Good gardening conditions to blame for sack shortage (From Gazette)
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Good gardening conditions to blame for sack shortage
4:34pm Friday 19th October 2012 in News By James Cox
GARDEN waste is stacking up at Colchester homes after high demand left recycling bag stocks dry.
Residents have gone more than two months without the white sacks, which are usually dispensed by Colchester Council.
Colchester Council said that ideal gardening conditions caused a greater than anticipated need for the hessian bags.
The authority said that they are chasing an order of sacks and considering changing manufacturers.
Full story in Monday's Gazette.
Comments(17)
FearNaught
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8:23pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Bert_Stimpson
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11:06pm Fri 19 Oct 12
PROOFREADER
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11:11pm Fri 19 Oct 12
PROOFREADER
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11:12pm Fri 19 Oct 12
PROOFREADER
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11:13pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Boris
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12:02am Sat 20 Oct 12
Say It As It Is OK?
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7:55am Sat 20 Oct 12
There is always an excuse and nothing to do with the people responsible who are not doing their job properly by ensuring replacements are always available!
Its a small thing but unfortunately par for the course for how the majority of the public sector react to "customer service" which has not, or ever likely to be high on their priority list.
totallyfootball
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10:39am Sat 20 Oct 12
bev52
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10:48am Sat 20 Oct 12
Its cost me a forune to keep buying bags, for the collectors not to just pop them back in my front garden but instead to throw them along the path or even into the road. If I am at work I cannot get out there to get them straight in,
mummy250271
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7:44pm Sat 20 Oct 12
Indian Shores wrote:Well said we use compost heaps, always have and always will
Why do we waste rate payers money collecting lazy gardeners waste? whatever happened to the compost heap?
Reginald47
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10:28pm Sat 20 Oct 12
jammin
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1:36pm Mon 22 Oct 12
jim_bo
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4:55pm Mon 22 Oct 12
Say It As It Is OK? wrote:Constant mishaps by this dept and yet they are still in their jobs.
Good gardening conditions to blame for sack shortage, The headline says?
There is always an excuse and nothing to do with the people responsible who are not doing their job properly by ensuring replacements are always available!
Its a small thing but unfortunately par for the course for how the majority of the public sector react to "customer service" which has not, or ever likely to be high on their priority list.
A few kicks up the bracket at a senior level might make the council more efficient.
Cleggeron
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3:31pm Tue 23 Oct 12
rhetoric
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6:39pm Wed 24 Oct 12
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Works well, no problems with sacks, no wasted materials. The waste is composted and sold to the public, real recycling and a small contribution to Council funds.
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I do have a compost heap, but many of us these days just have room for one or, in my case, two. That doesn't go anywhere near containing all my garden waste, however fast it breaks down, because I have trees and shrubs which seem to grow incredibly fast even when everything else doesn't. I am therefore very happy to send the remainder to the Council Compost Heap.
Smouldering Ewok
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3:10pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Say It As It Is OK? wrote:Spot on!
Good gardening conditions to blame for sack shortage, The headline says?
There is always an excuse and nothing to do with the people responsible who are not doing their job properly by ensuring replacements are always available!
Its a small thing but unfortunately par for the course for how the majority of the public sector react to "customer service" which has not, or ever likely to be high on their priority list.
It is indeed, a poor excuse.
Indian Shores says...
8:17pm Fri 19 Oct 12