Tax to rise if bin plans pushed through
2:06pm Sunday 18th November 2007
Comments (1)THE cost of clearing up dumped rubbish in Harrow soared by more than £300,000 last financial year, and a prospective Tory MP is warning this cost will increase if the Government pushes through new bin tax plans.
Dr Rachel Joyce, the prospective parliamentary candidate for Harrow West, has spoken out against Government plans to charge people using more bin bags, claiming it will increase incidents of fly-tipping, which rose by 1,500 per cent in Harrow last year.
She said: "Plans for bin taxes would harm the local environment and public health by leading to a further worsening of fly-tipping and backyard burning.
"The set-up and running costs of such a complex tax, installing microchips in every bin, will mean the overall burden of taxation will rise.
"Families in Harrow could now face the double whammy of higher council tax bills and new bin taxes.
"This, coupled with the poor grant settlement, mean that Harrow has been treated appallingly."
Plans under consideration at Westminster would see residents charged for every unsorted bag of rubbish they dispose of, in order to promote recycling.
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C S Friedlos, says...
9:58pm Sun 18 Nov 07
What a waste to carefully separate our rubbish for recycling just to see much of it dumped into the same bin to go for landfill or worse still exported to China to be 'Recycled'!! But can't you all see that much of our 'post consumer recycling' is the biggest con of our time!
By the time energy has been used to transport, clean and process our rubbish we might as well have made the stuff from scratch!
Paper recycling does not EVEN save trees (and the de-inking process during recycling produces one million tonnes of toxic sludge per year in the UK which is sent to landfill!) and the current value of one tonne of mixed household paper is just £3!
It is much better to REUSE glassware than to send it halfway round the country to be expensively remelted to make what we had anyway! (is that mad or what!) and we currently have a 'Green glass mountain' of wine bottles that cannot even be recycled because we import almost all of our wine. So this glass is being landfilled many miles from where it was collected or sent at our expense abroad.
And there are seven main kinds of plastics that must not be mixed or contaminated if they are to be successfully recycled. (Much plastic recycled is merely being 'downcycled' into other products which only really delays its journey to landfill or incineration).
Transporting plastic bottles is like carrying a truck load of balloons around the country.
How many more recycle lorries do we need?
One for glass?
One for paper?
One for plastic?
And even one to collect our compost (can we all not compost our own green waste at home?)
And finally one for our general waste?
I beg you to work it out for yourself.
This kind of recycling does not save energy, does not save resources and is just one giant CON!