The council provides households with free black bins for rubbish and brown bins for garden waste. They also supply green bags for recycling materials free of charge and will replace any that are lost or no longer usable again free of charge. Blue bins are also available for recycling material but these have to be purchased from the council at a cost of some £25 or £26 each. The council are also targeted with achieving a set amount of recycling so I believe that if they want us to recycle they should provide the means for us to do so and not charge us for the privilege. Look at it this way - the council has to keep paying for replacement green bags, they also have to pay for street cleaners. On windy days like today the green bags blow all over the place and deposit litter and rubbish like these plastic bottles seen today which increases the workload of the street cleaners. If all households were given a free blue bin, it would save the cost of replacement green bags, reduce the amount of street cleaning, make it easier for the refuse collectors thus making them more efficient and allow more time to devote to other areas of the Pride In Erewash initiative. All it needs is a little joined up thinking - it's not difficult and in the current economic climate, you know it makes sense!.
You hit the nail on the head Garth. The only trouble comes from that word 'thinking' - It seems we are all guilty of assuming there is anyone left in public office capable of such a thing!
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