Reprieve hope for south Shropshire food waste collections?
Thursday 7th October 2010, 1:43PM BST.
Environmental campaigners are looking at ways of bringing back weekly food waste collections axed in three south Shropshire towns as part of cost-cutting measures.
Weekly collections were introduced in Ludlow, Craven Arms and Church Stretton as a pioneering pilot project backed by the government three years ago.
But earlier this year Shropshire Council announced it was scrapping the scheme in a bid to save more than £200,000. Food waste is now collected fortnightly.
Now members of Ludlow 21 and Cittaslow Ludlow have arranged a public meeting on Monday to discuss ways of bringing back weekly collections.
This would include making use of the town’s biodigester in Coder Road.
It takes place at Ludlow Assembly Rooms from 8.15pm and residents from all three towns have been urged to attend.
David Currant, chairman of Ludlow 21, said: “People are upset that we are losing something that was seen as an example of how to do things – from the perspective of the cost and the environmental impact it was ideal.”
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Well done to the organisers of this public meeting.
It did seem a very strange decision for Shropshire Council to be cutting such a pioneering, popular and sustainable initiative.
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But as a council tax payer in Shrewsbury why should I be paying for South SHropshire residents to be recieving this service when we don’t get one?
If they can’t roll it out to the rest of the county then I agree with it being scrapped, no matter how much the people of south shropshire are put out by that
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BRAVO TO THIS MAN
These 3 area’s (and not even the whole of south shropshire) didn’t use to have this service, so what’s the big problem with changing the system?
You want it back? fine, then those areas can pay even more council tax to cover the costs. And I bet that won’t agree with them.
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yes but it should be up the highest standard not all dropping to the lowest level, i agree with your point about subsididissing residents in south shropshire but it should be for ALL residents in shropshire, its a popular and succesfful service, there are loads of other things the council does which is completely pointless yet they axe the good things, they are idiots, this will end up costing them more moeny in landfill tax than they save
they thick as two planks the lot of them
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If it is saving the council 200k by stopping it then i would imagine that it would cost a fortune to roll it out county wide. In fact it was a government grant that set it up and funded it in the first place and not the council.
I agree that it should be rolled out county wide but we need to be realistic about money and perhaps now is not the time. And the food waste is composted anyway so its not exactlty going to landfill.
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why were they ever cut in the first place, this council is so out of touch, cut the men in suits in shire hall, not the bin men who do a proper job i am appauled a conservative council is collecting food fortnightly, in the summer there will be maggots you mark my words
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WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH!! LOL
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Food waste…Rubbish…? Oh, I see what you did there. Very good.
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This was a first rate scheme which I often quoted to my friends.it was I think praised on the tele. The bags were smell proof, the bins were tamper proof, and nothing was left for the maggots and the rats,do we have to regress..and leave the means of processing this waste to rot….I am as a newish comer to south shropshire SAY bring back the BLUE BINS mine is waiting
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