As if by magic, a letter arrived with answers to all my composting questions. I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had received warning from the council that I might be in a food waste recycling area. Nothing was definite about it. It hadn’t seemed to occur to the form-shoveller pursuivants that they might be the only people who knew the answer. Despite having invented the rules, they seemed determined to persist with the notion that they could not be held responsible for knowing whether they were applying them to my street or not.
I tried ringing the council’s recycling line but it was permanently busy. Apparently they are suffering an unusually high level of calls since putting leaflets through thousands of people’s doors warning them they could soon be fined up to £1,000 for not doing something they may or may not have to do.
So I wrote about how confused I was.
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