the announcement this week of the first council to bring in a bin tax being Bristol City, it is presenting its scheme as a reward for recyclers, with cash payments to homes that leave out less rubbish and of course no penalties for those that leave out to much, (which as I hinted in the blog was a little bit over the rainbow),
well boy was I wrong! more than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents, worse still no body knows about till now, yesterday, research by the Big Brother Watch campaign group showed that the use of chipped bins has quietly spread over the past year, in March 2009, a survey based on Freedom of Information inquiries showed there were 42 councils which used bins with microchips, but the latest check, also based on FOI requests, put the number of authorities with electronic bins at 68 - one in five of all those that collect household rubbish, Alex Deane of Big Brother Watch, said: 'The number of local councils placing microchips in bins is increasing, despite the fact that only one of them has volunteered to trial the Government's pay-as-you-throw scheme'
Tory local government spokesman Caroline Spelman said: 'Labour Ministers are secretly planning to roll out bin taxes across the country after the election if Gordon Brown can cling to power, 'The Government have already forced through bin tax laws and have been funding the bin technology to collect the taxes.'
to counter this a spokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: 'There are no Government plans to introduce microchips in bins,'
however, in 2008 nearly 100 councils ran investigations into the contents of their residents' bins, in some cases to check on what rubbish they dump and in others to try to obtain information on their incomes and lifestyles, bit of a tricky one this one, I mean just who do you believe?
Saturday 6 March 2010
A Few Posts Ago I Mention Micro Chips In Bins,
to weigh your rubbish,
the announcement this week of the first council to bring in a bin tax being Bristol City, it is presenting its scheme as a reward for recyclers, with cash payments to homes that leave out less rubbish and of course no penalties for those that leave out to much, (which as I hinted in the blog was a little bit over the rainbow),
well boy was I wrong! more than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents, worse still no body knows about till now, yesterday, research by the Big Brother Watch campaign group showed that the use of chipped bins has quietly spread over the past year, in March 2009, a survey based on Freedom of Information inquiries showed there were 42 councils which used bins with microchips, but the latest check, also based on FOI requests, put the number of authorities with electronic bins at 68 - one in five of all those that collect household rubbish, Alex Deane of Big Brother Watch, said: 'The number of local councils placing microchips in bins is increasing, despite the fact that only one of them has volunteered to trial the Government's pay-as-you-throw scheme'
Tory local government spokesman Caroline Spelman said: 'Labour Ministers are secretly planning to roll out bin taxes across the country after the election if Gordon Brown can cling to power, 'The Government have already forced through bin tax laws and have been funding the bin technology to collect the taxes.'
to counter this a spokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: 'There are no Government plans to introduce microchips in bins,'
however, in 2008 nearly 100 councils ran investigations into the contents of their residents' bins, in some cases to check on what rubbish they dump and in others to try to obtain information on their incomes and lifestyles, bit of a tricky one this one, I mean just who do you believe?
the announcement this week of the first council to bring in a bin tax being Bristol City, it is presenting its scheme as a reward for recyclers, with cash payments to homes that leave out less rubbish and of course no penalties for those that leave out to much, (which as I hinted in the blog was a little bit over the rainbow),
well boy was I wrong! more than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents, worse still no body knows about till now, yesterday, research by the Big Brother Watch campaign group showed that the use of chipped bins has quietly spread over the past year, in March 2009, a survey based on Freedom of Information inquiries showed there were 42 councils which used bins with microchips, but the latest check, also based on FOI requests, put the number of authorities with electronic bins at 68 - one in five of all those that collect household rubbish, Alex Deane of Big Brother Watch, said: 'The number of local councils placing microchips in bins is increasing, despite the fact that only one of them has volunteered to trial the Government's pay-as-you-throw scheme'
Tory local government spokesman Caroline Spelman said: 'Labour Ministers are secretly planning to roll out bin taxes across the country after the election if Gordon Brown can cling to power, 'The Government have already forced through bin tax laws and have been funding the bin technology to collect the taxes.'
to counter this a spokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: 'There are no Government plans to introduce microchips in bins,'
however, in 2008 nearly 100 councils ran investigations into the contents of their residents' bins, in some cases to check on what rubbish they dump and in others to try to obtain information on their incomes and lifestyles, bit of a tricky one this one, I mean just who do you believe?
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