New waste tax

Mrs._M_7

We now know that the cost of recycling is filtering down from the EU, through the Government, through Local councils to the Council Tax Payer. The council tax payer will pick up the bill and the local councils will be the losers in the blame game.

If the Government installs this recycling tax, it is a tax that everyone must pay. Even those on benefits. Any exceptions will defeat the object. People who don’t pay anything towards the service will make little effort to recycle. There are millions of individuals paying nothing for services at the moment.

The Government would do well to remember that discrimination of any kind is supposed to be illegal.

Until all the facilities for recycling are installed (some plastics and tetra packs are non recyclable) this tax should be postponed’.

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In some Japanese cities the rubbish is collected every day. The citizens are asked to separate out their rubbish each day ready for collection. Everything is clearly marked with a recycling symbol, to make sure the customer knows what is what. It cost them nothing for collection.

How? Well the rubbish collection is put out to tender. Private companies bid for the pleasure of collecting your rubbish. They

actually pay the Municipality. They then, in turn, made their profit from the recycling of plastics, glass, paper etc. Why is the same system not possible in this country? It would ease

some of the burden on the council tax payer and help to keep the

streets cleaner.

Where there is muck there is money and the councils should, perhaps, be cashing in

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