Which party cares about the environment?
No posts about local politics, she said. This isn’t a councillor-blog, she said.
But I have to post this. Which party would you think would it be that would cancel the fully-budgeted-for about-to-be-implemented plans to introduce doorstep plastic recycling in Oxford in October?
You have a choice. Is it:
a) Labour?
b) the Greens?
c) the Tories?
d) the IWCA?, or
e) the Liberal Democrats?
(BTW bad luck if you chose c) - we have no Tories on Oxford City Council.)
If you want to know the answer - click here.
The recycling mania remins me somewhat of the wartime drive to donate saucepans, iron railings and the like in order to build aircraft. It was all a feelgood exercise, and a huge pile of housewivs’ prized saucepans was just scrapped.
Some things are clearly worth recycling. The fact that companies will willingly pay money for scrap aluminium cans is a pretty good clue that that is worthwhile.
I’m not sufficiently familiar with the monetary and environmental economics of plastic recycling to know whether it is actually worthwhile to do door-to-door collection of plastics rather than just sending it all to the landfill.
Do you know of a good study?
How does call-in work in Oxford these days?
I want more councillor gossip! If this isn’t going to be a coucillor blog, maybe you should set one up?