The new paper recycling banks in York are a marvel of modern design.
Firstly, these plastic containers are easily flammable compared with their metal predecessors.
Secondly, the thick brush strips guarding the slots prevent you from quickly finding a bank that is not already full.
Thirdly, the thick brush strips and narrow slots make feeding in a handful of newspapers a chore compared with metal ones.
But enough of such trivia because we can at least say that these new plastic containers are bright, clean and shiny. Though a lick of paint would have achieved the same visual transformation on the old metal containers at a fraction of the environmental cost.
Dr Duncan Campbell,
Albemarle Road, York.
Updated: 11:17 Wednesday, July 16, 2003
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