The Rubbish Police Are Coming To Your Bin
HEAR that rustling and grinding noise? It’s the sound of the “rubbish police”. No, not the Portuguese cops. This is the real rubbish police, and they’re coming to a wheelie bin near you.
“£110 FINE IF YOU OVERFILL A BIN,” announces the Mail’s front-page headline. Says the paper: “Families who break the bin rules and overfill will get a £110 fine… more than a drunken yob would receive…”
Unfair, no doubt. But would a drunken yob really bother to put his rubbish in a wheelie bin? More likely he’d chuck it in the street, or - worse – put his rubbish in your bin, or light it and stuff it though your letter box.
Householders who put too much rubbish in their bins face tougher punishments than shoplifters and drunken louts.
The question is: can a drunken lout or a shoplifter be a householder? Discuss…
August 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am
After the fine remains unpaid, do they face jail?
August 4th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Those bins are pretty unattractive.
I’d go for stainless steel, with perhaps a band of gunmetal blue…
August 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I have considered on occasion returning to the UK to live out my twilight years. Then I read something like this and it brings me to my senses.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Do they face jail for unpaid fines ? I thought that there weren’t anymore cells available in British prisons. Many prisoners being given early release to ease the problem.
Tougher punishments for people who put too much in a bin? Its PC attitudes gone bonkers.Isn’t the British government itself failing seriously where pollution controls are concerned?
If anyone should be doing time its the government for failing to reduce levels, and turning a blind eye to their own massive incompetence.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Wan’t to know where your carfully sorted rubbish ends up?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/sep/20/environment.china
Environmentally freindly Ha!!
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
It’s the drunkards and the thieves who are being released early from prison, in order to make space for householders who commit bin based attrocities!