No logic in council's green waste policy (From Malvern Gazette)

No logic in council's green waste policy

10:24am Friday 3rd August 2007 in Letters

I support Coun. John Raine (Your Letters, July 20) regarding the county council's recycling policy and the classification of domestic and commercial waste. I would like to ask where is the logic of selling green waste bags at £1 each, or 50p to the elderly, to dispose of garden waste which is then picked up by Malvern Hills District Council and put into landfill?

If these people employ a gardener to keep their gardens tidy, I understand from Malvern Hills District Council that the gardener cannot take the green waste away and take it to a recycling centre to go into the compost container because it is classed as trade waste.

Surely it would be more sensible for the gardener to be encouraged to take the green bags to the recycling centre and put the contents into the composting bin rather than leave the bags to be disposed of by Malvern Hills Refuse Collection in landfill.

Why is this an extra tax on people least able to dispose of this waste themselves and create unnecessary plastic waste to go into landfill?

Brian Skeys, Hanley Swan.