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[Cookie]

Cookie wrote:
Landfill Tax has been on a rising scale for a few years now. This is one of the reasons your council tax goes up.

Recycle more though and your council pays less landfill tax, simple.


We pay the council to do that why should we sort stuff out into seperate boxes/containers etc?.

True, although I'm sure we could all do a little more. It's your money after all.

Landfill tax is used to increase the cost of waste disposal so other means of treatment and diversion become relatively cost effective.

The fact is though that we don't spend nearly enough on recycling. I think the germans pay three times as much as we do.

[land_of_bo]

Landfill Tax has been on a rising scale for a few years now. This is one of the reasons your council tax goes up.

Recycle more though and your council pays less landfill tax, simple.

We pay the council to do that why should we sort stuff out into seperate boxes/containers etc?.

I thought the council are just paid to collect and dispose of our stuff, not sort it as well? When you go to the dump you put things in seperate skips don't you? Where's the difference with household rubbish?

We now have 3 bins (Mendip council). A brown one for all food and compostable stuff, a black one for recycleable that wont compost (glass etc) and then a normal bin for other stuff that doesn't fit the other 2 categories.

[Fred Elliot]

Landfill Tax has been on a rising scale for a few years now. This is one of the reasons your council tax goes up.

Recycle more though and your council pays less landfill tax, simple.

We pay the council to do that why should we sort stuff out into seperate boxes/containers etc?.

I thought the council are just paid to collect and dispose of our stuff, not sort it as well? When you go to the dump you put things in seperate skips don't you? Where's the difference with household rubbish?


Refuse to pay council tax and fly tip everything !!!!

 :mooney:

We now have 3 bins (Mendip council). A brown one for all food and compostable stuff, a black one for recycleable that wont compost (glass etc) and then a normal bin for other stuff that doesn't fit the other 2 categories.

[spacey]

A little birdie tells me that our own Swindon Council pay for Kosovans,etc to get taxi's to and fro (job interviews, etc), mobile phones and also suitable clothes for job interviews!

This conversation started when he said that someone he knows had to sell his car to pay for a private operation for his mother, because the NHS waiting list was huge. 3 Kosovans came round with a cheque for the car from Swindon Borough Council. He obviously queried this with the council and they confirmed this was the case, and they agreed to buy them the car as it worked out cheaper than to keep paying for their taxi's everywhere.

To be fair, I am not 100% sure if this is truthful, or even accurate (it is only what I've been told, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

Has anyone else heard similar stories?

Stop the world, I wanna get off.

 Yeah, I heard that the council have employed hit squads to terrorise pensioners out of their homes so they can move baby raping foreigners in.They then force feed the pensioners with corn to such an extent that their livers treble in size.Then they make a pate out of the livers and feed it to johnny foreigner as a delicacy called pate de fois gran.

Is this what we pay our taxes for! :x