The Hot 100 Agents Of Change

is what they were billed as, the accompanying text read: ‘ever wanted to find out who’s got superhuman powers, who can see through walls of legislation, or has the strength to zap excess packaging into oblivion,' some even paid £700 a head just to be there, they had come to Liverpool from all over Britain, from the shires and the inner cities, from as far afield as Aberdeen, guests sipped champagne cocktails with their candlelit dinner and basked in the warm glow of self-congratulation, the black tie awards ­ceremony is the highlight of their year, the dinner is the culmination of an annual two-day conference organised by something called the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC), to you and me the people in your local council that decide how many bins you have to put out, now for the good news, to mark the occasion, it was revealed that a further 19 councils have scrapped weekly collections and another ten are actively considering following suit, now on to the awards, the nomination for the Most Diabolical Recycling Regime of 2010 goes to Bristol City Council, which has just distributed three more containers to go with the four already in existence, householders will now be expected to sort their rubbish into seven different categories,

‘this is a sterling effort by Bristol, which brings the city into line with a number of other local authorities across the country, who all insist on eight different containers,’

Gateshead was up for a gong for introducing a new range of blue bins, designed to encourage ‘behavioural change’.North London Waste Authority was nominated for publishing a Food Lovers’ Cookbook, containing recipes for left-overs, strongly fancied for next year’s Lonnie Donegan Memorial Award is East Renfrewshire, which has reduced its recycling collection service to just once a month,

as the writer of this article Richard Little John commented 'refuse collection is a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it, trying to pretend it is a glamorous ­occupation, worthy of a self-­aggrandising Oscar-style awards ceremony is simply preposterous,' not to mention total waste of rate payers money, when I read articles like this I am so glad I do not have to pay a local council for this type of nonsense.