The government’s garbage record

It seems that we are not meeting our EU quarters with the amount of rubbish we dispose of through landfills.

If we fail to meet our target the UK taxpayer could be faced with a £180m fine.

At a time that some local authorities are reducing the number of times they collect rubbish, without a reduction in council tax, the Government are seriously failing in their attempt to manage our huge mountains of rubbish.

It now appears the government wants to charge householders for the amount of rubbish they throw away in an attempt to reduce the amount of waste ending up in landfill, dubbed the ‘Pay as you throw’ rubbish tax.

When is the government going to wake up?

Everybody has witnessed the amount of unnecessary packaging applied by the major supermarkets. But is the government issuing a directive and stopping this? No.

Once again the taxpayer is the one getting it in the neck.

We, the British taxpayer, pay through the nose, our council tax bills. This includes the disposal of our waste. The local authorities and the government fail miserably at managing this and looks like missing EU targets that it agreed in Brussels in 1999.

The taxpayer is then going to folk out £180m to pay off the EU fine.

The taxpayer is then going to get charged a ‘Pay as you throw’ rubbish tax to dispose of our waste.

So basically, we are paying THREE times to do a job the government aren’t capable of doing efficiently.

Damn wasters!
 

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