[honeybee]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbell

Just to let you know, I heard from a gentleman at our local District Council today with his explanation of the continuing fortnightly collections for garden waste throughout the winter. Apparently although there are a few weeks when tonnage is less, they can still collect a considerable amount of garden waste during the winter, but try to use less manpower to achieve this. Also, apparently it is difficult getting everyone to remember the current methods and days of collection without confusing them even more, by changing the collections at this time.

I gathered that his gentleman is very interested in the environment and has personal views on how change might be achieved - one possible is to return packaging to the supermarkets etc. for them to dispose of. He did recommend the book Heat by George Monbiot - it apparently gives a much larger picture of how savings in energy and resources might be made. The use of lorries to transport goods in one direction, whilst returning to a depot empty was another point mentioned by my caller, as being particularly wasteful.

Incidentally, did you know that the big rubbish collection vehicles do 4 miles to the gallon?

Tinkerbell

Yes, it's quite tempting to take all the excess supermarket packaging and dump it in the aisles, prob is it would probably just end up in landfill. If we all did it they might get the message though!