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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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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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