Marc's Musings and Random Rants » Rochford

Keen to be green

Marc — Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:54:23 +0000

The County Council are running a quite effective "Tins ain't looking good" recycling campaign at the moment, so I thought it was time to do my bi-monthly (or longer) clearout. Although finding newspapers from last October with the ex-Tory leader on the front page was amusing, what was not was the non-availability of cardboard recycling facilities in the Borough. This is fine for the 18% of homeowners living in the correct area for collection, but us flat tenants outside the catchment zone who have to trek a few miles to dump our recycling end up throwing out whatever can't be taken with the rest of the household waste. Surely this defeats the whole point (never mind the Carbon Monoxide released by the car driving to and from the recycling 'Minibank')?

I've been driving in my car

Marc — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 19:14:32 +0000

…it ain't quite a Jaguar. But it does the job, although in recent months I've been beginning to notice the increased number of idiots on the road. In a single round-trip today I was cut up by a woman going through a red traffic light, two cars at the same roundabout, a police car going the wrong way on a dual carriageway towards me; as well as being stuck behind vehicles doing 30 in a 60. Then when you get to the destination there's nowhere to park because of idiots hogging three spaces! That brings back memories of the poor state of the Lancaster University parking scheme…

On a related note, there was an untaxed car parked on the aforementioned route for about a month before a Police Aware sign appeared on it last week, just for it to be torched last night. Well played, Council.