Environment Secretary David Miliband wants English councils to be able to bring in charges - and to give cash "rewards" for those who recycle. - Will Scottish and Welsh MPs be abstaining again!?!
The Waste Strategy gives examples which suggest "green" homes could get £30 a year back from their council, while non-recyclers pay an extra £30. - What's 50p per week when you already pay £20 per week for "Council services"!?!
Councils would [ ] have to take into account size of households, whether people had young children or whether they were on council tax benefit. - Another benefit of being on benefits then!
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We now know that the cost of recycling is filtering down from the EU, through the Government, through Local councils to the Council Tax Payer. The council tax payer will pick up the bill and the local councils will be the losers in the blame game.
If the Government installs this recycling tax, it is a tax that everyone must pay. Even those on benefits. Any exceptions will defeat the object. People who don’t pay anything towards the service will make little effort to recycle. There are millions of individuals paying nothing for services at the moment.
The Government would do well to remember that discrimination of any kind is supposed to be illegal.
Until all the facilities for recycling are installed (some plastics and tetra packs are non recyclable) this tax should be postponed’.
For information
In some Japanese cities the rubbish is collected every day. The citizens are asked to separate out their rubbish each day ready for collection. Everything is clearly marked with a recycling symbol, to make sure the customer knows what is what. It cost them nothing for collection.
How? Well the rubbish collection is put out to tender. Private companies bid for the pleasure of collecting your rubbish. They
actually pay the Municipality. They then, in turn, made their profit from the recycling of plastics, glass, paper etc. Why is the same system not possible in this country? It would ease
some of the burden on the council tax payer and help to keep the
streets cleaner.
Where there is muck there is money and the councils should, perhaps, be cashing in
Isitfair The Nationwide Campaign Calling For The Reform Of The Council Tax System
people on benifits will be selling bin space to those of us who work.
Only £20 a week Council Tax, wherever do you live? I pay twice that amount for probably an equally non service
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