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Recycling bin changes just don't add up
I recently received my notification that my recycling boxes were being replaced by recycling wheelie bins next year.
The two new 180-litre bins provide 360 litres total, just 30 litres greater than the combined capacity of the three 110-litre boxes currently in use.
However, one of the 110-litre bins is for metal and plastic, one for glass and the other for paper and cardboard, so in reality paper recycling capacity will increase from 110 litres to 180 litres, but plastic, glass and metal recycling capacity combined decreases from 220 litres to 180 litres.
Worse still, the new bins are each collected once every four weeks rather than every other week, meaning that every four weeks, paper recycling capacity decreases from 220 litres (two pick-ups of a 110-litre bin per month) to 180 litres, while plastic, glass and metal recycling capacity decreases from 440 litres to just 180 litres.
Apparently the council thinks these decreases in recycling capacity will increase the amount of recycling.
G Amey Holgate YorkRecommended reads:
Modified exhausts are a road nuisance
With reference to Rose Berl’s letter in The Press 5 Oct, I concur!
I live close to a busy road and noisy vehicles, mainly motor cycles, are a constant irritation. I have no doubt many of these vehicles have been “modified” in some way; I suspect mainly the removal of silencer baffles which creates a straight through exhaust system. Illegal.
It doesn’t improve performance, but it does of course, attract the attention the driver so desperately needs.
Furthermore, I question if they are aware of the implications in respect to their insurance cover, if indeed they are insured.
It is my understanding, rightly or wrongly, that this can invalidate any insurance claim should they not declare to their insurer that their vehicle has been modified.
Roy Pattison Tadcaster Road Dringhouses York___
Give peace a chance in a troubled world
Today’s headlines, either local or national, lift the lid of our fragile planet.
I observe a world full of turmoil, divided within itself.
We live in an environment of singing for your supper to save yourself from a poverty future.
Selfishness and apathetic behaviour has created that. We’re plummeted into a jungle of kill or be killed mentality.
We need the clear vision of John Lennon with his song of giving peace a chance.
Why is that so difficult to realise?
Let’s embolden this fragile world to be at one with itself; a thorny uphill path.
No hell below but an upward heavenly vision at one with the stars; our future.
Phil Shepherdson Woodthorpe York
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Could capital punishment solve prison crisis?
One sure way to solve this problem is to bring back capital punishment.
Bring it back retrospectively.
I’m pretty sure that would free up quite a good few thousand places.
People who deserved to forfeit their lives to pay for their crimes against humanity.
Mick Horsman Moorland road YorkWhat do you think?
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