Poor refuse practice (From Western Telegraph)

Poor refuse practice

9:49am Friday 3rd February 2012 in Letters

Dear Letters (Western Telegraph), Refuse Collection - ‘A poor show Pembrokeshire County Council’ This may well be the case all over the county, but I am, and residents of Gath ward are, becoming increasingly frustrated with an aspect of our refuse collection.

I understand the importance of separating recycling from perishable refuse, and I also accept that it is the home dweller’s responsibility to bag it correctly, initially. However, when the odd mistake is made in bagging refuse, is it acceptable for the later recycling collectors to simply leave orange bags with perishables, with merely a reprimanding tag, and no one from the council making any attempt to remove that bag at a later point?

In the real world, no resident is going to attend to a discarded item and re-bag it with the obvious risks involved. Therefore, when is it to be collected? Or is it simply the case that the bag is left, ripped open by vermin or cats and litter strewn everywhere, some of it hazardous, in areas that children are occupying?

This is clearly poor practice that is punitive to the great majority of residents that do bag correctly. Where is the policing of irresponsible litter discarding by the minority if the council refuses to take proper responsibility for refuse it is paid (with our council taxes) to collect and dispose of safely?

Perhaps someone at the council could contact me regarding this issue so that I can relay and forward on that information to those in Garth ward who have raised the complaint with me.

Yours sincerely, John Vaughan Garth Ward candidate in the forthcoming May elections.