More on Redwood on Rubbish
Remember that part in the earlier post about the threat of an additional bin tax? Well, a little chat with Trixy and a slice of Googling and I found something from letsrecycle.com from 2006:-
Dr Jackson also supported moves to charge householders a visible fee for the collection of waste. She said: This means that the householder has a much more active interest in seeing how the service is managed than when the cost is buried in the general local tax.”
She warned of a backlash among residents over charging, but called on Conservative councils to “lead the way” in wielding “green sticks”.
That’s Dr Caroline Jackson, Conservative MEP for the South of England, who was the rapporteur for the EU parliament on this bill. Funny, I don’t remember the Conservatives commenting about this at the time.
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It’s all complete nonsense!.
Yes there is a cost to waste collection, that could be dealt with by adding (say) 1% tax to the cost of new goods (or whatever the typical cost of disposal is, certainly not much more than that, in my scenario VAT will go, of course) and it is up to councils to then find the most cost-effective way of getting rid of it (be that composting, incineration, landfill, recycling, whatever) Once we get rid of landfill tax (one of the stupidest taxes wot is) we will soon see which is most cost effective.
Mark,
I wouldn’t have a problem with a costed landfill tax - in other words, if the council have to buy extra acreage for rubbish, and use more fuels in their trucks, then people should pay.
The cost of land (especially low cost land that you need for landfill) is so small, relatively, that trying to calculate it comes up with some daft numbers - my own calculations (which are costed unfavourably) are 8p/extra bag.
Recycling is mostly a waste of money. Of all household waste, aluminium is about the only thing where it’s cost effective.
My workings here.
Do you mean 8p per full bin-liner?