Our communal waste bins
18/02/10 16:43 Filed in: Services
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From Toby Good:
The village has quite a number of bins in the recycling compound that are shared by people in the village who choose not to have their own bin.
If you put your rubbish and/or recycling in these bins, please do the right thing and help to take them out to the roadside on a Sunday evening and bring them back on a Monday. (The bins need only go out when they are completely full).
On Sunday just passed, myself and two other villagers, who do not use these bins, put out a total of 20 bins consisting of both general rubbish and recycling and all were chockers! (One wonders where the next week’s rubbish was going to be placed...!) They were taken to the far side of the road (opposite the Village entrance).
Using communal bins is a great idea. However, while we love living and working together in this Village, the Village is an intentional community (we have all chosen to live here), and will only continue to flourish if everyone chips in and does their bit - many hands make light work etc!
Unfortunately, if we assume that someone else will do it, the job, almost always, never gets
done!
Thanks for your help, Toby
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From Bridget O’Donnell:
It’s time to set up a Communal Bin Roster.
Please contact me if you can help and are willing to participate on a volunteer roster, and I will type one up and post it on feed/email it to you.
We need to put out the full rubbish and recycling bins from the recycling area onto the street on a Sunday night and retrieve them on a Monday.
My guesstimate is that we would need 3-4 people each week to make it a quick task. We could set a time each week to meet, and do it together, or just agree to do a certain number of bins each on a certain week.
Please come forward if you are using these communal bins and take part in a communal effort to deal with them. My ears are open to any alternative ideas, I welcome your input.
I just want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the generous actions of Trevor Kingston who dealt with these bins silently, and punctually, for many years, providing a great service for the village.
Bridget - 8557 6123 or 0418 892 463 or preferably email
The village has quite a number of bins in the recycling compound that are shared by people in the village who choose not to have their own bin.
If you put your rubbish and/or recycling in these bins, please do the right thing and help to take them out to the roadside on a Sunday evening and bring them back on a Monday. (The bins need only go out when they are completely full).
On Sunday just passed, myself and two other villagers, who do not use these bins, put out a total of 20 bins consisting of both general rubbish and recycling and all were chockers! (One wonders where the next week’s rubbish was going to be placed...!) They were taken to the far side of the road (opposite the Village entrance).
Using communal bins is a great idea. However, while we love living and working together in this Village, the Village is an intentional community (we have all chosen to live here), and will only continue to flourish if everyone chips in and does their bit - many hands make light work etc!
Unfortunately, if we assume that someone else will do it, the job, almost always, never gets
done!
Thanks for your help, Toby
***************************
From Bridget O’Donnell:
It’s time to set up a Communal Bin Roster.
Please contact me if you can help and are willing to participate on a volunteer roster, and I will type one up and post it on feed/email it to you.
We need to put out the full rubbish and recycling bins from the recycling area onto the street on a Sunday night and retrieve them on a Monday.
My guesstimate is that we would need 3-4 people each week to make it a quick task. We could set a time each week to meet, and do it together, or just agree to do a certain number of bins each on a certain week.
Please come forward if you are using these communal bins and take part in a communal effort to deal with them. My ears are open to any alternative ideas, I welcome your input.
I just want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the generous actions of Trevor Kingston who dealt with these bins silently, and punctually, for many years, providing a great service for the village.
Bridget - 8557 6123 or 0418 892 463 or preferably email