This is yet another case of the council’s heavy handed treatment of the ‘little guy’. We are being urged to recycle as much as possible but every time someone tries something different they fall foul of rules meant to control misuse by big business. The council should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

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RED TAPE AND BUREACRACY RUINING PEOPLES LIVES AND CAUSING UNEMPLOYMENT – THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR IN C21ST BRITAIN !!

CAN WOLVERHAMPTON AFFORD TO LOSE YET MORE JOBS LIKE THIS IN SUCH A CRASS AND OVER THE TOP MANNER ? IT IS ALREADY LOOKING LIKE A GHOST TOWN, TACKY AND LIFELESS !!!! NOT THE TOWN WHERE I WAS BORN AND BRED !!!!!!!!!!

TIM CLARK SOUNDS LIKE A BUREACRAT OFF THE SET OF A ST TRINIANS FILM -LOCAL WEDNESBURY BORN ACTOR RICHARD WATTIS WHO PLAYED THE CIVIL SERVANT TYPE IN THOSE FILMS, WOULD BE PROUD OF HIS EFFORTS !!

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We are all being brainwashed into saving the planet and yes obviously it has to be a good thing for everyone to live in a nice clean environment, we have to look after the planet for our children’s sake.

The ice caps are melting that’s a real fact, the seas are beginning to rise that’s another real fact, our seasons as we knew them have all changed another real fact, another real fact is that we can only be blamed for so much.

The motorist is hammered for more money at every opportunity, higher fuel charges every week, paying higher road tax if you have a more polluting car, but I am not convinced there is a real will by government and local councils to want to do anything realistic to save the planet, and this article is a perfect example of my reason why.

We are told constantly to recycle anything we can, well here is a group of people doing just that and what happens? they get penalized for doing exactly what our Government and Councils are constantly telling us to do, recycle.

This group of people who are doing an excellent job get landed with the problem of having to pay a massive bill that they cant afford, this then puts them out of business, the council then has the problem of handling all these household items that then ends up going into landfill, errrrrrrrrrrrrr excuse me, have I missed something here? Why should someone who wants us to recycle more want to penalize people when they do, and put them out of business? Perhaps the real truth is that its not about saving the planet at all but more to do with milking the people for more money at every opportunity, and making them feel guilty about polluting the planet help the Councils to justify another tax on the residents.

Millions of years ago there is evidence that the seas were much higher, an instance of this was that the middle part of Australia was just a vast sea, this is proved by the fossils found there that can only be from a sea bed, so whatever we do wont change a thing as global warming is concerned, it will happen, what will make things better is if we reduce landfill and only responsible councils have the answer to that problem, stop telling lies and assist these people instead of fining them for recycling.

Jim from the West Midlands

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Is it not in the councils best interest to have things like this?
Keeping the lanfill empty. It will cost the council more in the long run.

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Unbelievable – yet again Wolverhampton Council prove what a bunch of unpublic spirited bureaucrats they really are. We should be encouraging enterprises like this – not effectively shutting them down. It makes me embarrassed to be a citizen of Wolverhampton.

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Ray,

The only country in the whole of the EU who follows the rules is England everybody else ignores them.

We have cpouncillors whose only interest is to make life as difficult as possible for its citizens.

What harm has this company done, would the council prefer all the charity goods you leave in the bags on your doorstep be put on the tip rather than let others make use of them.

We have a PM on a worldwide farewell trip using your money tell me any other Prime Minister who has done this in English history.

Bliar tells us WE must follow the EU rules but he and his greedy cronies are exempt. We don’t have to follow the EU rules you have a voice use it. :))

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I wonder if we’re getting the whole story here? Surely the council should have given a ‘charitable organisation’ a more substantial grace period to comply with the regulations? Considering that Recyk’s operation is community and environmentally minded, and providing jobs, the one day’s notice ‘…or we’ll shut you down’ order seems a bit harsh, the mind boggles as to why somebody at the council couldn’t propose a a retrospective application, or made representations to provide a grant to pay for the licence. I thought politics was about doing good for the community but in this case it seems like its ruined Recyk’s day. The council should reconsider!

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To Tim Clark,

You do not have to follow their regulations to the law or letter, this company is achieving a service that helps every one i know from my dealings with Cannock Council how they turn things round to suit themselves.

On seeing your council has invited other companies to talk to Recyck we now see the truth of the matter the council wants to get its grubby hands on any money this company makes. Why can’t you people tell the truth for once you as a press officer have given the Express and Star your story, they print it, loads of complaints, you change your story. Unbelievable. Communism is alive and well.

What next. :))

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