Is it any wonder that residents tip their garden waste over the cliff edge?
My old council (Epping Forest District, Essex) collected garden waste in biodegradable bags and have done so for several years. Come on Rother – get up to date – our council tax his surely high enough to cope! (06/09/2004) A. Thank you for your question which allows me to bring our regular visitors to this section of the website up to date with recycling plans within Rother. As you have only just moved here you may not yet have had a chance to see previous answers that I have given or read various Committee reports relating to this subject over the last two years or so. In October 2003 we introduced the first phase of an ongoing programme to provide doorstep collection of recyclables, commencing with a limited collection of newspapers to 10,000 households at a cost of £66,000 for a second hand vehicle and ongoing revenue costs of £128,000. Phase 2 of this programme commenced in February of this year with another capital cost of £67,000 for a further vehicle and an additional £105,000 r