http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/11668325.Waste_partnership_is_standing_firm_on_rubbish_bags_despite_vermin_fears/ Waste partnership is standing firm on rubbish bags despite vermin fears East Street, Weymouth I drove past this stack of rubbish yesterday 15th December 2014,(and it was not the only one which I passed while in Weymouth). It seems that the waste has been put into the "wrong sacks". The thought occurred to me that rather than buy "black plastic" sacks to cram the rubbish into, why do the people putting the bags out, not put it into "blue plastic" sacks? That is of course, provided that the DWP have actually delivered a supply of blue plastic sacks to be used for the purpose. However, so far the performance of DWP in the catalouge of errors, screw ups and general poor management and administration of the "new system" is less than adequate. Moreover, they seem to be demanding more money from the Council to cover ...
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The packaging on medications increases the cost to the NHS, and generates even more profits for the pharmaceutical industry. I have just spent the last hour, filling my pill dispensing wallet. This is a task which I carry out every two weeks, usually on alternate Sunday mornings. The reason for using a pill dispenser is that I have a significant number of various pills, which are usually taken in different combinations each day. Consequently, the possibility of taking the wrong dosage or the wrong pills, is avoided. It never ceases to amaze me, that at the end of this exercise, I always have at least half a carrier bag full of discarded pill boxes, instruction leaflets and numerous empty sheets of seven empty slots of tinfoil or thin plastic or a combination of both, where the pill for that particular medication was housed. In many cases the tin foil or plastic, requires a great amount of finger and thumb pressure to eject the incumbent pill. This ...
After 4 weeks, this is more than "teething problems". Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP). providing a "new improved service".?
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/11597808.Residents_revolt_over_rubbish_service/ Residents revolt over rubbish service It is not only Portland that has a problem with the new waste disposal scheme operated by the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP). I posted this in the letters section of Dorset Echo, this morning. The following is the transcript of an "online chat" which I had with DWP last week. The food waste was eventually collected and the bin was left lying on its side with lid open, in the middle of a public drive way. There will probably be another "online chat" this week as the food waste bin was again not emptied. A new "Report a missed bin collection" reference number has been issued and a complaint has been sent to DWP. They will respond "within 10 days". If DWP or anyone else thinks that we should have rotting food waste lying around the house, or stored in our garage until they are prepared to coll...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/expiry-date-set-for-best-before-labels-9400151.html Expiry date set for ‘best before’ labels “Best before” labels on food could be scrapped A good idea and not before time. The biggest problem however, is the inordinate amount of packaging on every product resulting in waste, expense and a recycling problem. Layer after layer of superfluous plastic, cellophane,tin foil and tissue, all adding to the cost of the product and polluting our waste bins. Apart from food packaging, it seems fashionable amongst manufactures to wrap everything from Wilkinson Sword (and others) safety razors to soap and hand cream, in packaging which frequently requires the use of scissors or "Stanley knife" to gain access. The wrapping on medication is also excessive,and can be dangerous, particularly ...
Environment Agency admits that the Selection of the Sellafield Nuclear waste dump site was a "mistake".
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/20/choice-cumbria-nuclear-dump-mistake-environment-agency One million cubic meters of waste near Sellafield are housed at a site that was a mistake Sellafield nuclear facility I have never been a supporter of the use of nuclear as an option for producing energy. Amongst the reasons for my opposition to nuclear generated power, is a very simple question to which the pro nuclear lobby have never been able to provide an acceptable answer. The question is and will always be, "What do you do with the waste?" The responses trotted out over the years, range between the bizarre and ludicrous (put it in a rocket and fire it into the sun or fill containers with it and dump it in the oceans, amongst the more perverse examples) to the now accepted international practices of land fill and dumping within the existing environment. The usual criticisms of these suggestions I have documented elsewhere over the year...