Has a guard been fitted?

Putting the arguments for and against to one side for a moment let's look at a more logical, ecological solution.

Instead of the council and planners allowing themselves to get into the never ending quagmire of allowing builders to build on what they term as brownfields and some greenfields sites, mostly apartments that local people cannot afford, they should encourage companies to grow their own produce on those sites as long as they support organic production and only use recyclable materials for packaging for instance glass, paper etc. Or is it a fact that to balance the books WBC needs lots more taxpayers to come to Warrington?

It is better to tackle the problem at source, then in the future we should not need non-recyclable wheelie bins.

Councillor Axell said in the Guardian (July 20) in a reply to criticism of the policy to stop emptying bins, that a refuse collector received a nasty gash to the face from falling rubbish. My sincere sympathy goes to the collector, but according to health and safety guidelines there should have been a guard there to protect the collector. In the event of there not being a guard, the collector should be issued with a safety visor until a guard has been fitted. Has a guard been fitted to all the bin wagons in Warrington? Have the staff been issued with safety visors, or is it too costly? Did a new risk assessment take place after the accident? What were the findings?

You cannot hide under the cloak of health and safety or ecolology as an excuse to make people shut their bin lids.

Derek Shaw Appleton