Two stories here about
Council abuse and Big Brother wasting your tax money, both from the South Wales
Argus.
Apparently there
is not enough money to run a weekly collection services, but there is enough
money to do this !! The lunatics are
definitely running the asylum!!
residents' rubbish to see if they are recycling properly.
A two-week study
was carried out by an unnamed firm on household waste and waste delivered to
the city's civic amenity site.
Opposition
councillors blasted the council for using 'Big Brother' tactics to 'spy' on
residents, but the council said it was an important study to help their waste
policy.
It was carried
out by a specialist research and consultancy company, which
reasons.
The firm carried
out the 'compositional analysis' on 200 domestic bin-loads of rubbish from five
areas of
Assembly grant.
Conservative
councillor David Fouweather said doing this without telling residents amounted
to spying and said
A
dumped after council workers looked through her rubbish.
Tracey Costello,
36, of
city's civic amenity site on
found an envelope with her name on it and her parents'
The letter told
her not to dump Torfaen rubbish in
She said: “I
get packages sent to my parents because I work during the day.
“I find it
worrying that people are sifting through our rubbish to find
rule-breakers.”
A council
spokesman said the items were identified during a regular audit and added: “We're
sure no one in
originating from outside council boundaries.”
