My principal take on the so-called waste “recycle errors” (The Border Mail, April 12) is that the glaring gap in the percentage of recyclables collected in the Border cities is stark evidence of systemic failure on the part of the Albury council’s waste management team.
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Albury’s rate of collection is a little more than 50 per cent of that in Wodonga.
The Albury response, however, offers only punitive measures and the simplistic idea that a larger bin would contribute to the solution.
Even larger families can accommodate the present provision if a little time is taken for the present (large) recycle bins to be more tightly packed.
Clearly, the irregular education campaigns have failed.
On the matter of contamination, it is rather hypocritical of the Albury council to be heaping blame on citizens when it has embedded contamination into its public waste-collection practices.
Hundreds of tons of recyclables in our city are annually dumped into general waste for wont of not providing dedicated recycling bins in the city centre and environs, parks and sports grounds.
The few that do exist are poorly signed.
— BILL TRAILL,
South Albury