Obviously I wouldn’t be having lunch with you if I didn’t respect you and your company. Its great to have your views on the blog and great to get some dialogue going.

The sifting technique I’m sure will prove itself in the longer term, however, flagging up concerns which must be on the minds of our customers and getting answers back from companies such as TCM, can only do the industry and it’s customers good.

As for the Batman/Superman scenario….they both wear underpants outside of their tights - so again enough said.

Mike C

As always quite an informative, (if slightly blinkered and one sided) blog. Just to clarify, there is not always the need to remove Rhizome from site. If possible we are able to bury minimal quantities on site which is typically <1% of any total volume, secondly we if necessary on a large long term project will use employed agency staff simply to take care of non critical parts of the process, these are backed up by full time TCM representative who rigerously check the quality of this work. As you will be aware, we do have a large and profitable number of major projects and as such to directly employ this number of staff would inevitably lead to higher overheads and we are loathed to pass on these costs to out clients in what are diffiuclt time.

Perhaps if you have learnt anything from these blogs (which I have my doubts about) it is that you should not be too quick to critise new system that perhaps you do not fully understand.

I will happily be Superman if you prefer, I always thought he was slightly better and more popular than Batman anyway. Perhaps there is a trend there too.

Alex???

Mike C