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Published Date: 22 August 2007
PRE-PAID waste sacks and wheelie bins with microchips could be introduced to make householders pay for their rubbish under plans outlined by council leaders today.
People could also be charged according to the size of their wheelie bin, in Local Government Association proposals to cut waste and encourage more recycling.

But the LGA insisted the "save as you throw" proposals would not be a stealth tax.



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  • Last Updated: 22 August 2007 9:38 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Litter
 
1

Hmm ...,

22/08/2007 13:20:53

... sounds like another excuse to make us all pay more - the ideal local authority solution to how to actually do their jobs!

Waste collection is what they are there for - not diversity officers, benefits advisors, photocopier operators and Uncle Tom Cobley and all

First, let's cut back on spurious council jobs, then let's look at getting the work done more effectively.

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Colin G,

Edinburgh 22/08/2007 14:44:45

Edinburgh is full of tenements with shared wheelie bins. Are we going to have to give our bag of rubbish to an inspector to weigh before it is put into the bin?

3

bill inch,

22/08/2007 15:11:04

Here we go another not verywel thought out idea. Once people star fly tipping They will have to employ tipping wardens and cameras and vans etc.

4

Colin G,

Edinburgh 22/08/2007 15:44:56

Re2.

Apologies didn't read correctly. I assume that the idea is that tenement dwellers will buy prepaid sacks with a little stamp on them to identify their bags.

Or maybe they will just tip non-identifiable rubbish into the wheelie bins.

5

Boy Wonder,

22/08/2007 18:24:58

I take it there would be corresponding cut in the Council Tax which already pays for this service then?

6

Mr Fuzzy,

Edinburgh 22/08/2007 23:15:52

Our apartment already have recycling bins for newspapers, magazines, glass bottles, cardboard, metal cans and plastic bottles.

The only stuff we can't recycle are used kitchen roll paper, the wrappers for cheese and meat, and vegetable peelings and stale bits of bread.

Perhaps we should leave the latter on the windowsills for the pigeons and seagulls to eat?


 

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