Civic leaders’ fury over skips
Thursday 1st April 2010, 11:35AM BST.
Civic leaders have criticised Shirehall bosses after it was confirmed a community skip scheme in north and south Shropshire is to be scrapped.
The move will see an end to provision of skips in the former district council areas.
Now many people are facing longer journeys to their nearest household recycling centres.
Market Drayton Mayor Roy Aldcroft said today: “It’s a disappointing decision as nothing has been put in place to encourage recycling locally.
“It means people in the town now have a 26 mile round trip to Whitchurch recycling centre.
“The beauty of the skips was that people without their own transport could get rid of large items of rubbish safely without resorting to dumping things .”
The move is also set to affect residents in south Shropshire, many of whom will have to travel to Craven Arms to dispose of bigger items of waste.
Councillor Keith Pinches, Mayor of Bishop’s Castle, said: “It’s going to encourage fly-tipping definitely. They make out they’re going to save money, it’s going to cost a far sight more to collect up the rubbish.”
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Sorry..just run this by me again…that’s how many hundreds of thousands of pounds to clear the fly-tipping up? That’ll be the tipping caused by the meagre ‘saving’.
Lions led by donkeys aren’t we?
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Penny pinching. Presumably so they’ve got more money to hand out to the senior ‘directors’ at Shirehall, who are absolutely *raking* the cash in, from what other reports in the Star tell us…..!
As for what the public think – the people who actually pay these obscenely overblown salaries – well, they don’t really count do they?
They were always going to axe this scheme – no matter what anyone thought.
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