Town council has waste skip problem

NAAS, 1 May 2002: by Brian Byrne. A problem with disposal at the county landfill has upset Naas Town Council's tradition of providing skips to estates in the town to help residents and residents associations get rid of waste which had built up during the year, as well as material abandoned in estates such as the motorbike at Kingsfurze (above).

The skips had been provided free once a year to estates when requested and were also useful in allowing residents dispose of piles of cuttings and material that was generated in their own maintenance works on the estate.

But when a representative of Kingsfurze recently approached the council to have a skip provided to coincide with the National Spring Clean, he was told the council has ceased the provision of such skips because ‘they were too costly’.

“I was very disappointed,” the representative told KNN. “The latest problem is a dumped motorbike on the green, so I have asked the council to see if the Litter Warden Service can contact the owner through its serial numbers (ED NOTE: we have pictured the plate here for the convenience of the Litter Warden Service). But I’ve heard nothing since.”

KNN has learned that the council is reviewing its skips scheme, to try and find a way to ensure that material placed in the skips is not mixed. This follows the rejection at Silliot Hill of a Naas Town Council skip because it had mixed contents.

The only thing that the council can do is make sure that any skip given to an estate is strictly supervised so that fridges and similar items (including the oily motorbike above) are not mixed in with cuttings or building waste materials. But this would pose both an administrative headache and extra cost. The council is looking into the situation.

In the meantime, it seems that Naas estates will have to look after their own waste disposal.

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