PaulRogan

I expect that Calderdale's Cabinet will approve the Waste Management Policy and Strategy on 4th Dec as recommended. There will no doubt be some outcries as time goes by and when aspects, of what will then be approved Policy are implemented. We all know about the outcry last year when the former Tory Porfolio holder proposed a charge for bin bags. Will the newly appointed Tory accountable for the present proposals get a less hostile reception for what is basically the same proposals as before, albeit better hidden and recycled in a different way? There are two immediate concerns in the present Policy proposals.

The voluntary & community sector, well established, with good performance and many added advantages has been excluded from a direct arrangement with the Council.

Do the people, and I mean Rastrick here, understand and really want a 2 weekly wheelie bin service? Do they want to see their street scenes littered with sentinals in black and green along every pavement? Do they have places to store wheelies when not out for collection? Will people really wheel them back after they have been emptied or will they leave them at their gates 24/7, notwitstanding that thy will blow or be pushed over, set fire to and generally otherwise abused?