Tuesday Waste Collection

There was a time when we used to drive, at least some of us, to the bring in sites to dispose of some parts of our waste in the appropriate containers hoping that these will be recycled accordingly. It was already a good idea, although I think that waste should be tackled at source. We should rather focus not purchasing products with excessive packaging, and re-use some of them when we do our shopping, like in former times. Since a few weeks, the Tuesday Waste Collection madness has hit the island. The waste which, as said, some of us use to separate and bring to the bring in sites, is now put in this nice yellow bags (more plastic again), un-separated. We still need to dispose ourselves of the glass. All these nicely yellow bags are collected once a week and sent to Wasteserv, where these are manually separated by poor unlucky workers. As on the photo shown in The Times of Monday 21st June on page 2, the workers lack of the basic health protections (no masks for example), being exposed to germs and bacteria! These poor people should be replaced by machines! I would also be great if we could get some information and figures: where is the waste exported to? Is it really recycled or just dumped in some third world country?