Clarity

Well, it's not an auspicious beginning. The Humes Hooosehold have been recycling religiously for quite some time now, washing and taking aluminium tins, steel tins, plastics, paper, glass and cardboard to their respective recycling points on the way to and from work. It's been organised, efficient, and has worked very well.

I was pleased and excited when Waverley Borough Council delivered a couple of boxes to my door and announced that as well as collecting paper and glass, they would now collect tins and plastic as well! They urged me to read the leaflet, understand what I could and couldn't leave out for them to collect, and then to leave my correctly-filled boxes outside my front door at the appointed time, twice monthly.

So dutifully we collected and washed and boxed, and got up early this morning to make sure the boxes were put out and not forgotten. I took the cardboard and put it in the car to be taken to the recycling bank on the way home.

I came home nice and early this evening, and expected to find my boxes, empty, at my door waiting to be taken in. However, I found a muddy, broken paper box with the bottom broken out, and another paper box full of someone else's tin and plastic waste!!!! Disgusting!

I went in and called the Environmental Services and left my details on their answerphone. I'm going to insist on this box of waste I don't own being taken away - it's not coming into my house. I will also insist on being provided with new boxes..... and then I won't be using their collection service until they can collect competently.

Very, very poor show Waverley.