COUNCIL WANTS TO TALK RUBBISH

By Eddie Yeates

WOKEMORELAND and Farcical Council are gearing up to talk a load of rubbish.

Five weeks before Christmas – with taxpayers at their most distracted- the council has ushered out a suspicious sounding public survey.

The Lib Dem dictatorship is seeking feedback about “Reshaping Future Waste and Recycling Collections” with the aim of generating less rubbish.

Deadline? 20th December.

Given that Westmorland and Furness council is over-stocked with screaming eco-worriers, any person out there with a wheelie bin or recycling box would be wise to pay attention.

Because this survey may well be the starting pistol on a madcap re-jigging of recycling and rubbish collection arrangements across Penrith, Barrow and Kendal, etc.

Announcing the news, the council muttered darkly that it has to make “7.5 million collections a year to 115,000 households in one of the largest rural areas of the country”.

One translation? High-powered councillors are cringing that the authority’s fleet of massive bin lorries travel thousands of square miles on millions of gallons of nasty fossil fuels.

Bear in mind that W&F is so impatient to attain its prized “Net Zero” badge, it hasn’t even set an arbitrary date in the future. Instead, the three-line whip has gone out that the council must get to Net Zero “as soon as possible”.

One way the council could meaningfully “reduce annual waste” is to reduce the amount it collects annually!

That could pave the way for reductions in kerbside collections to reduce the number of refuse lorry journeys, the introduction of inadequate tiny wheelie bins for households, and cutting the litre-capacity of any bin bags or boxes it provides.

The involvement in this matter of the Lib Dem council’s climate change gas bag, councillor Giles Archibald, should alarm anyone who values their binmen and wants their collections left well alone.

As the council’s chief “eco-preacher”, any changes deemed good for the planet are always likely to feature highly in Giles’ mind.

Even over minor concerns such as whether they are bad for residents who just want the council to do its job and take away their rubbish.