READERS may have really believed some of the inaccuracies which were printed in the letters column about the increasing restrictions and charges relating to re-cycling and waste disposal.
Your reporter, John Hutchins, was able to dispel the nonsense which had been concocted by ill-informed letter writers . . . a seven-minute maximum to empty your waste was one such example.
This mis-information had an immediate effect on the amount of items being dropped off at the Crowndale re-cycle centre.
Readers may be fed up having to pay to dispose of DIY waste, but if you consider, the home improvements should actually increase the saleable value of your home, plus DCC has to find money to help the most vulnerable — consider services like adoption, fostering and people who are actually homeless.
Continue to recycle and continue to dispose of your waste at the centre. I must emphasise most items are still free of charge.
Cllr Debo Sellis
Tavistock Electoral Division
Devon County Council
IT was probably inevitable that the introduction of charges at our recycling depot would result in an increase in fly-tipping. This is what is happening at Harrowbeer Airfield.
The waste is of a type that would incur a charge at the recycling centre. It seems to be from something like a garden path and is mainly of some flaky material that is not soil.
We who keep a watchful eye on the airfield would dearly like to know the source of this rubbish.
Now, of course, it has to be removed. It would be nice to see that the disgusting person who dumped it be forced to remove it rather than the landowner or the Dartmoor National Park Authority (that means you and me paying for it).
Brian Salt
Chairman
RAF Harrowbeer Interest Group
Buckland Monachorum