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MILNROW AND NEWHEY: Michael Butler (Con)
18/ 4/2008
I AM asking the voters in Milnrow and Newhey to vote for me on 1st May because if elected I will do my best to convince Councillors of all parties to agree to bring back weekly collection of food waste.
Rochdale Council is using a government report to justify the safety of the alternate weekly collection. The report referred to is the Wycombe Report. I have read this report and it fails to convince me that no health risks are associated with leaving food to rot for two weeks close to peoples homes.
This report was not based on actual tests unlike the report conducted by the SITA Centre at the University of Northampton. They found that the level of bacteria increased over each two week cycle, as did the incubation of flies, a known carrier of disease.
Last year the summer months were unusually cool so the problem with flies and odours was not such a problem, but this will not always be the case and the Council should expect that a hot summer will bring back the problems that you had in Milnrow and Newhey the year before.
A recent group of all party MPs looking at the problem recognised that alternate weekly collection was not appropriate in some urban areas and that more research into potential health risks was needed.
I believe that alternate weekly collection are not appropriate for Rochdale and should be scrapped before people's health is put at risk.
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