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November 26, 2018 at 5:04 pm in reply to: Football Museum could take preference over bin collections. #159628
MattParticipantFurthering the logical madness of the proposed 3-weekly bin collections – the council will rapidly realise that this will be a disaster. It’s actually a harsh austerity measure disguised as ‘doing good for the environment’.
The reality is that when you ask a household to fill a black bin up in 3 weeks – you are asking them to reduce general waste by 50% or find another method to dispose of that 50% of rubbish.
On black bin day most people’s bins around here are comically overflowing with black bin-bags – there are hardly any that have the lid down properly.
Failing rubbish reduction – we are capitalist consumers, we consume, we are told to do this and therefore produce a lot of waste – there are a number of ways to get rid of your excess rubbish:
1) Fly tip – bad and illegal
2) Buy a garden incinerator and burn it – bad for the environment and anti-social – domestic waste would kick up a stink
3) Stick it in neighbour’s bins (or other public bins) – anti-social and probably illegal
4) Take it to the public recycling centres – unmixed general waste they have a field day about when you try and dispose of it as they try and maintain recycling targets – I’ve seen frowny refuse workers scrutinise bags of rubbish to see what should have been sorted. If everyone went to dump excess general waste they’d have a nervous breakdown.
5) Just let all the bags build up in the garden until environmental health are forced to come and sort it out with the fall out of rats and other pests stinking up the neighbourhood. Believe me some will take this option.
6) Move to somewhere in England like Oswestry or Chester and actually get your bins emptied once every 2 weeks.
As a responsible and environmentally friendly local government – are the council planning on reducing their own waste footprint by the proposed equivalent amount that they plan to put onto residents?
November 26, 2018 at 4:33 pm in reply to: Football Museum could take preference over bin collections. #159627
MattParticipantThe candlestick maker will be suing as he was not represented as part of the 3 Men in a Tub business guild!
As much as it sounds like a good idea to resurrect archaic fashions such as housewives spending all day boiling nappies and taking all afternoon going to individual shops – time has moved on.
As much as you can’t force people to start travelling around on horseback I seriously doubt they’d adopt any of the other above practices either.
The burden of packaging waste reduction should be pushed further onto food producers, goods manufacturers and supermarkets, fast food outlets, shops and online retailers.
People buy things out of need and from what’s available – so they will buy a kettle for example – they didn’t also ask for a complex array of cardboard, polystyrene and various pieces of plastic placeholders, including the plug being covered with a plastic thing and a paper thing – as well as reams of glossy literature that’s just not needed (it’s a bloody kettle – you put water in it and press the boil button). Basically the packaging is dumped on the consumer who is then expected to dispose of it in an ever-increasingly hostile domestic waste regime – who are also heavily criticised for producing excess waste.
Perhaps if companies could offer a green option to get items in a plain compostable cardboard box (or the minimum viable packaging available) – then people would have the option to do the right thing and reduce their household waste footprint.
November 22, 2018 at 2:05 pm in reply to: Football Museum could take preference over bin collections. #159428
MattParticipantLlayby Lilly – Care to explain how having a difference of opinion makes someone a bore? You know arguments fall down when you have to resort to Ad Hominem.
I like Bryn would prefer to see the money put into something like the redevelopment of the Kop where I watched Wrexham play as a child – something I’d wish my kids could do too when they are a bit older. How sad and boring am I.
November 22, 2018 at 11:17 am in reply to: Football Museum could take preference over bin collections. #159413
MattParticipantI personally love museums, been to hundreds – could bore you to death with all the ones I’ve been to. But in terms of Wrexham, I think investing in actual football is a better fit than investing in the idea that once upon a time some football happened.
There’s just no wow factor there or appeal for young people – can you imagine the morning before match day in Wrexham a group of youths going – ‘Come on lads (lasses) – let’s head off to the football museum’. It’s just not going to happen. If it’s not happening on a smart phone or a games console then there’s no interest in taking things in.
Museums for the most part are something I’ve slowed down going to over the last 5-10 years as I can learn far more about any given topic in 15 minutes online. I like seeing the genuine article of something, but it has to be really interesting for me to actually physically want to see it. Whereas, facts are accessible from everywhere.
November 22, 2018 at 9:28 am in reply to: Football Museum could take preference over bin collections. #159405
MattParticipantThe whole thing is completely delusional as usual. Obviously bins come first – or there will be rubbish overflowing onto the streets.
However, from a project perspective – you can see the usual suspects have got their rose tinted White Elephant Goggles on as usual – why don’t we just let these councillors go in exchange for allowing them to run an annual circus in town once a year instead – because that’s how they view and treat Wrexham.
In terms of any development into football in town – those proposing it have completely forgot one thing. Football is meant to be enjoyed out on a pitch and actually watched and played not sat behind glass in a stuffy museum. That’s how kids benefit from it – playing it and watching their local teams. That’s not to say historic artifacts aren’t important but it is very disappointing that there’s no plan to develop the Racecourse in any way.
It is mentioned in the article that lots of people come into town on match day – it is a false equivalence to believe lots of numbers will come into town to go into the museum – no matter how many millions of pounds worth of bells and whistles they put into it. Ty Pawb sized alarm bells should be ringing when people are over enthusiastic about such a site. People like theme parks but the majority wouldn’t go to a theme park museum.
The one thing people do want and should be considered is getting some international games played at the Racecourse. That’s why it should be developed.
MattParticipantI get what you are saying Monitor. Something in Wrexham perhaps might be considered heritage until Bloor Homes & their Tory donor consider it to be more suited as a new residential profit generating location.
At this point I wouldn’t put it past them.
MattParticipantThere has been a long term trend in Wrexham of plans to turn absolutely anything of remote uniqueness and of cultural interest in Wrexham into residential. Perhaps if they even had a remote interest in refurbishing and preserving the town’s character – it would be a nice place to go to.
Granny Midges – Let’s build flats – Collectables and Antiques a huge draw in other towns
Y Werddon Brewery – Let’s build flats – Could have housed microbreweries – look how many craft ales are being made everywhere
Hippodrome – Let’s build flats – The interior of that place was brilliant – restoration could have meant an alternative type cinema to the usual multiplex blandness.
Scott’s and Peppers – Let’s build flats – whilst these clubs were of a different era and many people have hilarious bad stories to tell of their drunken visits there – the actual spaces in these places could have been transformed into newer night club locations or other entertainment venues. In other towns/cities the majority of a town’s heritage night venues get preserved.
It just seems like the planning brain-deads in the council are that desperate for redevelopment they just push for housing plans to come in as those are the only ones they seem to support. Where is the actual inward investment support for the day time and night time economy in the town centre it just doesn’t exist.
MattParticipantThe Continental Street Market took advantage of the Mayors services when he held up his sausage in Hope Street.
November 12, 2018 at 2:27 pm in reply to: Awful bad language by a POLICE OFFICER at Wrexham game. #158840
MattParticipantSomeone was running up late night posts after a few turbo shandies.
MattParticipantI think that if a charge was levied for the mayor to make an appearance exactly 0 events would bother to pay for it.
The prestige of a mayor is a very dated idea – people would just get other photo/PR moment hungry public officials to turn up instead – free of charge. Councillors, MPs, AMs etc…
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