96% oppose Labours Green Bin Tax

Completed petition forms are pouring in as York residents give the thumbs down to Labours plans to charge residents an extra £30 a year to empty green waste bins.

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The response is one of the highest ever recorded in the City. National politicians are also now backing the campaign (see Press story)

It comes as the Council concludes its own “consultation”. It can be found by clicking here

There has been little pre publicity for the Council survey and it is very difficult to find on the Councils web site.

They are requiring residents to complete an electronic survey. The questions though are loaded, presuming as they do that economies have to be made in waste collection rather than other areas of Council expenditure.

Labour is currently spending £600,000 on the introduction of a city-wide 20 mph speed limit and two of its officials are on a £25,000 marketing jaunt to Cannes.

A petition against the Green Bin Tax can be found on the Councils web site by clicking here.

So far 139 residents have used this method to register their opposition. The petition closes on 3rd April.

The Liberal Democrat petition form can be found by clicking here

Residents responding to a Focus survey mainly carried out in the Westfield Ward have also come out strongly against the Labour plan.

96% are opposed to charging for green bin emptying.

96% also want to see the Beckfield Lane recycling centre reopened while 69% say they were inconvenienced by the lack of a New Years Day refuse collection

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