I have made a formal complaint about the Council’s continuing failure to collect my green waste. It has a double obligation in that respect, the contractual one with the householder and the underlying legal obligation to remove household waste, which according to the relevant EU directive includes green waste. We are paying twice for the service, once by council tax and again by the fee the Council charges. Of course, the Council is ignoring my formal complaint. Its complaints procedure is another “service” it fails to deliver. I see no hope of improvement if the Council takes over the collection of waste. I am sure Mr Raymond, the gentleman who contributed the remark on the likely underpayment of the men who actually do the work, is quite right. It is a phenomenon well-known in other spheres. But what we shall end up with when Ealing Council takes over are operatives better paid and performing worse, in the comfortable knowledge that Ealing Council will lie through its teeth before it will admit it could be doing anything wrong. The real garbage that needs to be disposed of in our borough is that at the top of the Council itself. Recycling or Landfill? Something more drastic, please. It’s toxic.
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