Mass Fly-tipping Begins Here!

[Sweetpea]

Bin taxes arrive... with a£40 charge for families ON TOP of their council tax bill

Families who put out more than one bin bag each week will have to pay extra under Britain's first pay-as-you-throw scheme.

Tens of thousands of households will be charged 28p for every extra sack they leave out. A family using three a week would pay £40 a year on top of their council tax bill


Councils around the country will be watching the progress of the scheme in Tory- controlled Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Many are expected to follow suit.
But critics say the scheme - which had a four-month trial last year - is effectively a tax on large families.

Some believe the charges could even be illegal.

Bin taxes arrive... with a £40 charge for families ON TOP of their council tax bill | the Daily Mail

Some think it's illegal? I do for one. How can you be charged twice for the same service? It also openly promotes fly-tipping and who pays to clear that up? We could actually be paying three times for the one service.

Another thing: Packaging is NOT OUR FAULT. WE DO NOT ASK FOR IT!

Fine the companies that use all this packaging.

[easyg]

I have to say, that where I live in North Chingford, actually about five miles from Broxbourne. The house I live in has a communial rubbish collection point. Although I do re-cycle, if I did not then, the Council still would not be able to distinguish my rubbish from the other homeowners, it also goes for a large amount of other owners as well in this district.
Having said that, it is a disgusting charge that is being levied.

[Sweetpea]

There is only two of us, three bins. We only just make it one week. Which is the household rubbish and dry recyle bin. For families, it's going to be a lot more difficult.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Where do they think the rubbish comes from? Do they think we sit here knitting it?