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    angryman!!! wrote:
    Simple solution for this is give households Weely bins. That way when the refuse collections don't happen (seems to be at least once a month, I had mine out for a full fortnight last month) this wouldn't be a problem. The bin bags alway get shredded and rubbish ends up all over the place, Colchester is filthy because of it.
    Seems a childish reaction, just because a collection went wrong one week. Grow up, Mrs Cunningham.
    Putting everything into black bags will cost her, because once she runs out she will have to buy new ones, while she can have extra transparent bags for free.
    And the last thing we want in Colchester is big ugly unhygienic wheelie bins. The present system works fine most of the time. These would be expensive for the council to buy, and they would require new vehicles to load them into. CBC can't afford all that cost."
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I won’t separate my plastics, says defiant Colchester woman

Fay Cunningham Fay Cunningham

A WOMAN says she’ll stop separating her rubbish for recycling because binmen left her plastic items uncollected for five days.

Fay Cunningham and her neighbours in Capstan Place, Colchester, put out their black bags, as usual, along with clear sacks of plastic items, ahead of the regular collection on Wednesday last week.

The black bags were picked up, but the recycling was left out on the pavement.

Mrs Cunningham contacted Colchester Council and was told it would be collected on Thursday or Friday.

She sent a note to her neighbours telling them to put their recycling out again, but it was five days later when it was finally taken away.

She said: “All my rubbish will now go in a black bag every week. There’s no point in recycling if there’s not going to be a collection."

Mrs Cunningham said binmen visited three times last Wednesday – once to collect the black bags once, to get garden refuse and once to hand out rolls of bags for next year – but ignored the clear sacks each time.

The council said it was investigating the problem.

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