this guy knows what hes on about lol

[Sarah19]

Dear idiots in the council,
What part of we want our bins emptied every week don't you understand? This grand plan to help cut down on pollution by giving each household 3 million tiny plastic recycling boxes each is pure insanity. You need a degree to work out what day to put each bin out on, which means our streets are now full of overflowing blue containers, with bags of bottles next to them and their lids blown into next doors garden.

In Spain households pay a community charge which is a fraction of our council tax (AKA highway robbery), plus they pay £75.00 per year which covers the cost of emptying the bins EVERYDAY of the week. This is Spain! A nation which only a few years ago was considered a 3rd world country where you couldn't drink the water. In 2005 we have developed to the point where we leave rotten food and other unsavoury garbage fermenting and breeding for two weeks at a time genius!

Apparently this incompetence has even created a new type of crime; bin space stealing. This is the practice of throwing your rubbish in next door's bin because yours is full. Thankfully the temperature in this country rarely gets above freezing so we have yet to be troubled by the swarms of flies and rats you would expect to see!

craig beck

hahaha well said nice guy i like him already !

[jaseyboy]

give that guy a medal!!! quality!!

[Brian]

And so young as well

Brian:dummy2:

[Helly]

what a fab letter :D

[Solaris]

You don't need a degree at all.

You just need to put the leaflet somewhere, mines on the fridge. It's pretty simple.

However I am anti-recyling, but not for thoose reasons. It takes more energy to recycle something than to throw it away. We are not running out of landfills.
Paper is cut from trees on paper farms, the more paper is recyled the less paper farms there are, which means there is less trees grown as the land is used for farming and agriculture instead. So recycling paper just wastes energy and means more trees are cut down. The only thing were running out of is oil so, recycling plastics is the only worth while thing really.

[milly]

send that to Tony Blair.................and hope he takes heed.............

[Mattylad]

Originally Posted by Solaris

You don't need a degree at all.
You just need to put the leaflet somewhere, mines on the fridge. It's pretty simple.
However I am anti-recyling, but not for thoose reasons. It takes more energy to recycle something than to throw it away. We are not running out of landfills.
Paper is cut from trees on paper farms, the more paper is recyled the less paper farms there are, which means there is less trees grown as the land is used for farming and agriculture instead. So recycling paper just wastes energy and means more trees are cut down. The only thing were running out of is oil so, recycling plastics is the only worth while thing really.

Oh look, another one that knows what he is talking about - not!

I have never heard anything so stupid.

We "are" running out of landfill sites, by not recycling you are adding to the ever increasing mound of rubbish that we have to bury, and I for one don't want it to be buried anywhere near me.

It's not always about the energy but what eventually happens to something.
There is more than just paper that needs to be recycled and kept out of landfill and we are a use it & throw it away culture and it has to stop.

Every time that trees are cut down to make new paper,, don't think that a new one is planted that will replace it - it just does not happen like that.

If land was used for farming or agriculture, is that a bad thing? I think not.

[jellytot]

Great letter! its about time someone started talking sense about our god-dam bins! two weeks full of old, stinking rubbish is way too long!

[Solaris]

Originally Posted by Mattylad

Oh look, another one that knows what he is talking about - not!

I have never heard anything so stupid.

We "are" running out of landfill sites, by not recycling you are adding to the ever increasing mound of rubbish that we have to bury, and I for one don't want it to be buried anywhere near me.

It's not always about the energy but what eventually happens to something.
There is more than just paper that needs to be recycled and kept out of landfill and we are a use it & throw it away culture and it has to stop.

Every time that trees are cut down to make new paper,, don't think that a new one is planted that will replace it - it just does not happen like that.

If land was used for farming or agriculture, is that a bad thing? I think not.

Your wrong. A 20x20 mile landfill could hold of the the USA's Waste for 2000 years. Were not running out of Landfill space at all. And once a 'Land' is 'filled', it can be used for agriculture.

[Mattylad]

And where exactly would you put 20x20 miles of waste?
Especially given that the land cannot be used for building on for a very long time, also that no-one will want it in their vicinity and permission will NOT ever be given for landfill in areas of natural beauty etc.

Why do you assume that burying our waste is the thing to do? It's not, reusing what can be reused is a much better way to live our lives.

I suppose you don't consider the possibility that one day you might have children & would be leaving them piles of rubbish?

[Solaris]

Originally Posted by Mattylad

And where exactly would you put 20x20 miles of waste?
Especially given that the land cannot be used for building on for a very long time, also that no-one will want it in their vicinity and permission will NOT ever be given for landfill in areas of natural beauty etc.

Why do you assume that burying our waste is the thing to do? It's not, reusing what can be reused is a much better way to live our lives.

I suppose you don't consider the possibility that one day you might have children & would be leaving them piles of rubbish?

You could use the hundreds of millions of pounds that go into recycling and use it to buy the land.

[Mattylad]

Roflmao.

[mollie]

On my last visit to Burnley in February I was absolutley appalled by this recycling lark. Not the recycling as such, just the way it is being implemented. How insane for any council to come up with such a stupid method of dealing with waste. Surely it would be a better idea to supply each household with more normal sized wheely bins 1 for plastic 1 for glass 1 for general etc. that are easily transportable........especially by our older citizens. Can you imagine your 80 year old granny carting those silly boxes about.

Its lunacy .

Originally Posted by mollie

Surely it would be a better idea to supply each household with more normal sized wheely bins 1 for plastic 1 for glass 1 for general etc. .

rossendale council do provide full sized wheeley bins for all there recycling.