should we pay 4 for our bins emptying?

Question

if they lower council tax u wont b better off would u

Answer 1

We have been paying it for years now..... it's called Council Tax , Community Charge or what ever! Just another thing that we have been paying for and now find we have to pay twice.......... where is the money going from my tax that has been used in the past for this service? ........ Just another idea from Gordon Brown to help the working classes.......... to keep them, poor and in their place!

Answer 2

I think we should get recycling free and the bins collection we should pay for.

However this would only work if companies cut down on all the unecessary packaging they put on goods and made more of it recyclable.

I also don't think it would result in a lowering of council tax....they would just use the money for something else.

Answer 3

We already pay for it in our Council Tax. What gets me though is that there is so much more stuff we could recycle but have no collection or facility for it. If there were facilities for these items I would use them and further reduce my rubbish! As it is when we forgot to put out our black bin once it still wasn't full after 4 weeks!

Answer 4

I think it would be the same they would find extra charges to give you for something else. Personally if my husband asked me to go to the council office and pay the council tax I would go shopping instead when it used to be rent and rates it was a few hundred quid a year council tax is treble that.

Answer 5

Helps people to think about what they're throwing away. Recycling can cut down your bill. Living abroad, I've got used to this. Waste paper is recycled, and collected once a week, non-deposit glass goes in the bottle bank. Aluminium drink cans and PET bottles go in special containers at the local supermarket. Other metal items, like old pans are collected every two months.
Garden refuse, dead bouquets of flowers and uncooked vegetable peelings go in the compost container, which is emptied once a week. The rest goes in the household rubbish. I have to buy special bags for this, and they're not cheap - about 70p. for a 35 litre bag.

Answer 6

It is already incorportated in our council tax and therefore the only reason they may lower that tax and charge us seperately is to charge us more. It is, in my opinion, a council responsibility. How much rubbish we create and how much recycling we do is more the responsibility of the individual and I think councils should be looking at incentives to encourage people in these areas rather than thinking how to charge us.

Answer 7

here we have to pay about 1 pound for a half sized black bin-bag. All paper plastic metal has to be recycled by me otherwise I have to pay much more if I just put it all in the rubbish. At first coming from England I hated it, but that was just me being lazy, now I recycle everything, but burn my paper on the fire.

Answer 8

Yes we should pay for our bins emptying, I for one don't want rats or mice in my house from stacks and stacks of overflowing bins and piled up rubbish because no one is doing the job anymore, what would we do with it, burn it in our gardens and cause even more pollution, thanks but I prefer mine taking away by the nice dustbin men we have in our town.

Answer 9

If your in UK you DO PAY if your already paying council tax and if you arent why not?

Answer 10

It already is, in your council tax