<b>Postmen are to reduce landfill waste and save you time by delivering books you foolishly bought on the internet straight into your recycle bin.</b>

Green posties organised by St Edmundsbury Borough Council will now post into your blue bin to save you the inconvenience of having to throw unwanted books out yourself.

Suffolk residents currently experience a time lag of six to 12 months between ordering a book on the internet and throwing it out after realising they are never going to read it.

But under the new scheme, it could take as little as two weeks to get from purchase to pulp.

Residents have responded favourably. “It’s what we’ve been crying out for,” said Jessica Astor, a 20-year-old student from Wickambrook.

She added: “I got really drunk one night and woke up collapsed on top of my laptop. Four days later the postman turned up with a box as heavy as a brick. It turned out to be a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo.

“I had to wait 18 months before I admitted to myself that I hate all books and all I really care about is watching repeats of The Jeremy Kyle Show.”

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/book-dump-e1441892915569.jpg"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/book-dump-e1441892915569.jpg" alt="throw away books" width="600" height="450" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1669" /></a></center><center><i>Chapter One: Throw it in the bin</center></i><br><br>
 
Book hoarding is a major problem for many families in Suffolk. A recent survey showed that the size of "still-to-read" piles in living rooms was the fourth most common reason for arguments between Suffolk couples, coming just behind the traffic on the A12, Ipswich Town’s away form, and the merits of <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/police-apache-helicopter-blows-up-vicarage/" target="_blank">Suffolk Police’s Apache gunship helicopter</a>.

<b>Horse-drawn ploughs</b>

The latest initiative enhances Suffolk’s reputation as one of the greenest counties in England. Other environmental policies rumoured to be on the table are tax breaks for people who have never watched Top Gear, and subsidies for farmers who still use horse-drawn ploughs. And the county council hopes Suffolk will have more wind turbines than people by 2020.

A spokesman dismissed claims that some people might actually want to receive the mail order reading goods that they had paid for. “Nobody buys anything that they actually need. This is the internet we’re talking about.”

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