• YET another survey by Camden on recycling, waste and street cleaning, (Take part in our survey on recycling, waste, and street cleaning in the borough, August 31).

Our cabinet member for “sustainability” should take note of the recent CPRE, the countryside charity, recycling score card for London boroughs.

It is no surprise to me that Camden has a very poor score for dry recycling and composting, sitting near the bottom of the table at 26 out of 33.

When living in a house in NW5, my black wheelie bin was for general waste, my green bin for mixed dry recycling and my green caddy for food waste.

Now my experience as a leaseholder on a Camden estate is very different, as these estates are dealt with by Veolia’s “business” waste collection with different rules.

In our bin store the large black bins are for “green” dry recycling while the green bins are for general waste going to landfill or for burning. Is it any wonder that so many of the collections from Camden estates are contaminated?

I gave up asking the senior Camden officer to swap the colours over and change the labels when his feeble justification was that Camden Council’s livery was green. So what!

I suggest that Cllr Harrison visit the large bin stores of Camden’s own estates to “lift the lid” on the problem and judge for himself how many black bin bags are mistakenly placed in the black bins.

He can also count the number of Camden estates with no kitchen caddy food waste recycling facilities. I had to fight very hard to retain ours on the Chester Balmore estate and I understand the Whittington estate (with over 1,000 residents) had their main food waste bins removed).

I hope that his next letter to the CNJ can provide a response to my concerns along with some more encouraging news and accurate data.

C WELLS, N19