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Health-and-safety chiefs have banned an avid recycler from taking rubbish to his village tip in a wheelbarrow - telling him to bring it by car.
For the last eight years Andre Wheeler has loaded his glass, cans, paper and garden waste onto his barrow before setting off to the tip.
But now he's been told that wheeling the barrow onto the site is too dangerous and he must join the queues of motorists who deliver their rubbish by car.
The 61-year-old, a design and technology teacher, said: 'It's too ridiculous for words. Telling me to burn petrol to drive to the recycling bins is hardly going to save the the planet.
'I passionately believe in recycling and I use the barrow for environmental reasons.'
He added: 'Walking there keeps me fit - but now I've been banned for health-and-safety reasons.'
Mr Wheeler, who is chairman of Barwell Parish Council in Leicestershire, said staff at the tip had told him the lack of footpaths at the site meant he could get knocked down.Health-and-safety chiefs have banned an avid recycler from taking rubbish to his... more
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