COULD the council please refrain from its patronising attitude about refuse collections and recycling?
According to a letter in the Press (August 22), council employees will call on householders to help them put correct refuse in the right bins if it is found that "contaminated waste" is discovered in the wrong bins. For which we can presumably read that council employees will be threatening householders and, let's be honest here, we are hardly talking about nuclear waste.
No one is against recycling, but the council refuse department is paid from the council tax to dispose of and recycle waste products that can be recycled.
If we are expected to do the work for them will we be seeing a reduction in the council tax bills next year? I think not.
"Green waste" does not in any way, shape or form take up 30 per cent of the existing grey bins. Perhaps 30 per cent over the space of three or four weeks in the season, and then only from keen gardeners.
So the argument about fortnightly collections (one week household, one week green) holds little water.
And what about the winter months when there is no green waste to be collected? Will the refuse wagon be travelling the streets collecting nothing?
Again I think not. The reality is this is just a cost-cutting measure.
S Smith,
Dijon Avenue,
York.
Updated: 11:05 Thursday, August 25, 2005
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