LAUNCHED with a fanfare, a nice glossy brochure describing the new recycling procedures fails to live 'up to the blurb'.
Some plastics are taken, but not, seemingly, some coloured bottles.
Stiff card as used in the packaging of detergents has to go in the original recycling box but thicker examples are to be put in the composting bag, apparently!
Failure to comply means that they are discarded and one has to take that as well to Exeter Road where staff are only too pleased to help.
It is suspected that many, though, will not bother and merely put it all in the 'black bag' with the result that recycling targets get missed and the pertinent 'land-fill' penalties imposed from the European Union will be invoked.
Speaking to West Devon Borough Council on the telephone I said that textiles and small batteries are now collected but facilities already exist in our local supermarkets and have been for some time now so it is a pointless duplication.
It is butter pots, salad and mushroom containers and other similar plastics that should be taken and the excuse that they cannot be got rid of is pretty pitiful and vary difficult to comprehend.
Come on West Devon Borough Council and FOSCA, get a grip and offer a proper disposal service, otherwise in time the beautiful countryside will be despoiled by a substantial 'fly-tipping element'.
Derek Godfrey-Brown
Larkbeare
Okehampton