SIR – Having lived at my present address in Shelf for just short of 40 years, I have paid regular visits to my nearest waste disposal site – which just so happens to be in Low Moor, a round trip of less than four miles.
I arrived at the site on Saturday with the usual assortment of garden and general rubbish, most of it for recycling, and was told at the entrance that since I could not produce a Resident’s Permit as a Bradford Council ratepayer (I pay my dues to Calderdale MBC), my rubbish was neither welcome, nor good enough.
The end result is that I must now drive to the nearest Calderdale Waste Disposal Site in Brighouse, a round trip of not four miles, but ten – two and half times the distance, burning two and half times the fuel and pumping two and a half times the carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Will the genius who came up with this new interpretation of a greener world care to explain him (or her) self since my recycling is clearly no longer welcome in Bradford?
Phil Lyon, Greenacres Grove, Shelf
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