New rubbish proposals. Don't we already pay for this through our council tax?

Question

I read that a £160,000 report is recommending a charge of around £450 per household for rubbish collection.

Also only rubbish in 75p bags purchased from the council would be collected.

Considering a large proportion of the non-recyclable waste is generated by excess supermarket packaging this is unfair.

Answer 1

Much of this is EU policy. They won't tell you that, because they don't want to demonise the EU in the eyes of the British public. Why? because they don't want to turn you against the EU for obvious reasons.

The irony is, that local Councils are the most wasteful, inefficient, politically correct, bureaucratic lefties on the planet.

Answer 2

YES I say we dump all supermarket waste at their doors or remove packaging before you leave smkt. The rest dump it up the road during the night. The council has legal obligation to pick it up. you could burn cardboard in ur garden.

NB;)I've never done any of the above have heard it mentioned down the pub and would like to say fly tipping is Illegal and damages the environment.

Answer 3

another rip off! what else!

time to leave Britain, i think!

tell me where is a nice place to live without all this nonsense?

Answer 4

Of course it's unfair. Councils in the UK have no moral authority to preach about recycling, since most of their recycling systems are (sorry;-) ) rubbish. Mine can't take cardboard, which as you've said makes up the bulk of the rubbish we put out in the form of packaging. And as for things like batteries, which are truly poisonous in landfill but can be effectively recycled, forget it.

An effective green tax system would be one where you only pay if you don't and you actually save if you do.