A thinking space for the politically curious
Author of Dirty Politics, Pat Regan, challenges the insanity of dropping weekly collections
Recycling market slumps dramatically!
Back in November 2008 I asked:
How will this crisis affect residents, our council authority and their political puppet supporters?
Ramifications of the Alternate Weekly Collection (AWC)
UK press reports indicate that the recycling industry is now in a state of decline. This cannot be good news for either humanity or the eco-system. The previously successful UK recycling industry is in very real predicament as mountains of unwanted cardboard, paper, plastic items and tin cans items are increasing in massive warehouses all over the land.
Of course it doesn’t take a genius to realise that such piles of unhygienic materials are attracting rats, mice and the ubiquitous flies along with maggots. Serious fire risk is always a possibility too. Up until a few months back the recycling industry was doing well, mostly from supply of recycling materials to markets in the Far East. At that time recycling firms could get excellent prices for waste cardboard and leftover plastics – yes, the sort of plastics that Southport residents have to take to the Bring Sites our selves.
The British Plastics Federation recently voiced concern that some recovered plastics may have to be sent to landfill following a further fall in prices paid for all grades. Prices for mixed plastic bottles have been particularly hard-hit. Plastic bottle and film collectors have stated that they are now finding it increasingly hard to get buyers for mixed plastic bottles, which has led to greater stockpiling of the materials. The UK’s Environment minister smugly indicated that 9 out of 10 town halls were in advance of their recycling targets and the Government's plan of recycling 40 per cent of household rubbish by 2010 were well on the way to being achieved. Yes – everything seems wonderful they told us but sadly for them the market slumped drastically. Prices dropped for materials as demand faltered. In China etc manufacturers cut their output in line with the global financial recession. Ramifications were understandably immense as throw away paper, aluminium tin cans and plastic bottles became virtually irrelevant. If nobody now wants such items where will they end up?
The UK recycling industry and local authorities are reported to be suffering greatly with some recycling operations claiming to be in crisis status over this worsening situation.
Metals recyclers have shown that doubt over markets for recovered metals is filtering back through the whole supply chain, with reports of smaller scrap yards being forced to close their doors and exported metals being sold at spectacularly reduced prices. Go back some months and merchants for waste could sell most of their stuff quite easily, yet now prices on the market are turning downwards and this is not good! Materials are being stored in warehouses and these huge waste hills are growing with no sign of current improvement.
Councils and the recycling industry have been taken aback for the slump and ill-conceived AWC schemes (which weekly collection campaigners have warned against for some years) are set to in fact make the situation much worse. Claims of success for recycling rates by councils will led to additional mountains of unwanted waste products. Extra packaging and plastic drinks bottles like we see at Xmas and Easter will further worsen the situation as more unwanted waste piles up. Residents happily recycling their waste as they have been told to will ironically in effect be 'adding' to and not helping the problem!
Letsrecycle.com website asked:
'How serious is the commodity crisis impacting on recyclers and local authorities?'
At the time of writing (Nov.08) 72% of respondents to this survey believed it to be ‘Very Serious’.
http://www.letsrecycle.com/survey_popup/answerShow.jsp
Reports in the press tell us that even the Environment Agency (EA), a body that oversees waste in England and Wales, admitted that the abrupt drop in demand for recyclables was "severe" and "unprecedented".
The EA has, I believe, stated that it would make life easier for recycling merchants to stockpile material for up to six months, or perhaps longer in some outstanding conditions. Will this be enough? With recycling and waste depots brimming at the seams, the Local Government Association (LGA) will be asking the government for assistance in paying for the warehousing of waste. Who ends up paying for this though?
LGA has also stated in the press that if such waste goes to landfill sites it will sustain added taxes, so that will be ultimately passed onto the man and woman in the street no doubt!
Many dictatorial Councils and recycling firms are now playing a form of Russian roulette as they are hoping that the current slump will just be a transitory phase - but what happens if it's here for some considerable period?
Admittedly, some recycling experts claim that the situation will improve however not everyone is so confident about this belief.
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) suspected that demand in China for waste paper materials would probably recover in the medium term. They however admitted that there were no palpable signs of urgently required Eastern buyers returning to the market soon. CPI also warned that the future of waste material prices would most likely ‘not’ return to the golden period in which they used to be prior to the recycling crisis. One reason given was that the stored materials, which are now growing in magnitude, would repress the market for a considerable time.
