Barber Threatened with Legal Action for Recycling Hair
Big Brother Watch is reporting a story from the Blackburn Citizen…
A hairdresser called Jeff Stone has taken home the cut hair from his salon for 40 years, to use on his compost heap. The council has now said that this is against the law, because it is ‘trade waste’. He and other shop-keepers have been forced to pay the council £100 for trade waste sacks to be collected from his shop to comply with recycling guidelines, with the bags going into landfill rather than being used in the sensibly and environmentally useful disposal he has used for so long.
…and is rightly angry about it.
Mr Stone has also been told that he cannot take home newspapers he buys for his customers to read, since they were bought with cash from the till.
Some days I think that we are on a national suicide mission.
