Reply to: Oh Dear: Rubbish bag 'tax' to encourage recycling

[vista]

A new plan B

Does it work on bodies?

Come in handy if you've got a spare "Jack the hat McVittie" or two to dispose of... and the pigs are full.

Yep thats what they're designed for animal carcass'


Body disposal, asylum control 1001 uses ;-)

[vista]

Google

Not a good idea. I had some Laburnums (speeling?), chopped them down. Now this is a very poisonous plant, so thought, in my deep wisdom, that burning something so nasty on site was the most sensible course of action. No, some git from across the way goes and calls the environmental health because I'm "burning tires" he says.

Environmental health officer turns up and acts the civil savant asshole part.

Said "Yes, yes, won't happen again", and later paid someone down the pub to smash his windows, kick the crap out of him, and set fire to his garden furniture. Fscking busy bodies.

threaded in "yet another reason for leaving the UK" mode

Did a google and you can buy approved smokeless, smell free incinerators that will cope with just about everything I need to get rid of on a daily/weekly basis except the metal bits of course.

[hyperD]

This is why I remove all the address labels from my bin bag...

A shredder is your friend... you just can't be too paranoid...

I thought your razor sharp crosscut teeth might suffice?

[threaded]

Not a good idea. I had some Laburnums (speeling?), chopped them down. Now this is a very poisonous plant, so thought, in my deep wisdom, that burning something so nasty on site was the most sensible course of action. No, some git from across the way goes and calls the environmental health because I'm "burning tires" he says.

Environmental health officer turns up and acts the civil savant asshole part.

Said "Yes, yes, won't happen again", and later paid someone down the pub to smash his windows, kick the crap out of him, and set fire to his garden furniture. Fscking busy bodies.

threaded in "yet another reason for leaving the UK" mode

[vista]

Reading nutters lead the way

This sounds like a good idea to me. Except that:

1. It should replace the Council Tax element for the binmen, not supplement it

2. People will stick their rubbish amongst other people's to avoid paying

3. People will fly-tip to avoid paying

4. How do they weigh each bin's-worth of rubbish to record the charges?

5. How do they collect the charges?

6. What happens when people dispute the charges?

I see a fiasco here that will make the Tax Credit system look like a smoothly run operation.

In Reading the council is going to stop picking up rubbish weekly and do it fortnightly, many people have bitched that rotting material will cause health scares and that they'll be an massive increase in flytipping - risking big fines.

Whilst its fun to predict the worst I'm off to B&Q to buy a huge bin and look forward to seeing the different colours various waste materials produce when burned - I'm sure that as this peaceful fineless practise gains popularity that the NHS will easily be able to deal with the f v ckwitts that decide to burn pressurized containers and other equally dangerous materials, I think that the smog created could well rival that of california and will look very attractive as it shrouds the town at night time.

[Joe Black]

Pair of big scissors...

Straight cut then, I presume?

[DaveB]

Pair of big scissors...

He turns the paper in to Giant Alien Lizard paper chains

[Joe Black]

What sort do you have zeitghost, straight?, crosscut?...an S6 compliant one? ( )

Mine's almost given up the ghost so I'm looking for a new one over the next few weeks.

What can I say, shredding's fun.

[threaded]

It's actually quite a good way to get-yer-own-back on an annoying neighbour: go in their bins, pull out some letters, envelopes etc. with their name and address, mix with some rubbish, fly tip the mix, wait for a result...

[Fleetwood]

How they figured out it was him God only knows, rummaging through everything until they found an envelope with his name on it?

Don't laugh, that is exactly how they do it in Belgium. Honest.

[Joe Black]

Not sure how they are going to work this out for communal flats.

A guy I know here - lives in a group of flats - actually got done last year for this sort of thing, not separating his rubbish.

How they figured out it was him God only knows, rummaging through everything until they found an envelope with his name on it?

Still, fair cop. A quick €100 added to his communal tax.

No doubt coming to the UK by EU directive soon.

[DaveB]

Not long now until even our faeces are weighed and disposal charged for, with a 'windfall tax' if you had a curry the night before.

Douglas Adams suggested that one some time ago

"The fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from you body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt."

[mcquiggd]

Not sure how they are going to work this out for communal flats. Probably use those spy planes they use to search for people who have ornamental borders and garden gnomes for extra council tax.

Not long now until even our faeces are weighed and disposal charged for, with a 'windfall tax' if you had a curry the night before.

[Fleetwood]

Bring in woolly,fuzzy, generally incomprehensible tax-legislation and retroactively apply it to things that aren't doing their "fair share" of moving.

[Dundeegeorge]

Nearly right.

Presumably people like the Rochdale Swamp Donkey and her excessive brood of future spongers will not have to pay this extra tax and that it is only 'fair' for all those rich middle class b@stards to pick up the tab.

I fookin hate this government. They have one approach to everything. If it moves, tax it. If it doesn't then tax it - just to be on the safe side. Feckers!

If it moves, tax it.
If it doesn't move, deem that it has moved and tax it.