Recycling fanfare obscures cut in refuse collections?


We should have been serious about it years ago - recycling that is. But, the recent hype from Aberdeenshire Council about kerbside collections of recycling seems to have obscured some of the fine detail.

For a start, those of us who live outside the actual urban area have been given a gigantic paper recycling bin which is collected. But the bigger, bulkier recycling items - such as bottles and cans - still have to be taken to the recycling point at the Torryburn Hotel, or elsewhere in Aberdeenshire.

Slightly more concerning is that the normal refuse collections appear to have been cut. I am I alone in not having noticed anything about that in the various leaflet drops from Aberdeenshire Council?

We now find that we have to, somehow, cram two weeks of garbage into our wheelie bins and - judging from what I saw driving through Kintore this morning - most people find two weeks refuse simply will not fit into a wheelie bin. So there were assorted black bags, carrier bags and boxes at the kerbside, or balanced on the bins.

Does this not take us back to the beginning. The era before wheelie bins? I can envisage the old problems returning. Burst bin bags. Marauding seagulls and rubbish blowing around. Oh, and do we get a rebate on our council tax for having less collections?

Posted: Wed - June 21, 2006 at 09:58 AM          

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