Pay as you throw

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accymel

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Watching Dispatches atm about bin wars & whether the fortnightly collections do improve recycling. Manufacturer packaging hampering landfills & whether they are accountable & being able to prosecute them for over packaging regulations. Even discussed the fact that many of our recycle doesn't get recycled due to contamination ie accidently put with non recycables & whether on the spot fines for doing so more than 3 x.

So do u want to pay as u throw & whether there would be decrease in council tax enough to cover this soon to be seperate charge, also the consideration to how many in a household.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6685409.stm
 
accymel said:
whether there would be decrease in council tax enough to cover this soon to be seperate charge
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As long as I have a hole in my bum they will never decrease the council tax for this, only use it as a means of increasing it.
 
just another way to screw us i agree with recycling but picking on the public is out of order i worked for sita lancashire for two years and business are the worst for not recycling including the council when council empty house they throw it all on winnie hill apart from fridges they are the worst ofenders.
 
lancsdave said:
As long as I have a hole in my bum they will never decrease the council tax for this, only use it as a means of increasing it.
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Well surely it would have to because atm refuge is part of council tax if we are paying seperately then wheres that slice going - not paying twice for refuge:(
 
davo69 said:
just another way to screw us i agree with recycling but picking on the public is out of order i worked for sita lancashire for two years and business are the worst for not recycling including the council when council empty house they throw it all on winnie hill apart from fridges they are the worst ofenders.
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Yeh true point, as discussed on this thread yesterday http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30969&highlight=grey+bin even still the bug bear was what u can & cant recycle & how little people actually know despite their fancy leaflets it can still be confusing:confused:
 
missed dispatches, but the 6-00 news was on about it, a guy was saying how/who do you charge people in flats with community refuse bins? until they tackle the real problem e.g. big business this is just another way to screw joe public. who contribute less than 20% to the refuse problem.:(
 
cashman said:
missed dispatches, but the 6-00 news was on about it, a guy was saying how/who do you charge people in flats with community refuse bins? until they tackle the real problem e.g. big business this is just another way to screw joe public. who contribute less than 20% to the refuse problem.:(
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Quite interesting cashy, they interviewed a representative on behalf of the supermarket/shops industry he claimed majority of people wanted the extra packaging with no figures of these people they claim to back that up but when dispatches did their survey 85% of people were clearly not happy with it & blamed the manufacturing industry:rolleyes:
 
I live on my own so not much rubbish compared to a family with 2 kids. I recycle what i can and chuck everything else in my other bin.
 
I hate to say this, but if you look through past threads and posts, I said what was going on in the southern counties, as a pilot scheme it was all part of a general plan to charge non recyclers, and reward the ones that do.
 
Ianto.W. said:
I hate to say this, but if you look through past threads and posts, I said what was going on in the southern counties, as a pilot scheme it was all part of a general plan to charge non recyclers, and reward the ones that do.
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and do you seriously believe they will reward the ones that do ian?
 
We should all be encouraged to recycle, if we care at all about tomorrow, and the world we leave for future generations.

The fines/rewards, and charging for how much non-recyclable refuge we produce, will be totally unworkable.

It will result in a massive increase in fly tipping, as well as people dumping their rubbish in other people's bins.

In my opinion education about why all of us should want to recycle, should be the way forward.
 
garinda said:
We should all be encouraged to recycle, if we care at all about tomorrow, and the world we leave for future generations.

The fines/rewards, and charging for how much non-recyclable refuge we produce, will be totally unworkable.

It will result in a massive increase in fly tipping, as well as people dumping their rubbish in other people's bins.

In my opinion education about why all of us should want to recycle, should be the way forward.
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I aggree with you gary, the trouble is the council collectors want it all gift wraped, My Bernadette put some cardboard out last week they did not take it, as it was not 'tied up' my next door neighbour kindly took it to the tip.
 
garinda said:
We should all be encouraged to recycle, if we care at all about tomorrow, and the world we leave for future generations.

The fines/rewards, and charging for how much non-recyclable refuge we produce, will be totally unworkable.

It will result in a massive increase in fly tipping, as well as people dumping their rubbish in other people's bins.

In my opinion education about why all of us should want to recycle, should be the way forward.
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We won't be as willing to re-cycle as much as we should as long as they (the council), keep using bully boy tactics, the council need to work with the people. :o

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29962
 
Ianto.W. said:
I aggree with you gary, the trouble is the council collectors want it all gift wraped, My Bernadette put some cardboard out last week they did not take it, as it was not 'tied up' my next door neighbour kindly took it to the tip.
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I agree. The current situation is that it is supposed to be flattened and tied up, and left propped next to the other rubbish to be recycled.

Many people complain that at present it isn't collected, and very often becomes a soggy mess in the rain, or blows away.

Perhaps we should be issued with a designated sack for cardboard as well.
 
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