Will the EU force you to separate rubbish into five containers?

[NotAllThere]

We have general rubbish that we pay for per sack, with free recycling of bottles/jars, cardboard, paper, metal and compostable material. In order to reduce costs, you naturally recycle, but you're not forced to.

Seems like a good approach to me - but then we're not EU.

Someone calculated that, since much of our general waste is incinerated and electricity is generated from that, if we didn't recycle paper and cardboard, our electricity bills would be reduced by more than the cost of paying for the disposal.

[Sysman]

We have general rubbish that we pay for per sack, with free recycling of bottles/jars, cardboard, paper, metal and compostable material. In order to reduce costs, you naturally recycle, but you're not forced to.

Seems like a good approach to me - but then we're not EU.

Someone calculated that, since much of our general waste is incinerated and electricity is generated from that, if we didn't recycle paper and cardboard, our electricity bills would be reduced by more than the cost of paying for the disposal.

Did you mean increased there?

[Gittins Gal]

In some of the European countries in which I've worked rubbish and recycling has been collected from a central collection point. Each street or block normally has one.

I'm not totally against this - it wold stop my driveway from looking like Steptoe's yard what with all those different coloured boxes.

I'd expect a pretty hefty reduction in my council tax for all the extra legwork though.