“With no obvious signs of Far East buyers returning to the market soon there is a serious possibility that storage of recyclables may end up being a very high risk strategy with huge costs to those requiring storage, including the tax payers through Local Authorities.”
Source – CPI November 2008 statement
http://www.paper.org.uk/news/2008/1011exportexodus.pdf
In my Sefton region, how will AWC - supportive councillors like Southport's Libdem David Tattersall deal with this issue? Did he and his equally supportive colleagues not foresee that recycling can only prove effective if there is a proper outlet for materials that are recycled by the hard-pressed populace? Was his thinking on this so-called 'Green' issue inherently 'flawed' from the outset as many believed?
Paradoxically, the success of recycling could make the current state of affairs even worse. Vermin and fire risk will naturally increase as tons of uncollected materials clog up warehouses that are unable to cope with demand. We now know that the rat population has increased and that the species are becoming resistant to pest poisons too. The prospect of the AWC creating a new plague situation is very real.
Doretta Cocks of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collections warns that such warehouses will not be pleasing places.
Doretta stated in the press:
"Not everybody washes tins out – they will be full of old cans of beans and tins of pilchards. They will attract rats."
Many people are asking what happens next if the slump does not improve – what happens to all that unwanted waste?
Will Sefton Council’s/Libdem enforced recycling AWC scheme backfire on them big time as they are pushed into taking all our tins, plastics etc to landfill sites? To be quite frank it already has exploded in their face leaving them all alone with nothing but in-party back biting for company.
CPI appear to think that the situation is very serious and warn that some material collected for recycling could go to incineration or landfill. Now where exactly would that leave our self-righteous Libdem regime in Southport with their precious AWC system? These sanctimonious types have been deaf, dumb and blind to the valid concerns of fed-up residents and anti-AWC campaigners for the start of this fiasco. Will they listen now?
Public confidence in this administration’s ability to deal with our waste is low, to say the least, but this may be the icing on top of their AWC cake. The fumbling UK government insisted that transporting stored recyclables to landfill sites would only be undertaken a last resort adding that it remains dedicated to ensuring that the price drop will not denigrate public buoyancy in the importance of recycling, nor lead to objectionable ecological consequences.
Of course judging by the way in which the Libdems and Sefton Council have cheerfully supported massive eco-vandalism for business development at Kew in Southport the latter point will not be overly important to them.
Eric Pickles, the Conservative MP, said the predicament called into question Labour's claim that recycling has soared during its time in office. Mr Pickles rightly asked how much it would cost taxpayers to store all the waste.
The LGA wants the government to help provide more secure places for recyclable waste stockpiling until demand recovers, and suggests the utilisation of vacant factories sites, martial bases, mills. An increase in storage capacity is critical if the government is to avoid reversing the progress it has allegedly made in boosting recycling rates.
Belligerent local authorities have enforced recycling and pulled out all the stops to make us love their contentious recycling schemes (which involve having decaying waste hanging around our gardens for 2 weeks or more) yet now in this crisis situation they can't afford to end up with this lot backfiring and leaving them with egg of their faces.
The whole situation is fast becoming an ill-considered farce.
Can we soon expect to see the growing mountains of plastic waste once again at Southport and Formby bring sites as the backlog due to the recycling slump hits merchants harder?
Can we expect to see yet more draconian regulations cropping up in the local press from councils that have clearly lost the plot!
Can we expect more ecologically destructive fly – tipping as frustrated residents continue to ask - 'what the hell they are we supposed to do with our excess waste?'
Will we get a fair council tax reduction for all the extra trips to the tip we are forced to make thanks to AWC? I recently tried to start a petition for this measure yet No 10 banned it - twice, under the crafty remit of technicalities.
http://www.ssgb.bravehost.com/petition_exposure.htm
Cath Regan, anti-AWC campaigner asked: "What are we supposed to do with the excess waste?"
Can we expect to see more apathy and fence-sitting intransigence from the town’s MP, as the frustrations of the public increase?
What all this will cost the taxpayer is not yet known but the antagonistic Libdem propaganda machine in Southport alone will have to go into 24 hour per day overtime to get out of this self-inflicted mess.
Doretta Cocks has understandably questioned the whole shaky viability of recycling.
"Should councils continue to collect recycling materials from householders just to be stored for months or even years because there is no end market?"
