Sir – Why do our local elected representatives insist on flying in the face of public opinion?
Most people think places you can drive into to dump your rubbish are eminently sensible. Oxfordshire Country Council is think of closing some to save money.
We all know — everyone except the council, of course — that this will result in an outbreak of fly-tipping.
The new home rubbish collection system needs a degree in rubbish (or it is waste-disposal management solutions?) to understand it. The net effect, as far as I can tell, is to cut collection from every week to every two and litter our streets with large, ugly plastic containers. The council trumpets its success yet everyone I know bemoans it.
Why, for once, can’t they come up with a popular move to save money? For example, halving the salaries of the panjandrums who foist this rubbish upon us.
Now, that’s something that would have almost universal approval. We pay them to dispose of rubbish not generate it.
John Wright, Cumnor
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