Pay as you throw waste?

Question

Does anyone else think that the people doing the opinion poll published today saying “that people are in favour of being charged by the amount of rubbish they have” were given the answer before the question?

Answer 1

I'll believe those polls a LITTLE if and when they ever poll someone I know.  I think they only poll college kids up north...

I know my parents live in a county that charges waste disposal fees by the pound.  They say litter is everywhere, especially in wooded areas.  My dad had to get a bed cover for his truck because people kept putting garbage on the back while he was up town.

Answer 2

Oh yeah, another tax. But this is the last one. Honest.

Answer 3

Reduction in council tax!!!! not a snowballs chance in h**l of that happening!

Will we be supplied with locks on the bins?

How about fining the idiot retailers and manufacturers that think we need individually wrapped vegetables and fruit.

We should get a discount, by weight, for taking all the useless packaging back to the supermarkets for the retailers to recycle.

Watch the countryside just become one vast unmanaged landfill!  and the countries carbon footprint increase exponentially as eejits in 4 wheel drives trawl around towns at night looking for unguarded bins to dump stuff in.

Answer 4

I already pay for my waste to be uplifted - it is called Council Tax.

Answer 5

These days recycling is big business - and very profitable. They should be paying us to take the stuff away.

Answer 6

I'll shock you even more , wait untill you get billed for the rental of your wheelie bin , the service charge , and the charge for not paying by direct debit

Anyone who agreed ? whould have to had been on a different planet

There's one thing saying the idea whould work , but another getting anyone to agree

Everyone should write to there MP and just write  " NO TO WHEELIE CHARGE " I think then the govenment , might just understand the words NO

Answer 7

Somehow I do not know how that will work if you live in a block of flats.

My argument is once I brought an item, it is mine to do as I wish to do with it, I do not believe in recycling and therefore I can either bin it, set it on fire, which my neighbours will not like or I can just fill my flat up with rubbish until it stinks!

No wonder so many people and companies here are fly tipping!

Answer 8

Definitely yes. How come no one you ask, ever seems to have been asked their opinion for these polls? I'm all for recycling and reducing waste but i don't see why i should pay more than i already pay to have it done, in council tax. Somehow i cant see the money going to reduce waste anyway, I think it's just another tax.

Answer 9

If they have a poll,then they should ask all house holds.That is the only way they will get an accurate percentage.But,they wont,because they know that the majority are against it.How would they be able to check.The only way is for each house hold to have a lockable bin.Which leaves the question,how will the council access them when they need emptying.If it is introduced,all that will happen,is there will be more fly tipping.You will see our countryside suffer even more.

Answer 10

Seems stupid to me. Lets face it, it will only make the country worse. There will be people fly tipping all over the place and then the government will try to stop that with more new laws.

Answer 11

The poll was, sorry to say it rubbish, it's just another tax, pure and simple. Gotta love the Government!

Answer 12

You need to see the full facts, when I heard this on the radio this morning, I was totally against the idea.

However it is not designed as an additional charge, it is combined with a reduction in council tax, and the more you recycle the less you pay.

Under these circumstances, and with the knoweledge of how big a discount there would be to council tax, I might have voted for it given the chance.

I recylcle much more than I put into the rubbish, we currentl have bags for recycling, I put at least one out every week, the rubbish which I have been putting out about once a month, has still been lighter than the recycling bags for that week.

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