She added:
"Prices may never recover to previous levels so the continued viability of collection schemes has to be questioned. The vast tonnages of materials stored may also pose a serious fire risk as most will be paper and card products - the cheapest materials. I would recommend a return to weekly collections of general waste, but I am not hopeful that councils would consider doing so as they may believe the 'behavioural change' in residents they proudly boast as a result of alternate weekly collections will be adversely affected. We challenge this belief as it is obvious the vast majority of people see the need to recycle but ONLY when they can be confident schemes can be managed efficiently"
Doretta is quite correct. What is the point of any council continuing to force residents to sort through mountains of waste when it looks destined to end up unwanted by recycling manufacturers?
Nevertheless, if we ‘still’ want to play the - 'who’s best at recycling' game, the following is rather interesting.
The enforced Alternate Weekly Collection of waste, as advocated by Southport’s lumbering Libdem regime, is a provable shambles. Other countries manage to recycle extremely well and ‘without’ leaving rotting garbage around to attract disease in wheelie bins for the unsanitary two week period.
Switzerland - Rubbish collections: Once or twice a week. National recycling rate: up to 52 per cent
France Rubbish collections: Daily and three times a week in some areas; Recycling rate: 30 per cent.
Spain Rubbish collections: Daily in cities, three times a week elsewhere Recycling rate: 35 per cent.
The US Rubbish collections: 2-3 times per week Recycling rate: 32 per cent.
Some of the most successful 'green countries’ recycle a massive proportion of their rubbish yet still manage to empty bins once a week or even less.
Southport’s pro-AWC Council and its supportive Libdem propaganda wing are determined to override public opposition and concerns over health risks etc at ‘any’ cost. This is in fact rather comical for in Liverpool their colleagues oppose the AWC and call it a "Rat's Charter."
Which ever way you care to look at it things are NOT rosy in the recycling trade and this will soon have ramifications on us all.
Forcing residents to sort through recyclables, via removing hygienic weekly collections, was one thing yet having nowhere to sell such items is something else entirely.
What plans do Sefton Council and their Libdem supporters have to deal with this worsening crisis?
A few more points that bear looking at:
Why is the government proudly banging its drum over recycling when this basically means sending it all to landfill sites in the Far East?
The government has had a decade to get its act together and has failed miserably. Any claimed ‘Green’ agenda is nothing of the sort.
Where exactly are the recycling plants inside the U.K.?
This government has invested virtually nothing of the stealth (so-called Green) taxes it has reaped from the controversial global warming panic into the infrastructure required to recycle - accordingly its 'main objective' is fast becoming clear.
In a country which now has no feasible industry or industrial base the only thing we produce well is lots of rubbish and so the government are trying to make an business out of that for their own taxation purposes. Many believe that recycling is a natural aspect of the free market economy. Businesses do not of course squander anything if they can possibly help it. Consequently, recycling is logical but only if it is economically worthwhile.
For example, ALL toilet tissue is made from a preponderance of recycled paper and always has been. ALL glass has a percentage of Cullet (old broken glass) in it and always has had. However most of the 'trendy' recycling the government is trying to implement (via enforced and highly unworkable AWC) actually costs far more than it is worth and that's simply not going to happen now that we are in a recession.
Naturally, it didn't take a Merlin to predict what was going to happen if the means to cope at the end of the 'recycling' tunnel closed its doors and stopped accepting our discarded rubbish!
Of course the highly domineering and obstructive Sefton Council junta and the lumbering Libdem ‘Yes-Men,’ who insistently support AWC, will most likely not have thought out the ramifications behind this worsening situation. Maybe they think the press and public will not notice what is really going on?
When ramifications do hit home we can fully expect the Southport Libdem 2-week collection brigade to recreate reality to suit their comical and ever-changing agenda!
However, they will most likely soon be forced into reconsidering the vital concerns previously declared by angry residents and other concerned politicians.
Where will this leave our current bumbling UK government – what further damage will we now see to our economy? How will it make up for any shortfall in revenue?
Are the same professionals who are running these Laurel and Hardy style recycling schemes the same ‘experts’ who ran the banks?
See also:
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=10569
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=10547
http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/southport-news/southport-southport-news/2007/08/17/sefton-promises-bin-review-after-councillors-clash-over-rubbish-issue-101022-19644553/
http://www.weeklywaste.com/home.htm
Do we really know what they are doing with our waste?
Tons of British rubbish dumped on Indian farmland
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1053015/Uncovering-great-recycling-lie-trail-leads-India.html
Pat Regan is the author of 'Dirty Politics' and Founder of Save Southport Greenbelt
http://dirtypolitics.viviti.com
Available on Amazon now.
The fight is not over - it's only just started!
