Litter and Rubbish collections by the Vale Council

The Gem published our sarcastic letter slightly amended under the title

 Stop windblown rubbish by buying a £1 net covering (17 Nov.) 

G A Walters (Gem letters 3^rd Nov.) seems unaware of the Vale Council's measures over recycling plastics being blown around the street. We, the people, are to blame – we fail to net over the green bins. 

Take a trip to the Alps depot near Wenvoe and buy a net for £1.00. Few have taken up this offer – so cannot the officers blame lazy Vale of Glamorgan folk for their poor performance in recycling? 

Likewise, the general waste thrown in with recycling stuff by the Council waste collectors, as a second correpondent (3 Nov.) saw. Again householders are blamed for not clearly bagging and separating. Did it lead to rejection of recycling loads and sending the lot to landfill, as Walters writes? 

Is there not a problem at the top, with the Vale's waste officers writing** they've long believed in co-mingled collections, so gave up on making a success of separated collection? Isn't this why the recycling/composting rate dropped to 38%, compared with Bridgend's 52%?

**  see Cabinet report, 6th July,  s.8