Dear Editor,
How many of us are putting our food waste into the green waste bins?
How much of our food waste is making its way to the new composter facility at Leighton?
How much are we having to transfer in from neighbouring boroughs to ensure the composter is efficient and financially viable?
What is the impact of this traffic movement on our roads and on our carbon footprint?
How will closing household waste facilities impact on increased traffic movement and that scourge of our time, fly tipping?
These are just some of the questions I’ve been mulling over since reading the most recent of the many consultation documents currently on offer to residents on the Cheshire East website.
The pre -budget consultation is light on detail but that, apparently can be negated by aspiration.
Otherwise known as a wing and prayer.
For example, the document offers up a potential saving from ANSA, (the council’s arms- length waste management company) of £259.000.
Is this achievable when you consider the thousands of new homes built in the borough which will require servicing?
I am concerned that perhaps this isn’t an efficiency saving but the profit on charges made for accepting waste from our neighbours.
I don’t have the answers but ask that you read the document and make your opinions known.
Yours,
Cllr Mrs E Wardlaw
Odd Rode Ward
Cheshire East Council
I have wondered how much food waste is being recycled. I look at the garden/food waste bins put out on my roadway on collection date and there are very few compared to the silver bins
That is because we have all realised that left overs can become another meal rather than wasting stuff.
And any food purchased can go directly into the freezer and brought out and cooked fresh without it being forgotten about in the fridge.
In other words we have had to grow up!!