Further developments of the 'Great Caradon Refuse Scam': it is known that, if garden refuse is left for collection in black plastic bags, it will not be accepted for loading onto the weekly dust-cart.
The alternative is to pay Caradon £5 for 10 white plastic bags. These bags, full of garden refuse, will be readily loaded onto the weekly dust-cart.
However, the white plastic bags containing garden refuse and the black bags containing domestic refuse are both loaded onto the same dustcart, taken to the disposal point and disposed of.
Why are we paying Caradon another £5 for the privilege of putting our garden refuse into white plastic bags, instead of black, when they may both go the same way?
Imagine my dilemma, (he who would never join the Caradon Scam), reluctantly having to purchase the magic white bags.
On returning home, a bag was extracted from the 10 I had purchased, ready to receive the hated garden waste. Alas, the bag was split in at least six places and could never hope to receive garden waste.
Here. it becomes quite ludicrous. For now, the garden refuse had to be put into black plastic bags and the black plastic bags then put inside the inferior white plastic bags.
The refuse collectors threw everything onto their dust-cart.
What is it about garden refuse in black plastic bags that so infuriates our District Council?
Was a councillor who once saw garden refuse protruding from a black plastic bag immediately physically sick and decide, in revenge, to pull the Caradon Scam?
If so, perhaps the instigator of this ridiculous situation would publish his/her name in this column, then I for one, would know never to vote again for such a misguided person.
Caradon now have the taxpayers of this area contributing approximately another £20 a year for the privilege of hiding our garden refuse in inferior, expensive and useless white plastic bags.
As if we don't pay enough in exorbitant Council taxes. Come on Caradon, you have been rumbled.
What does it matter what colour the plastic bags are? Just get rid of our rubbish. We pay quite enough for the privilege.
MR J WORBOYS
Liskeard