IN last week's Free Press, Denbighshire's Senior Waste Officer complained that the county council were not given the opportunity to respond to accusations of "pulling wool over resident's eyes" in relation to the collection of segregated waste for recycling.
Had the officer actually read the January 7 article properly, he would have known that one-third of the story was in fact given over to the council's response.
Sadly, that response did not address concerns over the fact that waste carefully segregated by residents into blue bags for paper and clear bags for tins and bottles, ends up being compacted together upon collection.
Is he seriously asking us to believe that it is cost-effective - not to mention time-and-energy efficient - to produce two different types of refuse sack; to have residents segregate their waste accordingly; only to have the whole lot crushed together in the compaction vehicle before driving it away, presumably to be segregated once again?
I use the word "presumably" because we must surely now question what really does happen to this compacted waste once it is driven away in the council's landfill-style vehicle.
In his letter he says he is astounded by "the remarkable appetite shown by Denbighshire residents for recycling".
How long, I wonder, will that appetite persist as more and more of us become sick of the fact the county council are not being seen to embrace the ethic with the same level of enthusiasm?
CHRIS BIRCHALL
Denbighshire
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