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Fly-tipping keeps rising• KEITH Sharp’s letter is a welcome addition to the debate about our community waste and how we choose to deal with it (Skips were just rubbish, November 6). But the Lib Dems’ parliamentary candidate for 2001 was being disingenuous in suggesting our original letter (Bring back the skips, October 30) was ill-informed.
Statistics from the Environmental Agency’s recent report show that fly-tipping has doubled in the last three years since the skips were discontinued.
Moreover, if the current personalised service is as good as he says, why are there piles of fly-tipped waste on our streets?
The reason that we raised the issue in the first place is that residents see that the current policy is not working.
The challenge for a borough like Islington is how to help residents keep their neighbourhoods clean while also meeting our obligation to recycle.
If the will is there, it can be done – and, unlike Keith Sharp’s Lib Dems, Labour’s team in St George’s have that will.
He was wrong to say “there is no charge for collection – another error in Labour’s letter”. We had never suggested there was.
Regarding Mr Sharp’s statement that we should not use public money to subsidise business, I welcome his party’s
U-turn.
The Lib Dems have been spending thousands of pounds on glossy PR exercises and thousands more on needless “Islington Council” paving stones to promote its work.
Perhaps if they spent more time thinking about the quality of their policies, and less time and money promoting them, we would have a service that deals with the increasingly problematic issue of community waste.
Alex Smith, Gary Heather and Jessica Asato
Labour’s council candidates for St George’s ward |
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