Waste industry responded fiercely at monthly collection plans

The waste industry’s bodies have hit back to claims made in the UK’s Sunday newspapers that the garbage collection services will be reduced to just once monthly.

News articles in the Daily Express and Sunday Telegraph expressed that a single monthly garbage collection was “inevitable” and could start in the next three years.

The articles quoted P. Ward, the Resources Action Programme’s managing director, as stating that: “Monthly collections already take place in Germany and I’m convinced that in some of Britain’s areas we will see this happen as well.”

However WRAP explained that the Sunday Telegraph’s stories are “neither WRAP’s nor P. Ward’s”.

The government agency said: “The Sunday Telegraph’s article is incorrect and does not reflect P. Ward’s personal view as well as WRAP’s plans.

The CIWM also responded to the false claims and explained that: “The Chartered Institute of Wastes Management does not have information on any local governments anywhere in Great Britain who are planning to reduce garbage collections to once monthly collections and the CIWM doesn’t consider such a plan as well.

“Any suggestion that due this taking place in Germany it will be launched in Britain has no basis in fact.”