Perhaps not for the first time, a letter about the chaos at the Spalding Recycling Centre.
For the second Friday in succession the queue of traffic was back to the Wardentree Lane roundabout, thus allowing me a significant amount of time to consider how better I could recycle my waste (a solid bag of cement that SHDC collectors had probably rightly not taken with my general rubbish, and three bags of garden waste).
Here are my thoughts.
Fly tipping (just joking).
Get the LCC Highways Department to widen the road at great cost (just joking again!).
The tip has two lanes, but we are now allowed to only use one, thus reducing the throughput of vehicles by up to 50 per cent. This might be due to “health and safety reasons” (sigh) but en-route to the tip, having visited the supermarket where cars and pedestrians seem to co-exist without major incident, this cannot be the case.
Could staff help speed up unloading? I acknowledge that a large sign says that due to COVID restrictions they are not allowed to touch our waste, but again thinking back to my supermarket visit, the checkout assistant was allowed to touch every item that I plan to eat!
During the summer, open the tip seven days a week (like they used too). Fund this by reducing the number of staff on the other days. In total the volume of waste will be no higher, just happier ratepayers.
I have sent a copy of this email the LCC Environmental Department, and whilst they consider it, they could also take in to account the pollution emitted by all the queuing cars.
That’s it, it’s off my chest now!
Roger Goodliff
via email
