Isn't it about time councils were taken to task over their increasingly restrictive domestic waste collections?
Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 - section 46, 4(a);the council (4) In making requirements as respects receptacles under subsection (1) above, the authority may, by the notice under that subsection, make provision with respect to—
(a) the size, construction and maintenance of the receptacles;
In Reading, the council has taken its latest steps in reducing the bin sizes whilst Wokingham Borough Council is still living in 1970 utilising bag collections.
When Reading reduces the general waste bin again from 140 litres to 120 litres or smaller next year or the year after and Wokingham reduces the number of single use plastic bags it allows it's Council tax payers who will be there to stop them?
Councils like Reading are using section 46 of the EPA 1990 to reduce their services to us; in this instance reducing the amount of rubbish they collect from households.
ReplyDeleteEventually we will find we've sleepwalked into paying for this service if we don't challenge them now.