Posted: 26 February 2010 at 11:16 | IP Logged

Important.

If you or someone you know are unable to move your / their wheelie bins from your / their property to the roadside due to illness or disability you can apply for an ASSISTED COLLECTION.

This can be done by filling in the form available from this link

ASSISTED COLLECTION

A Confirmation Letter from a Community Councillor will be sufficient to accompany the form.

Posted: 26 February 2010 at 16:29 | IP Logged

If indeed you have any wheelie bins... There is a certain amount of confusion on this one. It seems, so far as I can gather, that houses with inadequate or no bin storage spece (like Church St, for example) will be "allowed" to carry on using bags. I suppose therefore it might be possible for an elderly/disabled person to ask for the same "concession".

However, some houses, (including mine) with storage space have yet to receive bins.  I phoned DCC this morniong to be told that "We are now in Phase Five of the Activation Plan"  (Which reminded me of the kind of thing the Daleks say in "Dr Who" when they planning to blow up the Earth). I was told to call again on Monday if I still haven't received any bins by then... So guess what I will be doing on Monday....

Given that collections of the bins are supposed to begin next Friday, it would be worth any other binless households which think they should have been provided with them to contact DCC Customer Services Centre on Monday as well....

Posted: 05 March 2010 at 12:48 | IP Logged

Well, so far today, the new "system" seems a total dog's breakfast  (as indeed a lot of the refuse will be if it isn't shifted). Certainly along Denbigh St , no pink bags have been removed.. If this was the intention, why were those of us using bags not previously informed?

So far as the dinky little orange bins are concerned, refuse collectors seem to be carefully opening each one and carrying the bag containing its contents to the refuse waggon... seems like a somewhat redundant extra step has been added here.

Not clear what else, if anything, was being emptied.

At 8.am this morning three assorted refuse wagons, crewed by six men, had formed themselves into a kind of log-jam in Bryn Tirion.... Dog knows how many were lurking in other recesses of the village....A driver told me that there would be "more wagons" next week

So.... DCC is displaying its usual flair!