Thanks to Simon Mayo and Ross Hawkins for inviting me to appear on the Simon Mayo show on Wednesday 27th October.
We were discussing recycling and the growing trend for local authorities in the UK to introduce alternate weekly collections. Hopefully I put our points across that whilst SUPPORTING RECYCLING we believe a weekly collection of general perishable waste is essential, especially in the summer months. Simon Mayo and Ross Hawkins were joined in the London studio by the Editor of Letsrecycle.com. Councillor Jill Baston (Executive Member for Environment and Transport, Southampton City Council) and I were in the Southampton studio.
Callers to the show were divided in their support of these schemes. If John from Leicestershire finds this website I would like to thank him for his views which he put forward with such passion "10 or 11 wheelie bins standing together awaiting collection and they stunk to high heaven"!! He is one of the many residents making extra trips to the Civic Amenity Sites to dispose of their perishable waste.
This begs the question "How environmentally-friendly are these schemes if hundreds or thousands of people are making frequent trips to the "tip" in their cars, obviously causing more air pollution by doing so, because the refuse collection scheme in their area is inadequate?"
Many thanks to all our supporters - again, your comments are invaluable.