Recycling Waste Are Councils and government hitting the wrong people ?

Question

Time and time again I read in UK papers that the local (Gestapo) council have dragged someone to court for not putting waste in the right bin or having to much waste.
Why do they not get together and hopund the Compamies who over package

Our bunch claim to have a machine which can differentiate between the various recyclable waste items but give a list of things it will and will not accept. So we have three bins Garden waste once a fortnight, Recyclable wate once a fortnight and rubbish once a week. strange my purchaes have not altered but I feel I am throwing greater quanties out. I am told that 80% is recyclable but in fact they are collecting much less

Answer 1

I work for a council. And they don,t recycle their waste. And and bottles what over-spill the bottle banks. The street cleaning dept. clear them up and send them to landfill!

They have been dragging their feet about recycling, now it's a mad rush to comply with the EU mandate.

I took a drain pipe out of a skip going to landfill. For my allotment. I was told to put it back, "it's council property" so it went to landfill at the cost to the tax payer. But they quick to say reuse, recycle and save water. I would have done all 3 and saved on landfill space and tax. But with idiots in charge, who have never worked in the real world, and would be able to either and bent councilor's. Nothing will change while everyone pays up their taxes. We should seize power from them.

Answer 2

DO NOT START ME ON THIS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took a load of stuff to the tip today which is not supposed to go in my collected bin (according to every leaflet sent out by Gestapo Council) Guess where these things ended up???? Thats right - in the same huge containers as the stuff I CAN put in my bin.

I came home furious - wondering why I bothered.

Answer 3

Money is being made hand over fist ,at our expence, the tax payer ,why should we pay twice for the same job,and where is this money going i would like to no,no first prize for guessing where ,the bloody governament again ,why do we sit back and let them rob us time after time ,are we such a weak country,abought time we all stood up to be counted ,am sick of the **** they throw at us all ,and whats more do the governament think we are all stupid ,they are an insult to our intelgence ,and yes i find i have more packaging to re-food,and more crap through my letter box ,wonder why ??

Answer 4

My point exactly. In my opinion, they are not spending money on this recycling scheme.
I'd like to see the return of weekly collections, too. I don't mind a smaller wheelie bin, if it oculd be emptired more often.

Answer 5

i think of that's a good theory in theory, to grant rebates to those who form and recycle their waste and to cost people who refuse to do this. although, all of us comprehend what occurs while councils impose expenses for waste disposal; scumbags start up fly tipping everywhere and it expenses us all extra. On stability, that's in all probability terrific to make waste disposal as elementary as conceivable and to make all expenses by way of council tax and enterprise expenses.

Answer 6

Hi,we take all our stuff to the skip.Its easier has they have different containers so nearly everything gets recycled.I think they should hammer super markets they use way to much
packaging.

Answer 7

They have to do both. Only with cooperation from all parties will anything be accomplished.