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Bins plans are a ‘con’
14/ 8/2008
Copy of letter sent to Rushmoor Council
With reference to recent announcements of changes to waste collections.
While of course I am fully aware the impact we all make on our environment and always willing to contribute by doing my bit, I refuse to sit by AGAIN, and watch a bunch of jumped-up redundant bureaucrats bowing to EU missives, deliberately trying to con me and the rest of Aldershot and Farnborough.
First, when has Rushmoor ever without a secret agenda, been pro-active about anything?
If a person’s green wheelie bin needs replacing after 20 years, then fine – replace them. But like for like, thank you.
To suggest new smaller bins are to be issued to encourage recycling is an insult to the intelligence of rats, never mind the rest of us.
If encouragement were needed then I suggest BIGGER blue recycling bins as standard for everyone or a return to weekly collections.
As it is now the green bins provide an overflow for when the blue bins become full; because of fortnightly collections, the capacity of recycled material collected has been reduced by 50 per cent – or “half” in English.
If this does not provide the solution you’re looking for then consult your notes from the waste workshops that were held. I’m aware of many good suggestions offered, but ripping off the public wasn’t one discussed.
To now suggest the same for the green non-recyclable rubbish but doing a swap, that is, halving the size but retaining weekly collections – is scandalous and is clearly to give a false impression of an improvement by Rushmoor in reducing waste collected.
It is not a solution but merely a sleight of hand con trick that pulls the wool over innocent tax payers’ eyes.
Might I suggest, if Rushmoor is serious about doing the decent thing, either give us our sick town back so it can be properly managed and some of the damage can be rectified before it becomes a landfill, or try slashing your salaries by 50 per cent and the community tax along with it.
That might then pay for a new recycling facility that was promised 15 years ago.
Dean Mansfield, Campbell Fields, Aldershot
With reference to recent announcements of changes to waste collections.
While of course I am fully aware the impact we all make on our environment and always willing to contribute by doing my bit, I refuse to sit by AGAIN, and watch a bunch of jumped-up redundant bureaucrats bowing to EU missives, deliberately trying to con me and the rest of Aldershot and Farnborough.
First, when has Rushmoor ever without a secret agenda, been pro-active about anything?
If a person’s green wheelie bin needs replacing after 20 years, then fine – replace them. But like for like, thank you.
To suggest new smaller bins are to be issued to encourage recycling is an insult to the intelligence of rats, never mind the rest of us.
If encouragement were needed then I suggest BIGGER blue recycling bins as standard for everyone or a return to weekly collections.
As it is now the green bins provide an overflow for when the blue bins become full; because of fortnightly collections, the capacity of recycled material collected has been reduced by 50 per cent – or “half” in English.
If this does not provide the solution you’re looking for then consult your notes from the waste workshops that were held. I’m aware of many good suggestions offered, but ripping off the public wasn’t one discussed.
To now suggest the same for the green non-recyclable rubbish but doing a swap, that is, halving the size but retaining weekly collections – is scandalous and is clearly to give a false impression of an improvement by Rushmoor in reducing waste collected.
It is not a solution but merely a sleight of hand con trick that pulls the wool over innocent tax payers’ eyes.
Might I suggest, if Rushmoor is serious about doing the decent thing, either give us our sick town back so it can be properly managed and some of the damage can be rectified before it becomes a landfill, or try slashing your salaries by 50 per cent and the community tax along with it.
That might then pay for a new recycling facility that was promised 15 years ago.
Dean Mansfield, Campbell Fields, Aldershot
8/01/2009 at 22:18