[InvisibleChurch]

[null and void]

Expect more fly tipping.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Laughing dog is amused.

[Fox_Mulder77]

They restrict households to a limited amount of garbage and refuse to pick up more

[Sig Sauer P220]

We have a way to take out trash. Its called elections. Unfortunately, the trash rarely ever gets taken out.

[Think free or die]

"Britain may begin experimenting with programs under which households would pay a "garbage bill," similar to an electricity or water bill, according to how much garbage they throw out."

Sounds like a great way to encourage trash dumping along roadsides and elsewhere.

[Gorzaloon]

Along with the rest of Europe, Britain has been ordered to reduce the waste it puts in landfills -- by 2015, to 50 percent of what is was in 1995 -- or face untold millions of dollars in European Union fines.

I have a better idea. The UK still has an Air Force for the moment.

Nuke Brusells to the bedrock, and repeat every year till the Global Rule Delusions stop. How can such a thing have ever happened or gotten this far?

[Santino Sonny Corleone]

what a mess they have created. Once they ran the mighty British Empire now they can’t even collect garbage

[Creeping Incrementalism]

“Britain may begin experimenting with programs under which households would pay a “garbage bill,” similar to an electricity or water bill”

So in England, they don’t have to pay for garbage service? Seems that from the comments in this thread, many of the posters don’t have to pay one either—that seems strange. A private company comes to take away your garbage, so why would you not have to pay them for it?

I once worked for the local gov’t recycling agency here in the S.F. Bay Area. The idea that we were running out of landfill space and that we had to recycle 50% of our garbage was assumed to be a given, with no justification even attempted. A good portion of the people working there were dogmatic environmentalists who left little room in their thought for practicality. They were jealous of any municipalties that could fine people for not recycling. They all drove to work too, despite the fact that they claimed to be environmentalists and public transportation wasn’t overly far away (about a 15 minute walk from the communter train station). This was 2000 and global warming wasn’t as hyped as it is now, but I’m sure they were all aware of it. Their environmental convictions were enough to make them want to fine other people for not following them, but not enough to make my co-workers do anything to inconvenience themselves.

[Rebelbase]

“Other forms of punishment include receiving a “sticker of shame” that informs the public a resident has violated local garbage laws.”

My city has a trash inspector that rides around ahead of the collection trucks randomly checking for recyclables in the garbage and vice versa.

My neighbors had a handful of weeds on top of their garbage and received a page sized, orange, violation sticker plastered to their can. The garbage truck didn’t empty their can that week either.