Bracknell

The Midweek is backing the Bracknell BIN It! campaign of our sister paper, the Bracknell News, to over-turn Bracknell Forest Council's decision to axe traditional weekly collections of domestic rubbish.

Bracknell borough council plans to only collect your refuse on alternate weeks - the week in between will be used for collections of recyclable materials.

Bracknell Councillors claim that unless more refuse is recycled and less is dumped in landfill sites they will be "fined" by the Government - and council taxes will rise.

What they don't say is that across the country where ABC - Alternate Bin

Collections - has been introduced, there has been public outrage.In many towns it has proved a costly disaster.

One of the pioneering "green" boroughs in London - Sutton - simply dumped it because the system was so unpopular.

There is not a scrap of evidence to suggest it will be any more successful in Bracknell Forest.

Indeed, already it has met with an overwhelming tide of opposition among residents - the very people who pay the council tax bills and will soon have overflowing bins of rotting and smelly refuse on their doorsteps.

Bin It! is your opportunity to tell the council that ABC must be immediately dropped and not introduced.

The real answer to getting more waste recycled is not to collect it less often.

It needs to be collected as often as possible.

Instead of axing part of its service, Bracknell council should make an additional collection - remove general domestic refuse once a week AND collect recyclable materials.

If you feel strongly about retaining this vital service, join our campaign.

Don't leave it to someone else - make sure YOUR name is on our petition.

Even better, get your family, friends, neighbours, workmates and everyone else you know to sign up.

There is still time to halt the council's proposals and keep the weekly collection of YOUR bins.

With your support, together we can Bin It!

To sign the online petition click here

To vote online, click here

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