Civic Amenity Site/Recycling Centres

mccririck

I recently submitted several Recycling Centres around Edinburgh. They are all called recycling centres, but you guys changed them to Civic Amenity Sites. I believe with the emphysis these days on recycling these places are all now called recycling centres. What you guys call recycling centres are actually recycling points - ie a few bins for various different things in your Tesco car park is a recycling point, not a recycling centre.

Will you be changing the naming of these?

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject:

Why bother? Most people know where their local recycling centre/point is. and I for one, am not going further than I have to and use my petrol and generate all that nastr CO2, to do my bit for a very dubious green brigade

253 · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:49 pm Post subject:

I don't know, have mixed views on this.
I have submitted several of my own, but they were full on recycling centers for oil, tyres, plastics etc.
Many of the supermarkets have limited stuff for paper, cans etc, but some of them here in London have stopped paper because it is to bulky.

If you are on hols, in a campervan, caravan etc then uou may well want to drop stuff off there, including cooking oil etc.

I know you can ask, but you can also ask where the McDonalds is (why anyone would beats me), or the nearest petrol station etc.

Like I say, open minded.
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:57 pm Post subject:

First the off-topic bit:

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject:

A Civic Amenity Site is a Council run process that handles Recycled and Non-recycled Waste and is staffed. It also covers a much larger range of Recycling, such as Green Waste, Batteries, Electrical Appliances, etc.

A Recycling Centre will, generally, only accept a limited type of Waste and is not usually Council run. Usually Glass, Textiles and Paper is handled.
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mccririck · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:04 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:04 pm Post subject:

Ah, so a "Civic Amenity Site" is what I would call a "Household Waste Site" or "Household Waste Recycling Centre" as Bradford MDC now seem to call them

So that explains why I could never find any household waste sites in POI databases as southerners call them by a different name!

MaFt

253 · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:10 pm Post subject:

mccririck · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject:

Daggers · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:07 pm Post subject:

Do you mean the council tip?
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M8TJT · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:21 pm Post subject:

253 · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:45 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:06 am Post subject:

From Wickipedia:

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:46 am Post subject:

I was not disputing the name that council speak gobbledygook gives them, but the inaccurate misuse of the word 'amenity' to dress up something that's a tip or dump into something where people would want to go to improve their 'quality of being pleasant or attractive; agreeableness' and gives absolutely no clues as to its actual purpose of being a public recycling facility.

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:47 am Post subject:

I think, in light of the direction of this thread, that we should change the name to Household Waste Recycling Centre. Any other Idea

Should we change Recycling Centre to something like Bottle Bank, or Local Recycling Point?

If we can come to some agreement, then I don't see a problem.
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