what a load of rubbish!

[crisgal]

i've just read on the news that two thirds of the public would welcome pay-as-you-go waste disposal.
How on earth can this be true? I am part of the public and no one has asked me.

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, well i certainly wouldnt welcome it.
Unless they are going to reduce my council tax to compensate for the cost.
I think it would create an increase in fly tipping anyway if this happened, or people would end up putting their rubbish in other peoples bins...

[whiffey]

I would welcome it. I recycle everything except food scraps, and I never put out black bag rubbish so I'd be quids in.

Before you chuck something in the bin for landfill, check first if you could recycle it instead.

[Gromit]

You Pay-as-you-go for a lot of services. Gas, Electric, Water, Phone, Mobile. Why not waste? That way you only pay for what you use. If you don't want a �250 phone bill, you shut up. If you don't want a �250 waste bill, you recycle.

Very simple, very fair

[crisgal]

i recycle what i can - blue box, green box, green tub etc and have extras too, but i still have two grey bins full of other waste every fortnight. I don't know how i could make it less.

My point was though - who have they asked? Any of you lot?
I bet they haven't, so how have they got to their conclusion?

[Loosehead]

Well assuming they are talking about non recyclable stuff that would normally go to landfill I would welcome it, it would at least stop the morons who cannot grasp that one bin is for recycling and the other is not! It's amazing how dim some people are. Anyway my main concern is that it would encourage a lot of rubbish being illigally dumped.

Another thing you can do is take all the excessive packaging off your groceries in the supermarket and leave it for them, that raises a few eyebrows in ASDA!!

[Reverandfunk]

My council doesnt offer the opportunity to recycle.

I wouldn't welcome pay as you go, we already pay too much indirect and direct tax.

[China Doll]

Seems fair enough to me.

Although to answer your question, no, I haven't been asked.

[IggyB]

depends who did the survey but generally someone like mori would ask a statistically viable group of people from around the country of different ages, locations, sex etc. and then pull out a % that could be applied to the whole country.

as for pay-as-you-go waste removal - in theory i like the idea but also think that it would increase fly tipping and people putting rubbish in others bins. I don't think you should compare it to phone bills etc as these are hard to alter e.g. if you use the phone lots there it is but if you want to dodge the waste bills you could just sling your rubbish over the neighbours wall or hide it in community bins along the road or just throw it in hedges. I'd welcome a change but i'm not sure pay-as-you-go is the way to go

[Reverandfunk]

Surely part of your council tax goes towards waste collection, so will will be given the opportunity to opt out?

Yeah right, they want it all ways.

[NJOK]

Money-Saving Tip Of The Day:

Save ���s by flushing fecal waste down the toilet rather than leaving it outside in bin bags.

[China Doll]

NJOK, that's really gross!

Besides, I'm pretty sure a lot of it gets recycled on here.

Especially if they use your Daily Mail diet.

[Gromit]

You may not have been directly asked the question, but most councils have a Recycling Policy (I think it may even be a statutory requirement). That policy will state whether your Council plans to implement Pay-as-you-go Waste Disposal. The Councillors you voted for at the local elections will then vote for or against the plan. Local democracy at work.

[sp1814]

Weird - rather than sort out their rubbish, people will go around fly-tipping...which takes much more effort.

People are odd.

I'd welcome 'pay as you go', but I'm lucky in that we live about 10 minutes from our local council recycling centre/dump.

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, but would you all welcome it if you knew the real cost.
We already recycle where i am and i do my bit.
Apparently though, the council are piloting a chip in the bins, which when the refuse collectors pick up, they weigh it and you get billed accordingly.
i dont mind pay as you go refuse, but they have stated that there will be no reduction in council tax if the scheme goes ahead.
There was a part in our local news paper where people could air their views, most agreed with the idea in principal, but all agreed that it was just another oncost.
A lot of concern was that how would people know if others are putting things in their bins when they had gone to work?
And many said it would increase fly tipping as they couldnt afford extra outgoings...

[jno]

doesn't take any effort at all to put my rubbish in my neighbour's bin rather than my own, sp1814, it's only three feet away from mine, and when mine's full...

[Gromit]

Introducing...

The Wheelie Bin Lock

Sad.

[anotheoldgit]

Does anyone think that our money grabbing local authorities would lower your council tax if you reduced your amount of rubbish.

No they would charge you just the same as you are paying now (with yearly increases of course) and then levy a huge charge on those that happend to bin the same amount as they do now.

Take what they did when they introduced the Poll-Tax. The charge per property was still the same, but everyone in the household had to pay it.

This is rip off England we are talking about.

[crisgal]

i don't see why they would have to do this, i mean, okay, we're a large family and do have a lot of rubbish (even though we recycle what we can). But there are lots of single people, elderly in particular - like my mum - who have hardly any waste at all. Surely between us and my mum we are two average households.

[Zen]

This is based on a poll of 1024 people,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6957814.stm

Hardly representative of the population.presumably they never went out of the office and just asked the council employees there's usually thousands of them with nothing better to do.

[Zen]

Ooops !! 1028 people,I must have forgotten the 4 non smoking advisors employed by the Council,,,,,,,,