| Plans To Charge For Household Rubbish
I have be following this with interest for a few weeks now and wonder what others think.
A plan to bill every household in England for the amount of rubbish they leave out for the dustman is being discussed to help meet an EU directive to reduce drastically the 1,400 landfill sites in the UK over the next eight years.
At the moment there are 3 options they are looking at :
1) The most likely system would be a specific charge for each sack of rubbish - possibly allowing each household one or two free sacks a week - and levying a charge of up to £1 on each extra sack. This would provide an incentive for people to recycle or compost more of their kitchen waste.
2) Would be a flat charge on every household - for example, £5 a month - that filled up more than two sacks a week. Councils would be encouraged to come up with their own variations.
3)A third possibility is to introduce the weighing of wheelie bins in dustcarts resulting in charges for excess weight paid by the householder. Similar schemes have been piloted in Europe
They are also considering whether charging should be introduced at household waste tips - except where people are dumping rubbish for recycling - to reduce landfill use.
I personally think this will lead to more fly tipping and cause a bigger problem for the enviroment and its Wildlife.
Anyone else got any views on this??  |