Pendle Today | Readers' letters | New food waste bins could cost 'hundreds of millions' as Government bids to 'save the planet'
By April, every household in Pendle will have another wheelie bin added to its motley collection.
This will bring the number to four, or five, if you have a garden waste bin. Those living in properties whose backyards are already full to bursting will struggle to accommodate the new arrival, so it could end up in the back street.
Heaven help any fire engine or ambulance if its way is blocked by these bins. However, please do not blame the council for like you, they have no choice but to participate in the government’s latest ‘Save the Planet’ scheme. The new bins are for collecting waste food, and will cost tens, maybe even hundreds of millions of pounds.
I hope this money will benefit UK companies and not swell the coffers of those on distant shores. Call me cynical, but if this sort of thing continues, I can see that after covering our countryside with wind turbines and solar panels, what little space that is left will be filled with plastic wheelie bins.