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NOW A £110 FINE FOR OVER-FILLING YOUR BIN

Bin over-fillers face hefty fines

Monday August 4,2008

By Gabriel Milland

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

Official guidance from the Department of the Environment to local councils says they must impose fines of “not less than £75” and upto £110 on taxpayers who disobey rubbish rules.

The crackdown from the so-called “Talibin” will apply to virtually all UK households.

Anyone caught leaving their wheelie-bin lid even slightly open, placing bins or rubbish out on the day before collection or putting their bin in the wrong place could get a fixed penalty or end up in court.

Tory spokesman Eric Pickles yesterday accused Labour ofcreating “an army of municipal bin bullies”.

He warned they were targeting “law-abiding families with massive fines while professional criminals get the soft touch. It is clear Whitehall bureaucrats are instructing town halls to target householders with fines for minor breaches.

“Yet with the slow death of weekly collections and shrinking bins, it is increasingly hard for families to dispose of their
rubbish responsibly.

“It is fundamentally unfair that householders are now getting hammered with larger fines than shoplifters get for stealing.”
Local councils previously could decide penalties themselves.

But the new “Fly-Capture Enforcement” manual, produced by the Department of the Environment, instructs them that breaking the rules on “waste receptacles” must mean a fine from £75 to £110. Most fines should be £100, it adds, warning that councils have a duty to pursue people who refuse to pay.

** **Should we be fined for over filling our bins?**

**Are the government punishing Britain for their mistakes?**

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

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

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