Recycling Point Closed

Firblog

Hi all, went to use the recycling facilities @ the letterkenny Public Services Building car park today and the barriers were up, thus limiting access to the bins today - and probably all weekend.

Does anyone know if this was just an oversight or are they off limits every weekend?

colonel-yum-yum

Think it's the same every weekend, and possibly even after a certain time of day during the week. There are glass and can recycle bins behind the old Dunnes stores too, but their car park closes at a certain time as well.

homer simpson

They close them all the time.

One the subject, I think they are an eyesore. The amount of people abusing the service is shocking. When we went to get rid of our bottles after the festive season the amount of what looked like bags of household rubbish dumped all around the banks was shocking!

muffler

Firblog wrote: »

Hi all, went to use the recycling facilities @ the letterkenny Public Services Building car park today and the barriers were up, thus limiting access to the bins today - and probably all weekend.

Does anyone know if this was just an oversight or are they off limits every weekend?

That would be the "Bring bank" you are referring to as the actual recycling centre is up at Carnamuggagh - from this link

Letterkenny Recycling Centre January 2012
Thursday 10.30am – 7pm, Friday 8.30am – 5pm, Saturday 8.30am – 2pm

As an aside I see the Letterkenny, Stranorlar and Milford recycling centres are now operated privately.

Charges for all cars is now reduced from €10 to €4 at all centres.

Firblog

Aye, was the bring bank alright, dunno why the can't leave it open as alot of others in the county are; why put obstacles in the way of people who are trying to do the right thing... hate going to recycle stuff and the bins are full, drive around with clinking noises coming from the boot for days until the bins are emptied; That's prob why loads of people dump stuff beside the bins too...

ConorH.

Letterkenny Skip Hire also offer this service and have done it for quite a while now at €4 per load.

Dead handy to get rid of your recyclables and do your bit for the environment!

ootbitb

when DCC ran the site any plastic was`allowed. this firm only takes hard plastic such as milk containers...

pity they haven't advertised the fact.:mad:

Firblog

Passed the same place today and it was open... maybe council takes note of what is said on 'boards' :eek: or perhaps someone just forgot to lock the gate this weekend...

ootbitb

since the LK site isn't taking soft plastic any longer what should I do with it.

Maybe buy a box of matches?

old westie

Firblog wrote: »

Hi all, went to use the recycling facilities @ the letterkenny Public Services Building car park today and the barriers were up, thus limiting access to the bins today - and probably all weekend.

Does anyone know if this was just an oversight or are they off limits every weekend?

This is the norm, its called public service hours only. Kind of a joke

old westie

homer_simpson wrote: »

They close them all the time.

One the subject, I think they are an eyesore. The amount of people abusing the service is shocking. When we went to get rid of our bottles after the festive season the amount of what looked like bags of household rubbish dumped all around the banks was shocking!

One reason they are untidy is the fools that set them up never bothered having a paper recycle container beside the other containers.

muffler

old westie wrote: »

One reason they are untidy is the fools that set them up never bothered having a paper recycle container beside the other containers.

So it's all the council's fault and nothing to do with the people who dump their rubbish there. :rolleyes:

byte

Whilst I agree that people shouldn't dump their cardboard boxes all over the place (some would probably throw the cardboard on the ground regardless of a container), I do wonder why there isn't a paper and card container, since it makes up for a lot of people's recycling.

I guess most already have recycling bins (which annoyingly can't be used for glass)?