Food Waste

The local council are starting up a food waste collection scheme,
which involves us putting certain foods out for collection in
biodegradable sacks, which will be disposed of differently from
normal household waste.
This is to avoid sending it to the local landfill site, to avoid substantial
fines from government for the amount of methane gas generated
by biodegradable waste.

Fair enough you might say, until I read the rest of the information
pamphlet sent to us -
"The food waste will continue to be sent to the landfill site, as the
expected 1.5 tonnes collected per week would have to be sent by
dustcart to the transfer station in Braintree, then to the composting
facility in Cambridge. This would create double the CO² emissions
of sending it to the local landfill, which would have a negative impact
on the environment"
Which sort of defeats the object doesn't it?
Just by having seperate collections for this and the recycled items
they have turned one dustcart into 3, tripling their CO².

Another point would be that Southend don't provide wheelie bins
or dustbins, now we are going to get kitchen caddy's, a green edge
of property bin, and a 20lt Brown edge of property bin for storing
the biodegradable sacks. More plastic produced in the name of recycling?