{"id":635842,"date":"2025-12-16T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635842\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:28:13","slug":"is-wiltshire-councils-recycling-booking-system-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635842\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Wiltshire Council’s recycling booking system rubbish?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Among other changes to its waste service, Wiltshire Council<\/a> wants to make us book in advance to use our household recycling centre.\n<\/p>\n

\n Salisbury is one of four sites chosen for a trial run of this scheme, which the council believes will reduce queues and thus air pollution from frustrated motorists allowing their vehicles to belch out fumes over Churchfields while they wait.\n<\/p>\n

\n Except that it assumes we all plan our lives to the nth degree and know what we\u2019ll be doing during any particular 10-minute time slot, say a week next Sunday.\n<\/p>\n

\n Dunno about you, but if the weather\u2019s fine we might decide to pop down to the coast.\u00a0Or to blitz the Triffids in the garden and dispose of a bootload.\n<\/p>\n

\n Life\u2019s like that.\u00a0Who knows what it\u2019s going to bring in the next 24 hours, let alone seven days?\u00a0And who wants to store a small mountain of stuff once it\u2019s on its way out?\n<\/p>\n

\n Yes, a booking system operated during Covid, but we had nothing else to do back then.\n<\/p>\n

\n I\u2019m glad there are going to be separate food waste collections \u2013 that\u2019s long overdue.\u00a0But whether it\u2019ll make the switch to three-weekly black bin collections acceptable \u2013 imagine those sacks full of dirty nappies in hot weather \u2013 remains to be seen.\n<\/p>\n

\n I do suspect that fly-tipping \u2013 something Wiltshire has made great strides in tackling in recent months, with more than 60 fines issued \u2013 is likely to increase.\n<\/p>\n

\n Anything that makes responsible recycling harder is a mistake.\u00a0These changes are well-intentioned.\u00a0But I\u2019d like to be convinced that complicating the system will work.\u00a0I really hope it does.\n<\/p>\n

\n Which reminds me.\u00a0Do you recall an announcement back in 2018 that tip users would have to produce ID to prove we live locally?\u00a0What happened to that one?\n<\/p>\n

\n I can think of a much better idea to make it easier to use.\u00a0One that\u2019s been floating around for donkey\u2019s years.\n<\/p>\n

\n Move it.\u00a0Somewhere not at the bottom of a dead-end road.\u00a0Not in a potentially beautiful riverside location that could be put to so much better use.\n<\/p>\n

\n Our Neighbourhood Plan team drew up a strategy to gradually relocate some of the most polluting uses of the industrial estate and replace them with a mix of housing and small-scale workspaces more suited to this sensitive environment.\u00a0You can Google it if you like.\u00a0But Wiltshire Council<\/a> vetoed it.\n<\/p>\n

\n I wonder whether the current administration will eventually grasp that nettle?\n<\/p>\n

\n Happy Christmas!\n<\/p>\n

\n Cllr Annie Riddle (Harnham West)
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