Not from Hull? You can't recycle here ...
PEOPLE living outside Hull are to be banned from dumping their rubbish at city waste tips in an attempt to save £120,000.
Hull City Council has introduced a new permit scheme giving Hull residents exclusive use of the city's three recycling centres.
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LOCALS ONLY: Hull City Council is introducing a new permit scheme at it's three recycling centres that allows only Hull residents to use the facilities. Picture: Jim Mitchell
The move is expected to save city taxpayers about £120,000 after the council discovered 4,000 tonnes of waste dumped in Hull comes from people living outside the city boundaries.
According to a survey, 29 per cent of people using the site at Wiltshire Road, 11 per cent at Burma Drive and 8.5 per cent at Sutton Fields live outside the area.
Doug Sharp, Hull City Council's assistant head of service for open spaces and waste, said: "It's not unusual for councils to restrict access to household waste sites to their own residents.
"This change in policy has been an integral part of the council's wider review of service provision."
Permits are free to Hull residents and are being distributed to households.
During the first few weeks of the scheme, additional staff will be on hand at the three recycling sites to explain the new arrangements.
Initially, no one will be refused access. Any Hull residents arriving without the pass or proof of address will be reminded to bring them next time.
Hull is among the country's top recycling councils, regularly achieving 50 per cent for household waste.
The city still offers weekly kerbside collections.
The three household waste sites are open seven days a week from 10am to 6pm, with the majority of residents living within three miles of them.
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by axaaxa
Friday, July 08 2011, 5:06PM
“I live in an East Riding village and occasionally us the Burma Road recycling depot and then travel into Hull city centre to shop.
For the future, I will have to use the Beverley recycling depot. I will then travel into Beverley to shop !
Well done Hull city council; more lost business !!!
Terry Frost”
by Moxie64
Friday, July 08 2011, 2:40PM
“Ha ha when the rest of the world is burnt to a crisp because of global warming the cosy enclave of Hull will be saved because its residents were given the right to exclusive local recycling. All those outsiders, Wezzies, Yellerbellies and Southerners will cook in their own juices because they can't recycle in Hull but we'll all be saved! Saved!”
by icklenick73
Wednesday, July 06 2011, 10:36PM
“I wish I could truthfully comment on this but it is a conflict of interest!”
by Mark_Hull_65
Tuesday, July 05 2011, 12:23AM
“Would it not have been much easier to carry on as things were? I'm sure the amount of East Riding rubbish in Hull tips was largely offset by the amount of Hull rubbish in ERYC tips at least to the point of not making any real difference.”
by CharleyBraque
Tuesday, July 05 2011, 12:18AM
“Is this the same Council that wants to form a cross river LEP? Does Hull want people from the surrounding villages to come into town and shop? Do not many of those working and creating wealth in that godforsaken hole actually live outside the city? Hull does not exist in some kind of splendid isolation. This is crass stupidity and an insult to many thousands of Hull's neighbours. Well it cuts both ways. Since Hull buries its dead outside the city in Cottingham perhaps ERYC should ban that in retaliation.”
by paulthe
Monday, July 04 2011, 11:04PM
“I remember the residents of our close neighbours to the west of the city but outside the boundary of Hull not wanting a rubbish tip near their houses. Hahaha. Laughing all the way to the tip, especially as EYCC are proposing to charge for the pleasure of using their facilities.”
by scooter234
Monday, July 04 2011, 10:27PM
“Fantastic idea, we don't want your tory rubbish in our city, if those who live close to the city want to use its Hull City Council Tax Payed facilities, then they should demand the boundaries change.”
by Bjorkliden
Monday, July 04 2011, 8:41PM
“When Hull wants to get recycle its dead residents it's quite ok to dump them in Cottingham.”
by RidingAround
Monday, July 04 2011, 7:10PM
“3dogs.
Its Soooo funny, the people of Hull have to carry passes around with them to dump their rubbish Ha Ha Ha H aHa! By the time your xenaphobic Old Labour Leadership have finished, you will all have to carry identitiy cards around with thm ... Ha Ha HA HA HA! What a load of old rubbish!!”
by threedogz
Monday, July 04 2011, 6:33PM
“qualitychap yes they can and yes they do.They can also come and use our free museums our free festivals and events and our Hull taxpayers subsidised theatres.To be realistic every tonne collected at the recycling centres has a cost. I don't think the four star East Riding council would be happy for Hull residents to use your facilities for free.The solution is to open more recycling centres nearer their residents but then you encounter the NIMBY BRIGADE !!!RidingAround you only find it petty because your not paying for it.EastUllExile Hull and the East Riding were working on a joint project called an incinerator but the East Riding Nimby's didn't like it”