Letter: Idea for more recycling boxes is an act of total lunacy by EU
I turned on the TV to see a council official introducing a tenant to 14 more recycling boxes, it was a comedy show.
But it is being given serious consideration, and by guess who? Correct, the European Union. The community in Brussels, not of this planet, wants to set a legally binding 70 per cent recycling target for all local authorities.
Why is it that in all of these proposals, logic and common sense are put aside and disorganised lunacy moves in?
No one considers the householder, their already punitive council tax, probable lack of space for more bins, increased, (and unpaid for) effort required. No one considers the dreadful and often disgusting sight and smell of pavements covered with multi-coloured bins which, more often than not, stay there until the next collection.
Two bins are required, one for food waste and another for the rest – plastic, metals, paper, cardboard and glass.
It would require a refuse truck with just two compartments instead of seven or eight. It would go to a central point with conveyor and containers for segregation. It worked in a thousand coal mines without problem, it was called screening, removing the rubbish and leaving the coal, and it would cost a fraction of the present ludicrous proposals.
One thing is perfectly clear to all, it is the European Union which ought to be recycled – and soon.
Bob Wydell, Oswestry
