Memorandum by the Ridgeway Court Residents
Association (RC 52)
Ridgeway Court is a development of 42 flats.
Waste disposal is via large communal bins, one to each block of
six flats. These are unlidded to allow an access chute for first
and second floor flats. So, although all waste is wrapped, it
can still smell, especially in hot weather.
Individual householders can control the contents
of their individual bins; larger bins accessed by six households
cannot and we really do need weekly collections as a result. The
local council has provided us with separate recycling bins for
paper/card and tins and these are well used; the two paper/card
bins are both full at the end of a week.
All the discussions on this subject that I have
read or heard seem to concentrate on houses but flats have their
particular difficulties.
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