJ and KidK - I

> wondered if it's some covid rule?



That would make sense, though surely they have to handle the bins which will have been touched by others?

Rockets

Rockets

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I think the cardboard section at the OKR site had been removed during Covid to allow for social distancing between the bays. The first time I went there during Covid (incidentally because the council stopped collecting recycling that was not in the blue bin - they had done previously) I was surprised there was no longer a cardboard section but glad to read it is back.
Clutterqueen

Clutterqueen

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rjsmall Wrote:

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> We have had them take large cardboard that was

> placed next to the blue bin in the past. This week

> I had placed some cardboard (folded and flat)

> against the blue bin and it was just left so it

> may depend upon the mood of the bin men.


Or the mood of the bin women! A few weeks ago we had a new bin woman collecting on the street.


For the first time in ages I left out a small cardboard box against my recycling bin and watched as she just looked at it and left it.

alex_b

alex_b

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monkeyspanner Wrote:

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> We have the same experience as RJ and KidK - I

> wondered if it's some covid rule?


We?ve had cardboard by the side of the bin collected during COVID. It?s not 100% though. They also never seem to take it if it is/has been damp.

alex_b

alex_b

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J27 Wrote:

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> Thanks DKHB - The problem is that we've got a huge

> backlog now, and I think it would overwhelm the

> driver!

> Yes, I'll have a look in the store - maybe they

> have got them again now...

> J


We gave hundreds to the Ocado driver when they started accepting them again. He didn?t seem surprised or mind at all.

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