| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The environmental backfire of the new recycling system | |
| Posted by: | Michael Brandt | |
| Date/Time: | 15/03/09 10:56:00 |
| I have to agree with most of what you say, Philippa. People can be fairly resourceful and ingenious and most will find a way that suits. The more space you have the easier it is. It's a real problem for those with no space, kids, bikes and so on. Our home has a constant battle for where to put bicycles and the green box and muddy boots. And preventing it all being nicked or thrown about by yobs. I really miss the milkman (fnarr fnarr!!) Seriously the fact that for over 100 years a horse and then an electric float was the principle way of delivering milk to urban districts was superior. It was this sort of practical ingenuity that made this country the envy of the rest of the world. How we have fallen that now, we cannot even get a recycling collection service right. No wonder the europeans call us the third world British. It's something I hear more and more on the continent and when challenged the facts that they follow the statement with are hard to argue with. Very,very disheartening. Express, Job's, Co-Op & United Dairies latterly Unigate and Dairy Crest had a huge network and infrastructure which has been sold off and now cannot be reinstated. The supermarkets deliberately decimated the milk delivery system by selling milk as a loss leader and changed the way we buy it. I am guilty. I now buy Cravendale milk as it keeps longer and often I'm away which would leave milk on the doorstep. Our work/lifestyle had played a part in the demise as well. But there is so much more that used to be done that is no longer. Why are they not using electric vehicles for non-compactable collections? or the parks maintenance, or light road maintenance? Only the city of London seem to do this and have done for decades. |