Let’s keep recycling free and weekly  

From April 2012, Ealing's Labour Council intends to charge residents £40 a year to have our garden waste collected. The frequency of this collection will also be reduced to fortnightly. In addition to these changes, the white sacks currently used for plastic recycling, will also be withdrawn and plastic will be collected in green boxes with a "hair net" cover. Also written into the new contract is the option to reduce collection of both waste and recycling to fortnightly. Angie is supporting her local Ealing Conservative colleagues, who do not believe that these changes will benefit residents and will lead to increased fly tipping and our recycling rates going down, thereby increasing landfill. Under the previous Conservative Council, when the decision was taken to stop charging to recycle garden waste, our recycling rate more than doubled, thereby confirming that most people will...