[Margaret Pilkington]

I think you are right Neil.
We have been recycling for as long as I can remember. We rarely throw food away(I recycle leftovers and they turn up in some other guise).
Our free bin capacity is offered to families(with a few children) who live near us and find their bin is not big enough to take all their refuse...but we insist that nothing that is suitable for recycling is put into our bin...and we check before the bin goes to the collection point.

I'm sure that those families who have babies still in nappies will find it difficult to cope with bin collections that might be four weeks apart ( due to the industrial action)...and in this warm weather the bins are going to get very smelly and attract bluebottles.