The response below is from Chris Roderick, a chair within a local parish council in South Yorkshire, who talks of his frustration in trying to set up a composting scheme for garden waste.
“I heartily applaud CRN's comments on this latest daft strategy from an increasingly daft government.
“I live in one of the poorer performing areas, and am chair of a local parish council. In September last year we submitted a planning application to run a composting scheme for garden waste only on a disused allotment site.
“This has been fraught with difficulties for over a year and still remains unresolved. We have been asked to provide traffic assessments although there will be only one vehicle using the site, and noise assessments on normal garden equipment.
“Now we find out they are going to bid into this pot of money which rewards poor performers. All it will mean is another clutch of officers and more bureaucratic mayhem, with the usual waste of resources.
“Many of these so-called poorer councils have problems in other areas then recycling, a lot of it down to their own mismanagement and waste of resources on half-baked projects that the average 12 year old could tell them were doomed at the outset.
“Proper recycling means a better environment and better health for the inhabitants of these areas. It also means creation of long-term job opportunities, far better than some of the half-baked so-called 'job creation' schemes around at the moment.
From a purely cynical point of view it would be interesting to find out how many of these councils are Labour controlled.”
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