so who did they survey, come on own up.
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Definately not me.
Can you imagine what would happen if they started charging for rubbish? My household of myself and the misses usually nets in about half of our wheelie bin full each week. On either side, we have rented accomodation with about 2 people living per room, and they usually have a couple of wheelie bins full of rubbish as well as some other bags on the side. I'm pretty sure we'll end up having a full bin and paying for it, even though the rubbish is not ours!
Can you imagine what would happen if they started charging for rubbish? My household of myself and the misses usually nets in about half of our wheelie bin full each week. On either side, we have rented accomodation with about 2 people living per room, and they usually have a couple of wheelie bins full of rubbish as well as some other bags on the side. I'm pretty sure we'll end up having a full bin and paying for it, even though the rubbish is not ours!
ln1234 said:
Definately not me.
Can you imagine what would happen if they started charging for rubbish? My household of myself and the misses usually nets in about half of our wheelie bin full each week. On either side, we have rented accomodation with about 2 people living per room, and they usually have a couple of wheelie bins full of rubbish as well as some other bags on the side. I'm pretty sure we'll end up having a full bin and paying for it, even though the rubbish is not ours!
Thats the worry for me. Currently every now and then I'll notice someone has added a bag to our bin after I put it out. It's no big problem as our bin is normally 1/2 empty. But if I suddenly had to pay for it! How pissed off would I be!Can you imagine what would happen if they started charging for rubbish? My household of myself and the misses usually nets in about half of our wheelie bin full each week. On either side, we have rented accomodation with about 2 people living per room, and they usually have a couple of wheelie bins full of rubbish as well as some other bags on the side. I'm pretty sure we'll end up having a full bin and paying for it, even though the rubbish is not ours!
Plenty of pointless civil servants will out of a job soon.
Simple, re-employ them as 'waste managers'. That way I can feel comfortable in the knowledge that my council tax that was once being pissed up the wall as some idiot's salary is now being constructively used for them to pick through all of my s
t/used johnny's/curry wrappers to sort out what needs to be recycled.
Simple, re-employ them as 'waste managers'. That way I can feel comfortable in the knowledge that my council tax that was once being pissed up the wall as some idiot's salary is now being constructively used for them to pick through all of my s
t/used johnny's/curry wrappers to sort out what needs to be recycled.Adrian W said:
I'd really like to see who said yes, maybe the survey was all council workers or binmen.
Probably just clever questioning to make sure they got the answer they wanted...If you ask "should you have to pay to throw away more rubbish" people will say no, if you ask "should you pay less council tax if you throw away less rubbish?" people will say yes.
I would recycle more, if our council took more stuff that can be recycled. When they first started doing the collections it was great, we could put yogurt pots, marg tubs etc with the plastics and they also took fabric.
Now it's plastic bottles only, the other plastic has to go in the bin with normal rubbish, oh and they won't take the large biscuit/chocolate tins either, as apparently they are the wrong metal, so it's just baked bean and dog food tins now.
Now it's plastic bottles only, the other plastic has to go in the bin with normal rubbish, oh and they won't take the large biscuit/chocolate tins either, as apparently they are the wrong metal, so it's just baked bean and dog food tins now.
They are just desperate campaigns to get away from the fact that they are running out of land fills and that re-cycling has not really been taken up by the packaging industry.
They only way out of their mess is for the givernment to force less fancy packaging and for it to be easily recycled. Like paper wrap instead of non recyclable plastic.
They only way out of their mess is for the givernment to force less fancy packaging and for it to be easily recycled. Like paper wrap instead of non recyclable plastic.
RDE said:
We already do pay for our rubbish to be taken away. It's called taxation.
Paying more for throwing away more = more fly tipping. More fly tipping = more cleaning up = more of your money spent(wasted). It won't happen, it's just Daily Mail-esque page-fodder.
My Bil has a furnace. I'll get him to make me one. And all that plastic which my council won't and don't recycle and all the card board taht they don't either, will be burned with toxic fumes going into the atmosphere. That Leaves the Dog sPaying more for throwing away more = more fly tipping. More fly tipping = more cleaning up = more of your money spent(wasted). It won't happen, it's just Daily Mail-esque page-fodder.
t bags - tesco bags. Instead of collecting my Dogs Pooh and putting it in my own bin, I'll just put it in the nearest post box. Then I can ask for a reduction in my rates as I don't have any rubbish. article said:
... but the survey showed 79% of women and 70% of men saying they should be rewarded financially if they create less waste and recycle more.
A much narrower majority - 55% of women and 50% of men - said it was only fair they should pay more if they throw away more.
I think that implies that whoever they asked wasn't very bright, since at least 20% of them contradicted themselves.A much narrower majority - 55% of women and 50% of men - said it was only fair they should pay more if they throw away more.
Mr POD said:
RDE said:
We already do pay for our rubbish to be taken away. It's called taxation.
Paying more for throwing away more = more fly tipping. More fly tipping = more cleaning up = more of your money spent(wasted). It won't happen, it's just Daily Mail-esque page-fodder.
My Bil has a furnace. I'll get him to make me one. And all that plastic which my council won't and don't recycle and all the card board taht they don't either, will be burned with toxic fumes going into the atmosphere. That Leaves the Dog sPaying more for throwing away more = more fly tipping. More fly tipping = more cleaning up = more of your money spent(wasted). It won't happen, it's just Daily Mail-esque page-fodder.
t bags - tesco bags. Instead of collecting my Dogs Pooh and putting it in my own bin, I'll just put it in the nearest post box. Then I can ask for a reduction in my rates as I don't have any rubbish. kambites said:
article said:
... but the survey showed 79% of women and 70% of men saying they should be rewarded financially if they create less waste and recycle more.
A much narrower majority - 55% of women and 50% of men - said it was only fair they should pay more if they throw away more.
I think that implies that whoever they asked wasn't very bright, since at least 20% of them contradicted themselves.A much narrower majority - 55% of women and 50% of men - said it was only fair they should pay more if they throw away more.
BBC said:
incentivise
Truly horrible word.Anyway, shouldn't the retailers start cutting back on their packaging? I've seen no decrease since this was originally talked about some 2 decades ago (at least, that's as far back as I can remeber).
Our local supermarket has recycling points, so if the councils *do* start charging for us to throw, then I can see the recycling point and the local tip getting more of my business.
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