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reetings and good wishes to all who kindly read this, my first contribution to the widely-distributed Oracle. I am about to talk rubbish (yes, yes – I know there are some who say I’ve talked little else in my lifetime of scribbling for various publications, and they are entitled to their view, of course).

Doolittle’s dad in “My Fair Lady,” and humped sometimes considerable distances along alleyways to be tipped and emptied into roadside vehicles, or dustcarts, as many of us knew them.

I recall, too, when heavy items and garden refuse had to be taken by us ratepayers of Southend to The Tip at Great Wakering. Householders from our borough and neighbouring districts dumped their waste there, until it grew in massive mounds and was earthed over and grassed over and the site was closed.

The rubbish that is my topic here, though, is that which is regularly and quite astonishingly collected in tonnes and tonnes from our homes.

I would have used the word “tons,” being of advanced years, but long since bowed to Euro The folk who live in that area now must surely be masters. a tad miffed that we could dump on their But to the point – which is to compliment doorstep, as it were, but they, now, can’t bring Southend Council for employing Cory, which also their unwanted trash to Southend. Rochford earns my thanks, for the continuing, efficient, Council taxpayers have to travel to Rayleigh to demanding service ensuring that our household dispose of unwanted stuff that can’t be and garden rubbish is regularly and reliably accommodated in the various wheelie bins removed from our homes and premises and collected from their homes. disposed of.

Here in Southend, of course, young men hurry I’m of the generation who recall when we had along our streets on the scheduled day for heavy dustbins in our backyards or gardens, for collection of what we no longer want, humping all the ghastly household waste. These were sacks, chasing the great container and crusher picked up by strong dustmen, blokes like Eliza lorries and tossing in the sacks and sacks and sacks and …

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Others arrive on a scheduled day each week in each neighbourhood to remove and empty the green wheelie bins of garden waste. Our home doesn’t have such a container. I prefer, instead, to take my grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, weeds to the Stock Road dumping site, where those guarding the gate, most of ‘em with friendly smiles, check IDs to ensure we are council taxpayers in the borough and thus entitled to this service.

Some of us regulars have come to know one another by sight. We meet and exchange pleasantries as we climb the steps to the platform from which we tip our unwanted trash into the huge container. No, hardly romantic, of course, but one still smiles when someone or other calls out “What’re you doing in a dump like this?”

Seriously, though – for keeping our streets and homes and gardens as free as possible of the rotted and the rubbish is indeed very, very serious – this is a thank you to the council and to the contractors for this service, surely among the most vital of all for which we pay our local taxes.

Sadly – and most annoyingly – there remain some in our neighbourhoods who care not a jot for the environment and for their neighbours and for our communities. They carelessly, needlessly and infuriatingly toss paper, empty cartons and containers, bottles and much more in public places.

Evidence of such blots on our surroundings can be seen, far too often, on the centre verges as one drives along the A127: cans, plastic bottles, paper wrappings and more chucked from cars by uncaring, inconsiderate, slobbish drivers.

Similarly, sometimes on the greenery alongside Artillery Way, in the east of Southend, there is evidence of drivers’ selfishness and lack of caring.

Such pests, if seen and identified, should be charged with offending against society and, if found guilty, sentenced to hours of community service in cleaning up after others who, too, have still to learn how to be reasonable residents, good neighbours.

That’s it for this time. Talked a lot of rubbish, eh?

I can only hope I just may have helped to make any who don’t really care about our lovely communities think again.

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