Back in November 2008 I asked:
How will this crisis affect residents, our council authority and their political puppet supporters?
Ramifications of the Alternate Weekly Collection (AWC)
UK press reports indicate that the recycling industry is now in a state of decline. This cannot be good news for either humanity or the eco-system. The previously successful UK recycling industry is in very real predicament as mountains of unwanted cardboard, paper, plastic items and tin cans items are increasing in massive warehouses all over the land.
Of course it doesn’t take a genius to realise that such piles of unhygienic materials are attracting rats, mice and the ubiquitous flies along with maggots. Serious fire risk is always a possibility too. Up until a few months back the recycling industry was doing well, mostly from supply of recycling materials to markets in the Far East. At that time recycling firms could get excellent prices for waste cardboard and leftover plastics – yes, the sort of plastics that Southport residents have to take to the Bring Sites our selves.
The British Plastics Federation recently voiced concern that some recovered plastics may have to be sent to landfill following a further fall in prices paid for all grades. Prices for mixed plastic bottles have been particularly hard-hit. Plastic bottle and film collectors have stated that they are now finding it increasingly hard to get buyers for mixed plastic bottles, which has led to greater stockpiling of the materials. The UK’s Environment minister smugly indicated that 9 out of 10 town halls were in advance of their recycling targets and the Government's plan of recycling 40 per cent of household rubbish by 2010 were well on the way to being achieved. Yes – everything seems wonderful they told us but sadly for them the market slumped drastically. Prices dropped for materials as demand faltered. In China etc manufacturers cut their output in line with the global financial recession. Ramifications were understandably immense as throw away paper, aluminium tin cans and plastic bottles became virtually irrelevant. If nobody now wants such items where will they end up?
The UK recycling industry and local authorities are reported to be suffering greatly with some recycling operations claiming to be in crisis status over this worsening situation.
Metals recyclers have shown that doubt over markets for recovered metals is filtering back through the whole supply chain, with reports of smaller scrap yards being forced to close their doors and exported metals being sold at spectacularly reduced prices. Go back some months and merchants for waste could sell most of their stuff quite easily, yet now prices on the market are turning downwards and this is not good! Materials are being stored in warehouses and these huge waste hills are growing with no sign of current improvement.
Councils and the recycling industry have been taken aback for the slump and ill-conceived AWC schemes (which weekly collection campaigners have warned against for some years) are set to in fact make the situation much worse. Claims of success for recycling rates by councils will led to additional mountains of unwanted waste products. Extra packaging and plastic drinks bottles like we see at Xmas and Easter will further worsen the situation as more unwanted waste piles up. Residents happily recycling their waste as they have been told to will ironically in effect be 'adding' to and not helping the problem!
Letsrecycle.com website asked:
'How serious is the commodity crisis impacting on recyclers and local authorities?'
At the time of writing (Nov.08) 72% of respondents to this survey believed it to be ‘Very Serious’.
http://www.letsrecycle.com/survey_popup/answerShow.jsp
Reports in the press tell us that even the Environment Agency (EA), a body that oversees waste in England and Wales, admitted that the abrupt drop in demand for recyclables was "severe" and "unprecedented".
The EA has, I believe, stated that it would make life easier for recycling merchants to stockpile material for up to six months, or perhaps longer in some outstanding conditions. Will this be enough? With recycling and waste depots brimming at the seams, the Local Government Association (LGA) will be asking the government for assistance in paying for the warehousing of waste. Who ends up paying for this though?
LGA has also stated in the press that if such waste goes to landfill sites it will sustain added taxes, so that will be ultimately passed onto the man and woman in the street no doubt!
Many dictatorial Councils and recycling firms are now playing a form of Russian roulette as they are hoping that the current slump will just be a transitory phase - but what happens if it's here for some considerable period?
Admittedly, some recycling experts claim that the situation will improve however not everyone is so confident about this belief.
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) suspected that demand in China for waste paper materials would probably recover in the medium term. They however admitted that there were no palpable signs of urgently required Eastern buyers returning to the market soon. CPI also warned that the future of waste material prices would most likely ‘not’ return to the golden period in which they used to be prior to the recycling crisis. One reason given was that the stored materials, which are now growing in magnitude, would repress the market for a considerable time.
“With no obvious signs of Far East buyers returning to the market soon there is a serious possibility that storage of recyclables may end up being a very high risk strategy with huge costs to those requiring storage, including the tax payers through Local Authorities.”
