It Seems That In Broxbourne In Hertfordshire

and in Wokingham, Berkshire soon to follow, the 1984 style bin police are on the march, families face being rationed to 80 bags of rubbish a year, the scheme is already in use with one council, is being introduced by another and is under consideration by up to 180 more, our masters in Brussels have told us to meet their demands to cut our waste, in response Wokingham officials have told residents that 75-litre sacks will be given to each household and anything not left in them will not be collected,

residents will have a weekly recycling collection limited to cans, paper and card, plastic bottles and aerosols, plastic packaging, tinfoil packaging and glass including bottles must either go with the general waste or be taken to recycling points, green waste pick-ups cost an extra £60 a year, the council, which charges a Band D council tax of £1,462 a year, has told residents it will save £922,000 a year under the new system, there will be no local consultation before it is introduced next April, nothing like being in a democracy is there?

but all is not lost, in a move designed to increase man made global warming, ( I naively thought recycling was a way to reduce it!), a council spokesman said yesterday that those who cannot keep to their quota will have to drive to municipal tips to get rid of their rubbish, also rather sneakily this action it does not show up on our masters quoter's of rubbish recycling, nice one!