‘Food waste accounts for nearly 30 per cent of the rubbish people throw away’

• THE latest winter issue of Camden Council’s magazine tells us: “Food waste accounts for nearly 30 per cent of the rubbish people in Camden throw away.” The advice on page 10 is: “Recycle: turn your peelings into power.”

Unfortunately Camden Council and Veolia are no longer collecting kitchen waste from the large Whittington estate in Highgate Newtown, so it is all going into landfill. Who allowed this to happen and why?

Our council has declared a climate emergency: this is surely the right time to correct an anomaly within business waste collection, which expects council estate residents to put their recycling into large black wheelie bins and their landfill rubbish into large green wheelie bins which say: “Camden Business Recycling and waste Collection.”

Household street recycling bins are green and landfill waste bins are black, which makes sense. Is it any wonder that residents on estates are confused and that there is such a problem with contaminated recycling. The solution? Swap them over and say goodbye to confusion and contamination.

CATHARINE WELLS
Balmore Street, N19