Christopher Whiteside MBE is currently chairman of Whitehaven & Workington Conservatives. He writes this blog in a personal capacity. He previously stood for parliament in Copeland and Leeds NE.
He has served as a County, City & District, Borough, Town and Parish councillor, and has also been a school governor and health authority member. He is currently an Egremont Town Councillor.
He lives and works in the North of England, dividing his time between Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Pay people for recycling like the americans and aussies do. People would actually go around cleaning the beaches and road sides.
I remember many years ago when the first supermarket to introduce the £1 deposit for a trolley was Presto (became Safeway and was located where argos is in whitehaven now) Anyway, The docks had an endless problem with trolleys until that happened. I also used to be in the Sea Cadets, and can tell you if i ever found a trolley i took it back, £1 - ta.
everyone wins. basically instead of letting the councils sell off recycling stuff, let the public deal with those sellers directly.
Not really. when i was a kid we returned POP bottles to the shop and got 10p each for them, When i was a kid i often returned bottles for people who did not fancy the walk. hey we all returned milk bottles every morning.
its hardly a new ground breaking idea. the only thing is that the payments stopped.
Anonymous said…
Jim, you haven't to look back at how things were done better in the olden days, you've got embrace the brave new world and accept the 'progress' that has been made.
I remember when me and my fried made a cart we could pull behind us, we took 25 pop bottles back and we made £2.50 for doing it. We felt like zillionaires
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I remember many years ago when the first supermarket to introduce the £1 deposit for a trolley was Presto (became Safeway and was located where argos is in whitehaven now) Anyway, The docks had an endless problem with trolleys until that happened. I also used to be in the Sea Cadets, and can tell you if i ever found a trolley i took it back, £1 - ta.
everyone wins. basically instead of letting the councils sell off recycling stuff, let the public deal with those sellers directly.
its hardly a new ground breaking idea. the only thing is that the payments stopped.
I think you have a point, Jim, that we ought to look again at some of the recycling ideas that worked successfully in the past.