Monday - June 15, 2009

New gween plan for recycling. Bigger fine for those who don’t, then for those who shoplift.

New gween plan for recycling. Bigger fine for those who don’t, then for those who shoplift.
Hey ... this is the UK and, logic rules? 
Just how many containers will households have to keep track of and store?

Here’s what’ll happen I predict.  More people who have the room in their back gardens (and some who don’t) will be making greater use of bonfires. Which btw is legal here.  Can be a bother too when the wind gets in the right (wrong from your pov if you’re in the path) direction and the fumes come indoors.  It’s happened to us here more then once.  I think more folks will be doing that.  Then too I think the idiots who already do, will flytip to a greater degree.
That is, dumping rubbish on the roadsides or in out of the way but still public places.

Recycle your waste or face a £100 fine, says Government
By Steve Doughty

Every household will be forced to recycle their rubbish under new Government plans.

Those who fail to comply are likely to face £100 on-the-spot fines - rising to £1,000 for persistently flouting the law.

Under the scheme, everyone will have to keep a kitchen slopbucket to hold their food waste and scraps.

Glass, cans, wood and paper will be banned from wheelie bins to force people to separate them in recycling boxes.

The idea of councils charging bin taxes was killed off earlier this year by then Waste Minister Jane Kennedy.
But within hours of her resignation from Government yesterday, Environment Minister Hilary Benn announced a consultation on compulsory recycling.
He said: ‘It’s time for a new war on waste.’

The scheme follows four years of controversy over fortnightly collections, bin taxes and other Government efforts to enforce recycling and reduce the amount of refuse sent to landfill sites.

Under the system, food waste will have to be kept in a caddie in the home until collection by binmen.
Ideally this should be weekly, but many cash-strapped councils will only commit to fortnightly collections.

Once collected by binmen, the waste will be taken to central ‘anaerobic digestion’ plants and used to generate energy.
The process, however, has never been used profitably in past years.

Mr Benn said: ‘Take food, glass, aluminium or wood - why would you want to put any of them into landfill when they can be recycled, or used to make energy? What sort of a society would throw away aluminium cans worth £500 a ton when producers are crying out for the raw material?’
A consultation paper on compulsory recycling will be published this year, followed by a detailed consultation next year.

Compulsory recycling has been tried out in four London boroughs. The schemes, which require householders to put certain materials in specified bins, apply only to those living in houses, not flat dwellers.

In one borough, householders failing to comply face £100 on-the-spot fines.  This compares with £80 fines for shoplifters who steal goods worth under £200.

In other areas, fines of up to £1,000 are imposed by courts on those who persist in breaking the rules. Doretta Cocks, of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collections, said: ‘They just are not getting the message.

‘Who is going to police this system? It means bigger and bigger rubbish-police forces. ‘How else are they going to work out if someone has put vegetable peelings in their wheelie bin?  ‘Taxpayers and council tax payers will be footing the bill. It’s ridiculous.’

(of course it’s ridiculous. it’s labour, int it?)

Tory communities spokesman Caroline Spelman said: ‘More needs to be done to increase recycling.
‘But Labour ministers’ heavyhanded approach is all about forcing councils to cut rubbish collections, sneak in bin taxes and hit families with unfair fines.’
‘Under the Government’s plans, a convicted shoplifter will receive a smaller fine than a family home for making a minor mistake in putting out their household rubbish.
‘Hard-pressed council taxpayers deserve much better than that.’

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 06/15/2009 at 01:46 PM   
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