[werdnal]

It really annoys me that whilst we re-cycle whatever we can, and put out about a third of a black bag a week, many similar sized households just dump the lot. However, I can't see why local authorities couldn't issue some kind of incentive to encourage people to re-cycle, instead of wielding the heavy stick and punishing those that don't. Perhaps "green" credits to use against council tax payments or something similar.

Surely some form of reward system for those who actually bother to sort, store and put out their glass, cans, paper etc, would be better that trying to enforce some sort of fines or charges which are open to abuse by unscrupulous neighbours who put their rubbish out with other people's to try to avoid fines.

Incidentally, my mum lives on the border of 2 collection rounds. If she puts her refuse at the front on the roadside, it goes on a Monday, whilst on Wednesdays, the back alley is cleared by another round, so I can see her and her neighbours sitting pretty with 2 collections a week!