How can we make collecting rubbish as complex as possible?

[DimPrawn]

The Socialist minds at work again...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6957814.stm

The government said it had finished a consultation on "pay-as-you-throw" and was looking at changing the law.

A Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokeswoman said: "We would need to change the law to introduce variable waste charges and it might be possible to do something in the Climate Change Bill.

"It would be a cost-neutral option, not a stealth tax, and local authorities could only take it up if they had the infrastructure to enable people to recycle."

The LGA said its survey showed public support for changing the law to allow councils to introduce waste charges.

The three schemes outlined by the LGA are:

Householders buy different sized pre-paid rubbish sacks, which it says would be practical in urban areas

Wheelie bins fitted with microchips allowing rubbish to be weighed as it is dumped into the refuse truck

Homes choose the size of their wheelie bin and are charged accordingly


And 64% of the population think this is a good idea and is somehow going to cost them less money....

[daviejones]

Will council tax (rates) be reduced to cover this?

Stoopid idea...idiots at work again!!

[milanbenes]

this is the system in Belgium...

'Householders buy different sized pre-paid rubbish sacks, which it says would be practical in urban areas'

and you should see the amount of rubbish on the streets and overflowing street rubbish bins

Milan.

[swamp]

None of these ideas work for people who live in flats.

[Troll]

I think most people will omit the pay bit & just throw

[Ruprect]

"It would be a cost-neutral option, not a stealth tax, and local authorities could only take it up if they had the infrastructure to enable people to recycle."

*cough* *splutter* *spit out coffee* I don't believe that from this government.



Why not address the problem from the right angle and get the supermarkets to reduce the ludicrous amount of excess packaging they use?

[daviejones]

Or put their rubbish in your neighbours bin!!!

[NickFitz]

And 64% of the population think this is a good idea and is somehow going to cost them less money....

The survey probably asked "Do you agree with us doing something which we assure you is a good idea and promise will somehow cost you less money?"

Even so, I'm surprised they managed to get 64% to agree, given the consistently high level of dimwittery amongst the general public

[Andy2]

Why not address the problem from the right angle and get the supermarkets to reduce the ludicrous amount of excess packaging they use?

no, that will be common sense ,
which they don't seem to have

[Troll]

The survey probably asked "Do you agree with us doing something which we assure you is a good idea and promise will somehow cost you less money?"

Even so, I'm surprised they managed to get 64% to agree, given the consistently high level of dimwittery amongst the general public

I salute the extrapolation from such a small sample

Almost two-thirds of people would support a "pay-as-you-throw" system of collecting household waste, a Local Government Association survey suggests.

Its poll of 1,028 people found 64% in favour of lower council tax and charges according to how much rubbish they put out, with recyclers paying less.