Brit trash Nazis use petty rules to leave mess

Telegraph:

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The government is to give councils the power to refuse to collect rubbish if home owners fail to abide by draconian rules which may include leaving bins in the right place, sticking to weight restrictions and following strict recycling policies.

Labour is quietly pushing the new rules through parliament without any debate after it proposed amendments to a 130-year-old law which has, until now, made it a statutory duty of local authorities to collect household waste.

There are fears that the changes to the law will lead to large increases in fly-tipping, bonfires of noxious substances and rat infestations around uncollected waste. Despite this, there will no reduction in council tax for home owners.

The Conservatives described the plans as "disgraceful", adding that bin men will now be able to use "any excuse not to empty your bin".

Many Labour MPs fear the changes will add to a growing backlash against the government which has seen them slump in the polls.

Ian Gibson, a Labour MP who sits on the parliamentary committee which is scrutinising the changes, said: "It is a British way of life to have your bins emptied once a week. Taking that away is like losing your birthright."

Phil Woolas, the environment minister, quietly added an amendment to section 46 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 earlier this month which now states: "A waste collection authority is not obliged to collect household waste that is placed for collection in contravention of a requirement under this section."

Town halls will be free to set their own rules on what constitutes a "contravention" of waste collection policies.

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Britain has become a trash police state where citizens have no redress for service that keeps shrinking to unrealistic levels to meet some commitment made by those unaccountable to the voters. The voters are given no route of recourse to an ever trashy environment in the name of saving the environment.

Comments

  1. Big Ugny10:10 AM

    So Phil Woollas has slipped this clause in, thinking it will be unnoticed.

    Not by me : if the council for whatever reason starts suddenly leaving my rubbish on the street I will say I've been "Woollased".

    It will serve him right if his name is turned, quite literally folks, into trash.

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