£1,000 fine for using wrong bin: Families face new crackdown over household waste

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 18th March 2010 | David Derbyshire

[Mount Athos]

Householders could be fined up to £1,000 if they fail to comply with complex new rules on refuse sorting.

Food scraps, tea bags and vegetable peelings thrown into the wrong dustbin could land them with hefty penalties under government plans to be unveiled today.

Families could end up with five different bins and receptacles - including compulsory slop buckets for food waste - and be forced to sift through rubbish for anything that can be recycled, reused or converted into electricity.

The proposals are the brainchild of environment secretary Hilary Benn

[OldArmy52]

Clearly, Liberals run the U.K.

[paul51]

The proposals are the brainchild of environment secretary Hilary Benn

Fire her ass and throw her in a bin.

[Irenic]

Pffft poop in the bin, it’s recyclable and green.

4 letter warnin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JXBOxJ-10

[jakerobins]

Watch out here comes the Green Police!.....Audi was dead on....Coming soon to the USA if Obama and his liberal whackjob friends get their way.....

[proud_yank]

I separate my refuse the following way: cardboard, used motor oil, everything else.

Cardboard goes in 55 gal drum, pour in some motor oil, light it. Then everything else goes in.

Its simple, easy to do, and decreases my carbon foot-print by reducing the number of runs to the landfill.

[Mister Muggles]

I’m going outside and light a stack of old tires on fire to celebrate this news./s

[proud_yank]

LOL That’s the spirit!!

That’s also a good Earth Day/Lenin Birthday festivity too.

[lmr]

Deplorable Healthcare, Big Brother everywhere and now this.

Living in the UK must almost seem like Prison to most...

[Pontiac]

Hey you Brits, I think its time to fertilize the Tree of Liberty.

[James C. Bennett]

Hillary Benn, the estranged daughter of Benny Hill?

[gleeaikin]

Gee, Great Britain has Hilary problems too?

[SmartInsight]

This is what happens when government has too much control over people, they even control how you throw out your trash.

[piasa]

Time to introduce a new holiday tradition of hanging Greens on city lamp posts.

[ntmxx]

This bring a new meaning to Euro-trash; now the populace has to compete with real garbage to get along socially.

[rawhide]

Hmmm? If you have a grudge against your neighbor, you could cause him all kinds of grief by putting the wrong items into his waste bins?

[Bernard]

My suburb of Chicago has a compliance officer fondly referred to as the "Sign Nazi", who is in charge of making sure storefront signs and commercial garbage storage locations are in compliance the village codes, so I could easily picture her going through garbage containers to ensure private citizen compliance.

Maybe the next step would be to require every resident to stand at attention at the curb while the Garbage Nazi reviews the containers.

[backhoe]

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Gee, Great Britain has Hilary problems too?

It’s a Hilary infestation.

You know, named after the guy who climbed Mt. Everest!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

This is what happens when government has too much control over people, they even control how you throw out your trash.

It isn't government. It is 85% of your neighbors who will see to it that you follow the guidelines "for the good of the planet."