Source – CPI November 2008 statement
http://www.paper.org.uk/news/2008/1011exportexodus.pdf
In my Sefton region, how will AWC - supportive councillors like Southport's Libdem David Tattersall deal with this issue? Did he and his equally supportive colleagues not foresee that recycling can only prove effective if there is a proper outlet for materials that are recycled by the hard-pressed populace? Was his thinking on this so-called 'Green' issue inherently 'flawed' from the outset as many believed?
Paradoxically, the success of recycling could make the current state of affairs even worse. Vermin and fire risk will naturally increase as tons of uncollected materials clog up warehouses that are unable to cope with demand. We now know that the rat population has increased and that the species are becoming resistant to pest poisons too. The prospect of the AWC creating a new plague situation is very real.
Doretta Cocks of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collections warns that such warehouses will not be pleasing places.
Doretta stated in the press:
"Not everybody washes tins out – they will be full of old cans of beans and tins of pilchards. They will attract rats."
Many people are asking what happens next if the slump does not improve – what happens to all that unwanted waste?
Will Sefton Council’s/Libdem enforced recycling AWC scheme backfire on them big time as they are pushed into taking all our tins, plastics etc to landfill sites? To be quite frank it already has exploded in their face leaving them all alone with nothing but in-party back biting for company.
CPI appear to think that the situation is very serious and warn that some material collected for recycling could go to incineration or landfill. Now where exactly would that leave our self-righteous Libdem regime in Southport with their precious AWC system? These sanctimonious types have been deaf, dumb and blind to the valid concerns of fed-up residents and anti-AWC campaigners for the start of this fiasco. Will they listen now?
Public confidence in this administration’s ability to deal with our waste is low, to say the least, but this may be the icing on top of their AWC cake. The fumbling UK government insisted that transporting stored recyclables to landfill sites would only be undertaken a last resort adding that it remains dedicated to ensuring that the price drop will not denigrate public buoyancy in the importance of recycling, nor lead to objectionable ecological consequences.
Of course judging by the way in which the Libdems and Sefton Council have cheerfully supported massive eco-vandalism for business development at Kew in Southport the latter point will not be overly important to them.
Eric Pickles, the Conservative MP, said the predicament called into question Labour's claim that recycling has soared during its time in office. Mr Pickles rightly asked how much it would cost taxpayers to store all the waste.
The LGA wants the government to help provide more secure places for recyclable waste stockpiling until demand recovers, and suggests the utilisation of vacant factories sites, martial bases, mills. An increase in storage capacity is critical if the government is to avoid reversing the progress it has allegedly made in boosting recycling rates.
Belligerent local authorities have enforced recycling and pulled out all the stops to make us love their contentious recycling schemes (which involve having decaying waste hanging around our gardens for 2 weeks or more) yet now in this crisis situation they can't afford to end up with this lot backfiring and leaving them with egg of their faces.
The whole situation is fast becoming an ill-considered farce.
Can we soon expect to see the growing mountains of plastic waste once again at Southport and Formby bring sites as the backlog due to the recycling slump hits merchants harder?
Can we expect to see yet more draconian regulations cropping up in the local press from councils that have clearly lost the plot!
Can we expect more ecologically destructive fly – tipping as frustrated residents continue to ask - 'what the hell they are we supposed to do with our excess waste?'
Will we get a fair council tax reduction for all the extra trips to the tip we are forced to make thanks to AWC? I recently tried to start a petition for this measure yet No 10 banned it - twice, under the crafty remit of technicalities.
http://www.ssgb.bravehost.com/petition_exposure.htm
Cath Regan, anti-AWC campaigner asked: "What are we supposed to do with the excess waste?"
Can we expect to see more apathy and fence-sitting intransigence from the town’s MP, as the frustrations of the public increase?
What all this will cost the taxpayer is not yet known but the antagonistic Libdem propaganda machine in Southport alone will have to go into 24 hour per day overtime to get out of this self-inflicted mess.
Doretta Cocks has understandably questioned the whole shaky viability of recycling.
"Should councils continue to collect recycling materials from householders just to be stored for months or even years because there is no end market?"
She added:
"Prices may never recover to previous levels so the continued viability of collection schemes has to be questioned. The vast tonnages of materials stored may also pose a serious fire risk as most will be paper and card products - the cheapest materials. I would recommend a return to weekly collections of general waste, but I am not hopeful that councils would consider doing so as they may believe the 'behavioural change' in residents they proudly boast as a result of alternate weekly collections will be adversely affected. We challenge this belief as it is obvious the vast majority of people see the need to recycle but ONLY when they can be confident schemes can be managed efficiently"
Doretta is quite correct. What is the point of any council continuing to force residents to sort through mountains of waste when it looks destined to end up unwanted by recycling manufacturers?
