SIR - In a recent letter, New Labour waste management spokesman Councillor Paul Denham - who also opposed the return of the skips - claimed that Worcester City Council chose to ignore advice from the government agency WRAP on weekly waste food collection.
WRAP, however, is not a government agency, but a not-for-profit company in the private sector. Also, the weekly waste food collections were to be invited trials only and the WRAP funding ended on March 31, perhaps before the fly and maggot season?
The trials are experiencing high costs in handling weekly food waste in both new vehicles, the bins, and special corn or potato starch liners that the householders are to purchase. So before we go down the road of the New Labour election main issue for returning to collecting pig-swill days, I have to ask whether Joy Squires whose election letter delivered on March 17 said: "I promise that if elected you will get that weekly food waste collection", would also resign if she failed to get this scheme operating - a scheme that could be very costly to Worcester council taxpayers.
BRIAN HUNT, Worcester.
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