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Food Waste TUNNELS BEACHES, ILFRACOMBE
The food caddy collection is taken to depot to be bulked up and then goes to
the anaerobic digester at Piddlehinton. This is a top end facility which feeds
energy back into the grid from the process and well as using the spare heat Ilfracombe: The healthiest of all watering places, 1867
generated to supplement the nearby grain store. The end product is a sludge that
can go back on agricultural land.
Ilfracombe and its baths are
ideal for invalids, waifs and
Batteries strays from the heat of India,
We will recycle all kinds of domestic battery, but they must be kept separate!! worn out clergymen...and to
Every week somewhere in the country there is a fire either in the lorries or at a people, whether young or old,
plant because batteries have been put in with the waste. In particular, lithium whose ailments arise mainly
batteries are lethal as they still have so much energy left in them. from want of stamina and
general lack of tone’

Collection of Garden Waste Had I made my journey in
1819 when the first of the
There are a small number areas of Dorset where it is economically and
environmentally beneficial to collect garden waste with the rubbish. This is tunnels was carved out, I
predominantly restricted access areas, where we would have to send a smaller could well have arrived by
dedicated garden waste vehicle excessive distances to empty a customer’s horse drawn carriage, and my
garden waste bin. In these instances, all of the garden waste collected with journey over rock strewn
rubbish is taken to a treatment facility where the garden waste is composted as tracks would have involved
part of the treatment process. Therefore, no garden waste ends up in landfill as over a full day’s travel.
was suggested in recent social media posts Ilfracombe was then just a small fishing village with only five recorded visitors.
Later, the coming of the railway enabled affluent tourists of the 1820s and 1830s
The garden waste material that is collected with the general waste will be sent to to visit it for the benefit of their health. Perhaps I could have partaken of
a treatment facility. Any organic material is separated and composted as part of instruction from Professor H Parker whose method of teaching swimming soon
this treatment process.
overcame all timidity for the
However, each year we review and optimise all garden waste collection rounds. moderate charge of two shillings a
This is predominantly completed to create capacity for new customer growth, but lesson. His photograph, clad in a
we also review all garden waste bins that are collected with the rubbish and hand-knitted bathing costume, top
assess whether we can effectively and efficiently collect these bins with the hat and a strangely porcelain nose-
dedicated garden waste vehicles. During our last optimisation exercise (winter cover was not reassuring!
2020) we were able to move a further 80 garden waste bins from rubbish rounds
onto dedicated garden waste collection rounds. As it was, I turned the car into the car
park opposite the Bath House, and
strolled across to the tunnels.

Surgery “The tide is covering the pool at the
We are not (yet) holding face to face meetings for the moment. However, we moment but you can still swim in the
would be more than delighted to talk to you on the telephone or via Zoom. sea” Janet, the lady in the reception
Please ring or email us with some details so that we can prepare ourselves. Peter’s kiosk gently explained when we
email address is peterwharf@hotmail.com telephone 07986 600799 and Laura’s is arrived mid-afternoon. The tidal pool
cllrlaura.miller@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk telephone 07814 569563. is visible for six hours in every twelve,
three hours before low tide and three
Peter Wharf & Laura Miller, Dorset Councillors for West Purbeck hours after it.

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