Waste Management Issues for Hull
October 2004
CRIPPLING LEGISLATION THREATENS WOW
With charges of conspiracy and or downright incompetence abound, fears that crippling legislation against small-scale biodegradable waste projects like Hull's WOW prompt an ever more vigorous campaign and a redoubling of efforts to challenge such stupidity.
"With WOW facing exorbitant licence fees, I understand that this is one of the usual Govt lunacies that will jigger up sensible green/ kitchen waste voluntary recycling schemes", comments Barry Robinson.
If you would like to add your voice to the call for common sense, why not use the sample letter below as a basis for your objections... and good luck. Your voice can make a difference. Use it!
Mr Elliot Morley MP
Minister for th Environment
House of Commons
London
SW1A OAA
Dear Mr Morley
Changes to the waste management licencing regulations
I write on behalf of ...........................................
Under current proporsal for amendments to the waste management licencing regulations, the small community projects on the allotments we are hoping to get started through partnership working with Kingston Council would be told to pay a fee out of all proportion to the scale of the ventures contemplated. We see no reason why we should pay pounds per tonne to run a community composting project, when a landfill site pays pence per tonne for a licence and anyone burning garden waste pays nothing. What is better for the environment; burying and burning or composting?
We will of course be raising our concerns with others in the local community.
I look forward to hearing from you on this mattter at your earliest convenience
Sir John Harman, Chairman, Environment Agency, Millbank Tower, 25th Floor, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4XL
