Charges to empty brown bins among Derby City Council's plans

“Wonderful - spend millions of pounds on a rebuild of the council house, including restaurants and a gym, and then fleece us to pay for brown bin emptying, already supposedly paid for in our council taxes - who is going to pay for the clean up when fly tipping becomes the norm again? No doubt the council tax payer again!!!!”

“Just a reply to the movg4wdinthe if you think the out side contractors are cheaper then why is the DLO using thousands of pounds from its budget it should not be using PUTTING THERE SHODDY WORK WRITE, a cheap price means a cheap job,”

“Find out where your local labour councillor lives - and dump the rubbish in their front garden.”

“This will create fly tipping on a huge scale, and as already mentioned aren't we already paying for this service ( on occasions poor) through our council tax?
also who will be paying for the emptying of the brown bins for the immigrants who are already milking our system and the other benefit scroungers ? oh silly me ME AND OTHER TAXPAYERS!!!!!!!!”

“I'm not sure if anyone has commented on the following point but if we all decide to send our brown bins back, thus saving the proposed £40+ charge, great!

The only thing I can see is that, as we are already paying for this currently in our Council Tax then the Council will make money as they will receive your money for a service that it does not provide!?
The current charge is set to rise next year, not come down, whether you have your brown bin collected or not!”

“They better not go ahead with this...or brown bins will roll.”

“Here is that budget report link again =- it is vital that people complain even though this has been handily set to coincide with Christmas – The relevant section about the brown bins is in the Neighbourhoods chapter
http://tinyurl.com/bs76fec

Send your comments and objections to Martyn Marples, corporatefinance@derby.gov.uk

As already commented below, we are already paying for brown bin waste to be composted – Vital Earth are doing this, and some monies are also returning to the City Council
Other questions you may like to ask are, which officer had this idea – was it the same Officer who is charged with making the incinerator look 'aesthetically pleasing' yet at the same time he is supposed to be rolling out MORE recycling and educating people about the merits of recycling ie saving and reusing, recycling resources. Such costs may force people to use the blackbin, from which the incinerator developer can get his contracted 13,000 tonnes monthly of 'organic' and 'calorific' waste, which we are supposed to be recycling.

What better way to put people off recycling, than making them pay double for it??

Already Councillors in Normanton have been duped into telling residents to put all their waste into the blackbin. We believe it is because of the waste incineration contract.

Plus – In order to not educate the facts about the 172,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to be produced each year by the incinerator, there are also plans to cut education and services re climate change. It never rains but………………..

We are still fund-raising for the planning appeal and need your help
Derby Friends of the Earth, Co-Op Bank, sort Code 089299, Acc no 65324585, please use the reference 3007 BURN

Derby and South Derbyshire Friends of the Earth
http://tinyurl.com/c6cxjcw”

“The Labour controlled council is beginning to sound like Hard Labour.We removed Mr Brown (the PM) now we may have our own Mr Brown Bin causing us problems. With a council budget shaped by Government cuts too deep and too fast(Paul Bayliss ) the decision to implement a living wage policy , by increasing the minimum wage to its own employees , seems more a political decision than one that fits in with the budget cuts been implemented. The living wage is a laudable idea, but its cost £2 million ? every year would suggest that most council tax payers would prefer the scheme to be implemented gradually over a number of years. How many councils will be introducing the living wage ?, is it right to give one group of people all this help with the result that all the other people have to pay for it.”

“Simple - what now goes in my brown bin will go in .....my black bin!
Council leader Paul Bayliss said the move would help save £1.7 million in 2014-15.
Cutting services and reducing budgets has nothing to do with saving money - find a decent finance/accounting team.

"The document also outlines the council's plans to reduce its housing support service,

- is that possible? -

sell unwanted buildings

- unlikely, no-one else wants them,-

spend less on repairs and maintenance

- definitely. Get a decent procurement team and team of sub-contractors and you might even get more for less!

and reduce its ICT budget.

What can be said about money spent on ICT? Total lack of understanding about what's needed and even less understanding about how it's provided along with......too many things to mention. Just because a guy can use a Mac, set up a website or link a few pages does not make him a suitable ICT advisor - or provider for that matter.

Good luck with your money saving DCC - I won't be holding my breath.”

“to coment on this you only have until the 4th January either go to the derby city council website
http://tinyurl.com/cpdqog9
the brown bin proposals are in the Neighbourhoods Directorate section
or phone them and tell them you want to comment 01332 293111. I have been told we sell the brown bin waste to Vital Earth and they make compost out of it. Could the reason they want to stop people using their brown bins be to cosy up to the incinerator developers RRS. Derby City Council in the last couple of years has done all they can to get the recycling rates in this city to fall and succeeded (one of the few things they have succeeded in). With waste falling and the cost of building the cancer machine rising daily (latest figures for building a gasifier incinerator smaller then the one proposed for Derby in South Wales £1.1 billion) they have to get waste from somewhere they know that there is an overcapacity for waste incinerators in England.”