Not having been given a survey about recycling in Castle Point to complete, nor knowing anyone who had, I looked at Castle Point Council’s website.

The way the survey was worded would in fact mean people would vote “strongly agree” with recycling, as it is the right thing to do. If they didn’t agree with recycling, they wouldn’t complete the survey.

Some 93.56 per cent indicated they would like food waste to be collected weekly.

I think that would indicate they would like all “dirty” collections weekly.

But now the rubbish is now known as “non-recyclable waste”, consumers would feel it was in the same bracket as pink sack collections, nice clean plastic bottles, paper and cardboard.

I presume the newspaper or liner has to be lifted out of the kitchen caddy after the waste has been collected, and removed to the paper collection, where it would have to wait for perhaps another week before collection in the pink sack.

How clean is it going to be after a week of peelings, leftovers and rotten fruit have been put in there?

Even if you did line your kitchen caddy with paper, it would still need washing out after, as would the wheelie bin or the external caddy.

Castle Point has an aging population, a lot of whom live in flats and apartments.

Not everyone can manage to clean a wheelie bin or external caddy.

Once again Castle Point Council proves that if you ask survey questions in a certain way, you end up with the response you want.

Nicola Smith
Oakfield Road
Benfleet