| Topic: | Re:Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | David Lesniak | |
| Date/Time: | 01/01/26 08:35:00 |
| Clearly, Philippa, this is your passion. You appear to be a recycling geek of sorts, no offense. Yet oddly there are plenty of taxpayers who simply want to live their lives and go about discarding rubbish and recycling without having to attend expos at Excel to devise a plan. Nor do they want to collect rubbish inside next to the sofa. Crazy, I know. They also expect the services for which they've paid to be provided. Your basically saying to people they need to paint their homes after having paid a painter to do so but the painter disappeared with your money. No. Councils are failing to deliver. They are breaking the social and literal contract paid for. As for larger items, there should be a monthly collection. It could easily be done to service one side of the street and then the other or one ward then the next. So mattresses, etc., are collected and disposed of properly. It should be included in your taxes but could easily be a surcharge the way garden waste collection is (note to councils - this is what a legitimate revenue stream looks like). It would reduce fly tipping and the need for people to drive to a depot that either no longer exists or refuses you because you don't come from the "right" borough or whatever paltry excuse pops up for, yet again, not doing the job we've all paid for. Not rocket science. No expo needed. Just common sense, really. |