So much for good intentions – I have got as far as making a list of things to complain about (I like lists) but have yet to do another formal complaint following my success the other week. Oh well. I guess I will get round to it eventually.
The thing that is bugging me at the moment is recycling. I think I have said before that I am really sick of being told what to do by our bloody government, and it is particularly irksome when they don’t make it easy to do the right thing. I was harping on about recycling and the future of the planet long before the politicians got on the bandwagon. Now of course, in true Tony Blair fashion, we have loads of stupid government targets about how much councils are meant to recycle, by tonne. So what happens? Well, our council takes away the heavy stuff and valuable stuff and sod the rest, that’s what. So, for instance, plastic doesn’t get collected from our homes because it doesn’t weigh enough to make it worthwhile. This is not the fault of the recyclers, who are a social enterprise company who provide training for people with learning difficulties – they used to rely on European funding and even shut down for a while due to a lack of money. Eventually the council did see sense and now fund them (I think) to collect our recyclable rubbish, but as I say, subject to these ludicrous targets. I know for a fact that some other councils in England do collect all recyclable waste from households so it just seems crazy to me that there is this disparity in how councils interpret the regulations. I’m off to write to the council and my MP.
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