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Thursday, September 20 2007 09:52:34 by Leigh Jackson
Leigh Jackson writes: Christchurch council is under-fire after environmentalists vented their fury at the decision to put garden waste into landfill sites.
The decision to throw away the waste has come as a shock, especially because residents are sold special green bags by the council to store the refuse, the Bournemouth Daily Echo reports.
The council charge £25 a year for the collection of the waste but it ends up in the same place as household rubbish.
"I cannot understand why on earth people are having to pay for green bags to go in a landfill site," Professor Victor May, of Bournemouth University told the publication.
And John Walker of chairman of Friends of the Earth in the New Forest, added: "All green waste should be recycled. New Forest district council composts the garden waste it collects from the green bags it has provided me with."
Meanwhile, allotment tenants in Corby are fighting to hold onto their plots amidst claims that the land will be sold off as part of re-development plans for the area.
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