Council meeting on Tuesday night

A full agenda on Tuesday night saw some really important policies agreed at Council. The most significant was the Councils involvement with the Dorset Waste Partnership and the decision to move to a system using wheelie bins from April next year. This has had some bad press but having seen how the trial has worked in West Christchurch I am confident that the decision is right. Not just for the financial savings but also because it is a much cleaner sustainable system which contributes to all the things we should be doing to saving the planet. Sweeping statement?(pun!) Well lets look at at the massive savings this represents in the amount of waste we are dumping into land fill sites. Currently existing sites are producing emissions of gas pollutants adding to the continuing contamination of vast areas of our land mass. We are now seeing the effect on our flora and fauna of the stuff that was dumped years ago and whether you are a believer in global warming or not something is happening to our planet and we humans must take some responsibility for it. Just why we should think the dumping our waste to fester under ground and the effect on our children children of the resulting pollutants is the way to deal with this problem just so that we can retain a black bag system is frankly beyond me. On another note the stuff that is currently going under ground is or can be a valuable commodity in recycling terms and I am sure as we move into the new system our recycling rates will increase to over 60% and more. I am sure that we are doing the right and responsible thing and that all our communities should see that in adopting the system they are acting responsibly with the future environment in mind.