Recycling timber
Sir,—Claims of a recycling programme being carried out at the Bexley tip will remain a farce until the public is allowed access to the wealth of demolition timber being dumped and bulldozed for landfill. This is a valuable and expensive fuel and one does not need to be a civil engineer to know that wood is useless for the purpose of roadbuilding: it rots. Last week I was ordered to off-load the wood I had collected, by an unsympathic council employee, who admitted no harm was done by removing it but that wood comes under the “no scavenging” order, though not actually at the refuse site. How does the City Council expect the public to support its recycling programme when it actively discourages and denies the same from any enthusiastic effort to recycle this valuable, expensive and rottenly mistreated resource?^—Yours, etc., R. ATKINSON. March 2, 1982.
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