Posted on 12/06/2009 11:09:07 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Wheelie bins with microchips which measure how much rubbish they contain could be introduced to make householders cut down on their waste.
Alternatively, under plans outlined by council leaders today, people could be charged according to the size of their bin or of their rubbish bags which they would buy from the local authority.
The Local Government Association denied the plans would be a stealth tax to raise extra cash for councils.
folks will just start to not use the bins.
duh
I wonder what the sides of the roadways are going to look like if this goes into effect? I can envision trash all over the place to avoid the tax.
News story from 2011. An unprecedented spike in illegal dumping has occured in the country side.
They want people to live as serf/peasants/slaves. Consume nothing, produce no waste, die early. It’s amazing people can’t see where this is headed.
bttt
LOL at you guys. I was thinking something similar but...... especially trash on the roadways....... LOL
Will government never learn?
Or put it in someone else’s bin.
Coming soon to a state near you.
How will this deal with public trash receptacles in front of stores and so on. Will they just disappear? Will John Law arrest the store owners if they remove them? If they stay, will homeowners stuff a lot more of what would have been household trash into them?
Shrug. Why do the people of the UK keep voting for government that does this to them?
That way the tax is still paid - just not by the bin-filler.
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You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it’d be a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the city dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the dump saying, “Closed on Thanksgiving.” And we had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn’t find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw our’s down.
They'll fine you for that. Check this out, it's already happening over there:
Excepting Alice.
This may not be as bad as you would think. In my city this type of program has been enacted for some commercial operations. A good friend of mine who owns a restaurant (which obviously generated a good deal of trash - not his cooking, just the nature of the business) and we have discussed the implications of the change. Their garbage costs have actually gone down - no longer renting a dumpster that never gets full, they are charged only for the volume of garbage generated. Garbage is bagged and closed with a prepaid sticker which is picked up daily. No dumpster blocking the alley and attracting vermin or dumpster-divers, lower cost, and better service. Look before you leap, but don’t automatically assume change is negative. I would also point out that the nature of garbage collection is hardly a indicator of “liberty”. A tad bit extreme, don’t you think?
This is a big part(Not all) of the reason why:
Have you seen this reported anywhere? Is it in the american media? Is it in most of britain’s media?
How will people fight against something they don’t even know it’s happening?
Totalitarianism is creeping up their necks and nobody is informing them of it as it happens. But one day they just wake up and “hey, when did this happen?”
This is why the media is listed in the constitution. They are supposed to be watchdogs. SUPPOSED to be anyways. *SIGH* I can’t express it enough how bad I feel for our british friends over there and what they have to go through.
They are essentially fighting an invisible enemy. Not even fighting......... they are being dominated by an invisible enemy and nobody in their press stands up and says enough.
He says with a gun pointed to his head.
Yes, garbage collection IS a measure of liberty. Just one small one, but a valid measurement non-the-less.
Many of our current collection laws and regulations (those difficult terms again, laws and regulations) were written in the sanctuary of the Church of Global Warming, publlic support generated thru the efforts of State Media, and passed by worshipers.
Now even non-believers are bound by such.
Wow - too much caffeine?
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