It is always encouraging to learn that one is not alone.
At
least 3000 people have now taken the trouble to object to the council’s totally
irrational bin swap scheme.
A Tameside resident, proving that not all Tamesider's are of
the lemming persuasion, has opened an on-line petition stating logical
objections to the scheme and questioning the council’s validity in introducing
such nonsense.
So far, Kevin Cooper of Denton has gathered the names of over
3000 like-minded souls on: https://www.change.org/p/tameside-council-environmental-services-stop-tameside-council-s-plans-to-bin-swap-the-general-waste-bin-to-the-smaller-green-bin/share?just_signed=true
Throughout this sorry pilot scheme the council has claimed
initial success for recycling rates and reductions in items going to landfill, but
there is growing evidence, right under our feet, that the new bin swap
collection scheme is going to turn out more costly in a whole range of ways.
A seventy eight per cent success rate! Frankly, Tameside
Council, that’s rubbish!
Another point you might like to take note of, is when ‘the
council’ introduce us to one of their brainchildren, they usually announce it
through the particular councillor who is ‘responsible’ for that particular
function, however, if their brainchild is criticised in any way, shape or form,
it’s always a nondescript ‘council spokesperson’ who is dragged before the
media in the hope of appeasing the populous!
They do this for two main reasons;
first a 'spokesperson' is anonymous and therefore cannot be called personally
into question.
The second is to protect the councillor ‘responsible’ from
public ridicule thus allowing them to carry on regardless!
In this case the ‘spokesperson’ appears to have missed the
salient point in that if a family currently fills their large black bin with
general waste over the collection period, that same amount of waste will not
fit into a smaller bin, no matter what colour it is!
To put it plainly, the
consents of a full big bin, into an empty small bin won’t go!
I urge all my readers
to sign the petition. …It won’t make any difference, as those on the council
have already decided to proceed with this stupidity regardless, but it will
illustrate that these career councillors only come knocking when they need
re-electing!
Those green bins are too small for the daily rubbish for family's. People are going to be stacking up rubbish.
ReplyDeleteIf lots of people wrote to John Taylor to complain about this bin swap it would have a massive affect on him.
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