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And vote it down. I am tired of the overreaching of government. That said, try and reduce your waste. I have about one bag every two weeks.
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and reduce your waste. I have about one bag every two weeks.
I produce much the same quantity as you, but I have virtually no food packaging waste in my own bins (I tend to eat out more often than not -- my local pub does full meals for £3.99). It is young families that are going to be hit hard by this though. Nappies, soiled clothing, and the ridiculous amount of packaging on children's toys and food, etc, add 2 extra bags per child per week. For an average family that is about 10 bags every fortnight (our rubbish is not collected weekly). The supermarkets should be responsible for reducing the packaging waste. There is simply no need to have fruit and veg wrapped in three different kinds of plastic (and therefore unrecyclable). Stick them in a rack and give us paper bags. I bet it would cost them less too.
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Maximilien wrote:
Normally, when a city wants to do something like that, they need to offer a free recycling and composting program to balance the reduction in trash.
You'd think so, wouldn't you. Not here though. We pay extra for the privilege of having a container of rotting food in our kitchens that is emptied only 24 times a year. (We also had to pay for the special container.) Having maggots crawling around in your kitchen is a great way of making people compost more. :rolleyes: The solution is to spray oven cleaner in the compost bins to kill the maggots and stop the nausiating smell from making people stop in the street to vomit on your drive, but I doubt that does a lot of good to the compost they make (and charge us for) from it. As for recycling, I have been waiting for six years now for my recycling box as the local council will not collect it unless it is placed in one (to ensure that people don't recycle too much and cost them extra fees). I chase it up with them every couple of months but have pretty much resigned to the fact I will always need to drive down to the recycling centre ten miles away and do it all myself. Which raises another cost issue because I am having to us a room in my house to hold bottles, cardboard and plastic until there is enough to justify making a car journey. Recycling and composting here is every bit seen as a way to raise extra money and nothing about saving the environment. We already pay for our rubbish through our extortionate local council tax. Just like we already pay for the number of miles we drive in our car (fuel tax), but they'll still introduce a pay-by-the-mile charge on top of that, and charge us VAT on it as well. If you complain they they play the "why do you hate the environment?" card to make your feel guilty and shut up. Nothing like blackmail and intimidation to protect your extortion racket...
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I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkThe paperwork, electricity, bureaucrats, etc needed to run the extra tax are actually creating more pollution. If you really cared about the environment you'd work to shut them down by dismantling the nanny state. :cool:
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