I Guess It Must Have Seemed A Good Idea At The Time,

but in a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing,

it all went horribly wrong, a £7.1million scheme was funded by central government to try and boost the amount of waste recycled in Bournemouth started out well enough, food caddies were clipped into residents’ ‘little bins,’ as advised by Bournemouth council, and in the food caddies residents were told to place their food scraps for recycling, all well and good, but guess who the council forgot to tell about the scheme?


yes you guessed it, the councils own workers who happily went out on their rounds remove the caddies but simply emptied the ‘little bins’ into the truck – food caddies and all, Bournemouth council said yesterday it had received reports of 108 containers going missing, I wonder how many citizens did not know or report the loss of a caddy? but it appears it is only a tiny proportion of the 62,000 households included in the scheme, each caddy costs £5 and the council has been sending replacements to affected residents, it is also attempting to recover any discarded caddies from the landfill site at Canford Magna, 


I am still not sure what the council is going to do with the waste food collected, many years ago every school had a 'pig bin' that all leftover school dinners were kept in and feed to pigs, but that piece of useful recycling was banned a few years ago, but strangely enough there is a move to reintroduce the practise.