EU trash rules causing smelly riots in the UK

Guardian:

It's starting to get nasty out there. In Preston, the Lancashire Evening Post reports, refuse collectors have recently come under a barrage of abuse from householders furious at "changes to the way their rubbish is collected". In some cases, it appears, residents have hurled burst and stinking bin bags, forcing bin men to flee.

In Lynn, west Norfolk, according to the Lynn News, long-suffering refuse operatives have been "verbally and physically abused at least three times in the past month". Residents angry that overfull wheelie bins are not being emptied have been warned in no uncertain terms to cease attacking bin men or face prosecution.

In normally staid Cannock, meanwhile, the Birmingham Post relates that decent, law-abiding family men, unable to cope now the council has switched to fortnightly collections, have been seen stealing into their neighbours' gardens at dead of night and nicking their wheelie bins. "It's like something out of Mad Max," says resident Paul Nicholls. "Every man for himself, scavenging for an extra bin."

We are in the grip, it would appear, of a national crisis. "I'm waiting for the riots in the streets," Doretta Cocks of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collection, which has grown from nothing to 22,000 highly vocal members in the space of three years, says ominously. "Though in fact, in some places we've already had them. An awful lot of people are very, very angry."

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Over the past few years, however, stimulated by the prospect of swingeing £180m-a-year EU fines and dire warnings that if we carry on as we are, all of our island's landfill sites will be completely full within the next eight or nine years, we have started to get a bit better. Unfortunately, it's proving to be a painful process.

"I'm afraid change is unpopular," says Phillip Ward, director of the Waste Resources Action Programme (Wrap - get it?), the government's chief advisory body on the issue. "We're moving from an easy, familiar system where we just slung everything into a sack and once a week someone came and took it away for us - we neither knew nor cared where - to one where we actually have to do something. Some people will always find that difficult, for whatever reason."

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Change does not seem to be a winning slogan in the UK. This trashy conflict is a result of the loss of sovereignty over trash collection to the EU and its bureaucrats who are environmental control freaks that are making the environment in the UK pretty smelly. If you had local control of trash you could vote out the idiots who decree trash pickup every other week. In contrast when I lived in Houston it was picked up twice a week.

As a result of being in the EU the Uk can't get rid of its trash in a convenient manner and it also must not deport terrorist to places like Jordon so it has to pay 500,000 pounds to keep him there plus another 50,000 pounds annually in welfare. Multiply those numbers by two to get the dollar equivalent. If you can't handle that math you should be deported to an EU country.