This item on the BBC website struck a nerve:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8688547.stmAm I the only one totally fed up with acting as a local amenity tip?
At the moment we have:
A wheelie bin for general waste
A bin for cans and plastic bottles
A bin for bottles and glass
A bin for paper (but not cardboard which I have to take down to the local tip)
A container for food waste
A pail for the kitchen to collect food waste
A composter in our very small garden (which attracts rats)
Collections are fortnightly alternating general waste with recycling.
Most of these containers clutter up my small drive and are a visual atrocity. The terraced houses on my estate have no drives and no rear access so all this lot is piled up next to the front door which constitutes a double visual atrocity.
Enough is enough!
I have no objections to recycling which is obviously a ‘good thing’ even if it does end up getting shipped to China for small children to sort through.
What I object to is the mentality of the local bureaucrats (and I used to work in Local Government) who consider that it is perfectly acceptable to ruin the appearance of the built environment in order to achieve their artificial recycling targets.
When I visited France a couple of years back the place we stayed at was provided with colour coded sacks for different items. You put your waste in the appropriate sack and took it down to the street corner where there were matching bins. These bins were emptied DAILY!
Not rocket science is it?
Colin