Rubbish disposal these days has been turned into a complex sorting and sifting operation. Gone are the bin men who came once a week and hoisted your bins contents onto the back of a bin lorry — no questions asked. Now it’s a sort-it-yourself into multiple bins, collected on different weeks — and woe betide you if you get it wrong!

Rubbish has been a frequent feature of my blog and it pops up more and more in the national news with bin collection strikes and flytipping ever more commonplace.

(Click on “rubbish“ in the Tag Cloud to my other posts on this subject)

It’s a symbol of our increasing wastefulness as a society and our lack of regard for our environment.

SO IS THERE A BETTER WAY ?

Conveyer belts up the central reservations of the M1, M5 and M6 could be used to carry all our waste up to a remote glen in Scotland. The glen could be gradually filled in to eventually make a great ski slope to rival Switzerland. That would be great for tourism. The methane produced by the decaying rubbish could be harnessed to power all the new hotels that would be needed.

Who could possibly disagree with that?