Nevertheless, if we ‘still’ want to play the - 'who’s best at recycling' game, the following is rather interesting.
The enforced Alternate Weekly Collection of waste, as advocated by Southport’s lumbering Libdem regime, is a provable shambles. Other countries manage to recycle extremely well and ‘without’ leaving rotting garbage around to attract disease in wheelie bins for the unsanitary two week period.
Switzerland - Rubbish collections: Once or twice a week. National recycling rate: up to 52 per cent
France Rubbish collections: Daily and three times a week in some areas; Recycling rate: 30 per cent.
Spain Rubbish collections: Daily in cities, three times a week elsewhere Recycling rate: 35 per cent.
The US Rubbish collections: 2-3 times per week Recycling rate: 32 per cent.
Some of the most successful 'green countries’ recycle a massive proportion of their rubbish yet still manage to empty bins once a week or even less.
Southport’s pro-AWC Council and its supportive Libdem propaganda wing are determined to override public opposition and concerns over health risks etc at ‘any’ cost. This is in fact rather comical for in Liverpool their colleagues oppose the AWC and call it a "Rat's Charter."
Which ever way you care to look at it things are NOT rosy in the recycling trade and this will soon have ramifications on us all.
Forcing residents to sort through recyclables, via removing hygienic weekly collections, was one thing yet having nowhere to sell such items is something else entirely.
What plans do Sefton Council and their Libdem supporters have to deal with this worsening crisis?
A few more points that bear looking at:
Why is the government proudly banging its drum over recycling when this basically means sending it all to landfill sites in the Far East?
The government has had a decade to get its act together and has failed miserably. Any claimed ‘Green’ agenda is nothing of the sort.
Where exactly are the recycling plants inside the U.K.?
This government has invested virtually nothing of the stealth (so-called Green) taxes it has reaped from the controversial global warming panic into the infrastructure required to recycle - accordingly its 'main objective' is fast becoming clear.
In a country which now has no feasible industry or industrial base the only thing we produce well is lots of rubbish and so the government are trying to make an business out of that for their own taxation purposes. Many believe that recycling is a natural aspect of the free market economy. Businesses do not of course squander anything if they can possibly help it. Consequently, recycling is logical but only if it is economically worthwhile.
For example, ALL toilet tissue is made from a preponderance of recycled paper and always has been. ALL glass has a percentage of Cullet (old broken glass) in it and always has had. However most of the 'trendy' recycling the government is trying to implement (via enforced and highly unworkable AWC) actually costs far more than it is worth and that's simply not going to happen now that we are in a recession.
Naturally, it didn't take a Merlin to predict what was going to happen if the means to cope at the end of the 'recycling' tunnel closed its doors and stopped accepting our discarded rubbish!
Of course the highly domineering and obstructive Sefton Council junta and the lumbering Libdem ‘Yes-Men,’ who insistently support AWC, will most likely not have thought out the ramifications behind this worsening situation. Maybe they think the press and public will not notice what is really going on?
When ramifications do hit home we can fully expect the Southport Libdem 2-week collection brigade to recreate reality to suit their comical and ever-changing agenda!
However, they will most likely soon be forced into reconsidering the vital concerns previously declared by angry residents and other concerned politicians.
Where will this leave our current bumbling UK government – what further damage will we now see to our economy? How will it make up for any shortfall in revenue?
Are the same professionals who are running these Laurel and Hardy style recycling schemes the same ‘experts’ who ran the banks?
See also:
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=10569
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=10547
http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/southport-news/southport-southport-news/2007/08/17/sefton-promises-bin-review-after-councillors-clash-over-rubbish-issue-101022-19644553/
http://www.weeklywaste.com/home.htm
Do we really know what they are doing with our waste?
Tons of British rubbish dumped on Indian farmland
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1053015/Uncovering-great-recycling-lie-trail-leads-India.html
Pat Regan is the author of 'Dirty Politics' and Founder of Save Southport Greenbelt
http://dirtypolitics.viviti.com
Available on Amazon now.
The fight is not over - it's only just started!
Add a Comment
About
© 2009 Created by Al Craig on Ning. Create Your Own Social Network
You need to be a member of THE BLUE ROOM to add comments!
Join this social network