The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs And The Welsh Assembly Have Announced Today,

fines of up to £1,000 in a new crackdown over household waste,

yes those nice people headed by environment secretary Hilary Benn, wants to banish all food, cans, paper and glass from landfill sites to increase recycling rates and slash greenhouse gas emissions, (the proposals are her brainchild), residents who persistently flout the rules by not sorting rubbish properly or refusing to recycle would be fined, food scraps, tea bags and vegetable peelings thrown into the wrong dustbin could land you with hefty penalties under government plans to be unveiled today, families could end up with five different bins and receptacles - including compulsory slop buckets for food waste - and be forced to sift through rubbish for anything that can be recycled, reused or converted into electricity, slop buckets, already used to collect food scraps in millions of homes, would be extended to the whole country, adding another bin to the three or four already parked in many gardens and drives, Gary Porter, chairman of the Local Government Association Environment Board, said: 'Defra must not create a situation where every householder in the country is forced to have a separate bin for their food waste', well Gary I am sorry but you are too late, as the flyer at the top of this post says, 'The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs And The Welsh Assembly Have Announced Today,' just glad I did not vote for them! as an aside over here in Pattaya our bins are emptied roughly 3 times a week, nothing is sorted by the house holder, everything is taken including cut down trees and bushes, the cost? 40 baht a month, about 80 pence.