Brent Liberal Democrats seem to have finally come down against our new recycling system, according to the Willesden Times. When the Tories put forward a motion against the collections, the Liberal Democrats chose to abstain. Presumably, their new stance is an opportunist u-turn, rather like their change over emissions based parking charges.
To reiterate, the new system is an improvement because it leads to more recycling, lower disposal costs and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. When Brent's recycling rate goes up, the Liberal Democrats will be left on the side of a policy that fewer and fewer authorities defend, and presumably they will eventually have to backtrack as they did over ASBOs.
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That's a very silly complaint imho, if the paper is reporting it accurately. Surely there are better things for a Councillor to be doing. e.g. coming up for ways for the council to save money so they don't have to cut so many services!
While, as I said at the Wembley Area Forum last year, I think you could have come up with a cleverer solution even with the same number of vans (e.g. reducing the organics bin collections in the winter months), ultimately I think your scheme will result in more recycling - if not for anything else then purely because:
1) larger recycling bin
2) lids on the recycling bin so less items blown away and then put in landfill bins
3) ability to recycle more types of products - e.g. tetra pack(tm) cartons
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