Just recently it was brought to residents’ attention that red bins – used for domestic waste – weighing more than 75 kilograms could not be picked up by the garbage trucks.
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This problem could be solved if the council introduced a green waste bin service, as I am sure the reason the domestic bin was weighing too much was that residents were filling them with green waste.
It has also been shown that when the red bin is full of green waste that residents are then putting their domestic waste into the yellow bin and thereby contaminating the recyclables.
The green waste service only needs to be operating during the spring, summer and autumn months.
This service could be fortnightly and would occur on the alternate week to the recycling service.
I am sure the council will once again state that this service it is too expensive but the words council and service should be synonymous.
There are very few councils that do not offer this service to their residents, especially to an ageing population.
Anne Cummins, Crookwell
Take action in Emergency Preparedness Week
For many of us it’s unthinkable – until it happens, and then it’s too late.
We all face emergencies: as large as a bushfire or as personal as a medical crisis.
They can all be devastating, as so many people found out last year in the flooding across much of northern NSW in the aftermath of severe Cyclone Debbie.
In Emergency Preparedness Week (September 17-24), Red Cross is asking you to take one easy action to make your next emergency less stressful.
These are simple and practical steps you can take to protect the people you love, your own wellbeing and the things you value most.
Easy things to help you prepare include:
Think about being in an emergency situation and how you might react.
This will help you stay calmer and respond better when an emergency happens.
Find out where to get important disaster information, like your local radio emergency broadcaster.
This means you’re better informed when an emergency happens.
Get to know your neighbours.
They’re the people who might support you and look out for you when an emergency happens.
For more easy things to do, get your Red Cross RediPlan at redcross.org.au/prepare.
Di Bernardi, Manager Emergency Services, Red Cross NSW
The world will continue to be what it has ever been
There is an appalling arrogance in the assertion that man can change objective reality at the instance of the ideologically committed by majority vote.
We might as well vote to alter the phases of the moon, or to provide that henceforth magpies shall refrain from swooping in August and September.
When, in the years to come, government has collapsed and with it the raft of mindless legislation visited upon us, marriage will remain what it has ever been, the permanent commitment of a man and a woman to each other for the procreation and education of children, the phases of the moon will remain what they have ever been and magpies will continue their swooping in August and September.
Michael Baker, Goulburn
