Garden waste can be so very tasty
Re: the report in the 'Cornish Times' on garden waste. Caradon Council states it has collected 50 tonnes less waste since it introduced a fee for collecting such waste. Where have those 50 tonnes gone?
I have conducted a survey and these are the results:
58 per cent of those interviewed say they now eat all garden waste; just one per cent eat it in a raw state, saying they are vegetarians, anyhow; five per cent say they cook theirs in various ways, and wonder if Caradon Council could publish a Garden Waste Cookbook; 38 per cent say they recycle the waste, making it resemble household waste which they then put into ordinary bin liners.
A rather sinister one per cent state that they have filled several envelopes with stinging nettles and addressed them to all the Caradon Councillors. The remaining three per cent make artefacts which they sell to Caradon Council, who, indeed, give them a grant for artistic merit.
Not one of those interviewed fly-tips any rubbish. 100 per cent say that, if the saving from the scheme were to bring new cellular phones for all council workers, they would be happy.
DEREK DOUE
Cornwall