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Now a £110 fine for over-filling your bin

MINISTERS have ordered people who overfill their bins to be punished more severely than shoplifters, drug users and dangerous drivers.

MIFF

14.08.08, 6:56pm

I believe that's probably trying to display the idiocity of this law. Your bin may not be full but still be open. Perhaps a pensioner could not rip tough cardboard apart?

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

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REGARDING THE BIN SHOWN IN THE PICTURE.

14.08.08, 3:41pm

There is a cardboard box with lots of fresh air around it holding the bin lid open. If you compact litter properly, it's amazing how much you can put in.

• Posted by: Harveymiff • Report Comment

IF THE COUNCILS.....

14.08.08, 11:39am

...emptied the bins weekly like they used to, the bins wouldn't be overflowing would they?

• Posted by: Disgruntled • Report Comment

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BEEF SANDWICH

11.08.08, 1:30pm

Gordon McBroon is desperately trying to salvage some *Brownie* points here isn't he?

Giving people their own money back? What a joke.

How much is this fiasco going to cost to administer that is my question. Perhaps he is keeping on the right side of the civil servants, giving them work and creating extra jobs to pay this £150 out to people who don't need the money.... it should go purely to people who are struggling to afford to pay their bills, low income families, the disabled and pensioners.

I wonder if he will come up with a 'bin fine' payment for people who can't pay that as well?

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Mickey Mouse could run the country better than this lot.

• Posted by: SandieL • Report Comment

NOW BROWN IS TALKING ABOUT A £150 FUEL BILL BRIBE

11.08.08, 9:40am


It seems that Robin Hood is alive and well and living in 10 Downing Street.

First Labour issues a decree that we all get fined £110 for putting out too much rubbish and then they hand back £150 in the form of a fictitious winter fuel payment. Net benefit = £40.

Labour is just juggling around with the same money. Its al done for impression. At the end of the day we all end up back where we first started. Poor.



• Posted by: beefsandwich • Report Comment

A LOT OF THINGS ARE OVER-FILLED. TOILETS FOR ONE.

10.08.08, 9:26am

What I mean is - this country is getting so full of it. Years ago we did'nt have so many childish men and women as these that I cross paths with each day. Full of pomposity if there is a bit of authority going with the job, stuffed with self importance if an all female environment is prevelant. "No country for an old man"?. No country for any real man. If my wife could have coped better with higher temperatures, I would have got out years ago.

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

WE NEED CHANGE.

09.08.08, 3:26pm

I'm with June61 on this. It seems everything that i knew growing up has changed to the point that i barely recognise the Britain i once held true and was proud to be a part of. I have never known such blatant misleading and financial suffering for people trying to get by in life as i have today. We seem to have a government that puts outsiders before the indigenous people in the UK. Am i xenophobic? Probably, but am as xenophobic as our government who seem to put other people before our own to the point where they seem not to care? I think not.
At what point will we see change and who will bring it?
Everything we need in life goes up in price yet wages stay the same and quality of living and work goes down.
This new policing on our rubbish brings into light another example of how central and local government use the typical ' tax is the answer' attitude rather than actually doing something about it.
It hasn't been that long ago since the media brought up the issues of council taxes and what they are used for. We are told that certain local government offices say they are just above the red on balancing the books yet these same local governments have millions of pounds in 'savings' that they refuse to use and they believe the council taxes that are paid from homes are reasonable.
We need serious and beneficial change in order to get this country sorted out and as soon as we get someone who is genuine and will make such changes, i'll be there with voting papers in hand.

• Posted by: Chomerly • Report Comment

NOW A £110 FINE FOR OVER-FILLING YOUR BIN

08.08.08, 2:53pm

I think it is time people stood up to this so called Goverment. This Goverment is running this country into the ground. Greed is overtaking the Britiish values. We cannot afford to live let alone pay even more for rubbish to be removed. Different councils charge different rates, some people have recycling facilities, others do not, so as not to overfill bins people are now fly tipping. Rats are having a holiday. Can we please have a Politician that is true to his words, stand up for the people's rights , people born and bred here , that are suffering for being British. I am sure they would win votes hands down, as there is no competition.

• Posted by: June61 • Report Comment

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OVER FILLING-THE BIN?

08.08.08, 11:25am

More like over-filling the trousers of the council.

• Posted by: Harveymiff • Report Comment

REFUSE COLLECTION

07.08.08, 8:55pm

What right have the Councils to charge people for overfilling their bins? What do we pay Council Tax for? If the Councils want more recycling and less bin collections then reduce our Council Tax accordingly.

I have just read in our local paper that ECC are spending a small fortune on extending a 'park and ride' scheme, but they can't afford to repair the badly potholed roads. These Councils want a bomb up their bums, they are really taking the proverbial.

• Posted by: lorna69 • Report Comment

WHEN HAS IT BEEN

07.08.08, 6:48pm

A preserve of the police to enforce civil law?

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

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WHO MADE IT LAW TO FINE OVER-FILLED BINS?

07.08.08, 10:49am

Surely a law where a fine is required must be passed by some authority. Ie: Parliament.
Who passes this law then?

There has been no law passed just another dictate from another clueless minister.

If the Police did their job properly and patrolled our streets and enforced the law of the land then there would be no need for town hall Nazis to hand out fines for anything and everything. As it is now the police are dedicated to harassing motorists and victims of crime.

• Posted by: fifthcrusade • Report Comment

MORE GARBAGE!

06.08.08, 8:46pm


If people can..try burning stuff that will burn. Personally when my bin was out the front on collecton day I'd be more concerned of somebody dropping their 'doggy do' in the bin. They'll definately 'contaminate' it then.

• Posted by: wiggins • Report Comment

RUBBISH PILING UP

06.08.08, 8:37pm

I have just read the comment about the four families living in the Victorian house,I think its disgusting too.
Why doesn't the guy who's throwing all the rubbish out,sofas etc phone the council and ask them to come and collect it.

• Posted by: jenny60l • Report Comment

RECYCLE

06.08.08, 8:26pm

The majority do recycle,but some councils do not make it easy, we have only one small blue recycle bin which is emptied once a month,I could fill it each week,I end up with recycle stuff all over the place and then when its emptied i fill it up straight away.It needs to be emptied at least every two weeks.
My regular garbage bin is emptied every week,sometimes i leave it for two weeks.We do not have a green bin as yet.
But there are only two of us, families will have a lot more garbage.
I wrote to the local council telling them how good the Australian scheme was and now they are promising to bring it in,which will be great.
In Australia we had the regular small wheelie bins emptied every week.the large recycle bin emptied every two weeks and the green garden bin emptied every two weeks,this worked extremely well.Large families could have two of the small waste bins if they wanted.
And the council tax (rates) are about a third or less than what we have to pay here.
What are our councils doing with all this huge!! amount of money?

• Posted by: jenny60l • Report Comment

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