After several visits over the past fifteen months, we still do not possess the requisite permit to tip our rubbish at the Richelieu déchetterie.
We have filled in the correct forms - twice. We have spoken to the very pleasant monsieur who oversees the site - several times. He shakes his head in bewilderment and promises us that it will arrive chez nous but still nothing happens.
We are not particularly worried because we carry on taking our rubbish and monsieur accepts it with a smile and a handshake.. We, like him, are more puzzled than anything.
However, arriving back from our stay in the UK we duly put out our rubbish on Wednesday evening for its weekly collection on Thursday morning and the pattern repeated itself: nothing happened.
There has never been a problem before with the weekly collection of household and recyclable waste so we left the bags out 'just incase'. By when they were still there the next day we gave up and brought them back inside. An internet search revealed that our collection day has changed to Tuesday. No-one had told us and we wonder if this is inextricably linked to our lack of permit for the décheterie??
Who knows?? But then again, who knows the correct spelling of déchet(t)erie??
Even the Conseil General d'Indre et Loire doesn't appear to know (see link)
So why not put it to the vote? Those in favour...?!
