| Re: Envirocrime Snoops
I wouldn't believe everything you read in The Mail
A few points I would like to add:
Fortnightly collections, according to the press, were brought in to save money. Not only is that a Good Thing (as council tax payers, surely that should concern us all) but they were also introduced to enable councils to reach their recycling targets. If people can't just throw their rubbish away to become someone else's problem they might be encouraged to do something with it or, heaven forbid, create less in the first place. The amount of packaging we produce and chuck away in our consumer driven society is obscene, and as a country we recycle less of our waste than most of the rest of Europe. Experience has shown that in every council where fortnightly collections have been introduced the amount of rubbish going to landfill has gone down. |