'Why recycling collections in this York street was like a panto'
PANTOMIME came early this year on December 2 when it was recycling collection day in Eldon Street.
Waste operatives proceeded down the footpath with large wheelie bins emptying recycle boxes into them before hooking the wheelie bins on to the back of the lorry for tipping into the vehicle.
At one house the occupants had failed to properly separate material so there was a mixture of recycle waste in some of the boxes. The bins were conveniently placed at waste height on top of a low wall for ease of lifting but the waste operatives ignored them.
They went to the next house where recycle materials had been meticulously separated but placed at ground level where it was necessary to bend down to lift them. These boxes were all emptied into one wheelie bin before tipping the whole lot into the back of the lorry!
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What is the point of separating waste if it is all being dumped together at point of collection? And why bypass boxes with mixed waste when it makes no difference to where the stuff is going?
It was a slapstick scene worthy of Widow Twanky and Buttons but unfortunate householders stuck with uncollected waste probably aren’t laughing.
Nor are neighbours who have to look at these forecourts stacked with rubbish for another two weeks at least.
The only happy characters are the local rats and urban foxes.
Matthew Laverack,
Lord Mayors Walk,
York
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