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Keith.  For many years piles of free newspapers were dumped under bushes near to Syon Lane station - the allotments and Quaker Lane were quite popular dumping areas.  Since the recycling banks – and it may be a coincidence - these piles of papers have gone.Each time I visited the paper banks at Homebase – I think it was either a Thursday or Friday – I had to wade through the plastic strips which go around bundles of newspapers which had been cut off and left strewn on the ground.  Often when I looked in the bank there would be huge piles of leaflets and free papers.  It looked as if the plastic strips had been cut away from the bundles as they are too big to post through without dividing them up.  I did think they could have placed the ‘strips’ in the plastic recycling bin which is beside the paper banks.On the occasion I took the photograph, the paper inside the container was high enough to get a photo of the newspapers inside and the headline on the Informer was a bit of luck.  I e-mailed the information and photograph in to the Informer and had no reply.  I also spoke to LBH’s waste people who said they were fully aware of the dumping of free newspapers and leaflets inside containers but short of installing a camera there was nothing they could do. I suppose we should consider it positively and be pleased they are not tucked under bushes any longer and that they contribute towards the Boroughs recycling targets?  It is a shame that the local newspapers are failing though.

Sarah Felstead ● 6310d