Vic, Concerning the new recycling schedule and pollution. There seem, now, to be 8 lorry trips per month per household to collect four separate sets of recyclable and non-recyclable material. When all rubbish went into one bin there were 4 lorry trips per month per household. Therefore, CO2 emissions have doubled and diesel particulates in the atmosphere have also doubled following the new protocol of recycling. Then, also, there must be further lorry journeys to the recycling plants (i.e. yet more CO2 and diesel particulates) and then the extra energy consumed by the recycling process itself, requiring,er......yet more electricity generation ( with the attendant output of more CO2) and/or more use of oil, or gas to, then, operate the recycling plants. Lastly, we have many householders driving extra journeys to car park based glass, bottle and paper bins where on top of those private motorists' journeys yet more lorries arrive to collect that refuse too. Can anyone help alleviate my concerns about all the extra pollution and the additiional energy consumption by giving a genuine, mathematically correct, equation of the net gains and reductions in CO2 following on from the new protocol of enoforced recycling compared to the old system please? A note of the exact additional cost charged by the recycling companies to the Borough Council would not go amiss either. "Name and address witheld"