Rubbish plans will increase fly tipping

By lvickers

I write in response to last week's Page Seven story about post code check for tip users.

The whole activity of checking postcodes for every tip user is absolutely ridiculous.

The idea of using the tip is to hygienically dispose of rubbish that is in excess of normal collecting capacity by the weekly collection.

It is brilliant that so many people are recycling, so the concept of 'thinking globally and acting locally' is easily understood by all of us, the great unwashed. However the council, and councillor Len Gregory, think it is a brilliant idea to check post codes of tip users, without thinking it through.

It is proposed that all tip users are going to be asked their post code and also prove their residency.

This is going to take time and make the queues even longer. Then it will take more time to check to see if it's a correct code.

Next, the rubbish operative has to use a computer to check the truth; more time, longer queues, more angry people waiting.

So the problem of fly tipping is made worse, as what do fed up people do after they have tried to do right thing? Fly tip.

It will not increase the speed of service, all it would do is increase fly tipping, and reduce the amount of people wanting to recycle, as waiting about in long lines to throw rubbish is not the most entertaining thing to do on a weekend after a hard week's work. That is for the few of us who have a job.

Rubbish is rubbish, whatever the post code.

Recycling is recycling, whatever the post code.

Please do not make it another bureaucratic blunder, without thinking it through.

Just a few moments of thinking by the esteemed councillor and the council on the idea of 'thinking globally and acting locally' should bring some enlightenment that rubbish is exactly what it is, rubbish.

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