Sharon Curry, Bangalow
I have been taking full responsibility for my own household waste for the past 36 years. I have been able to reduce my waste to landfill considerably.
Recently I received a letter from Council stating it is now compulsory for me to pay and use their 140-litre bins fortnightly.
From August 2018 I am now forced to pay Council triple the cost I previously was paying for my recycling and rubbish including my trips to the Council waste depot.
There is no way my household of three in a rural residential area needs a 140-litre bin for rubbish every two weeks. This encourages me, and I am sure others, to place items that could be recycled into a 140-litre rubbish bin.
Where is the incentive from Council for householders like me who are conscious of reducing their waste? Instead I am forced to pay for a service I do not need and continue to tolerate the weekly to and fro from the garbage truck that rushes by my door creating noise and dust on an already narrow, degraded road surface.
