Re: Have You Noticed The State Of Lay-bys These Days? They Are Disgusting!
Originally Posted by
Baz46
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I don't see why increases in Council Tax should happen. Rubbish that is now dumped has to be cleared, by the local council. To send out teams of men with vehicles which in total probably costs more than what would be 'lost' by making disposal of rubbish free. By all means charge for rubbish disposal by companies, that happens now if it's a commercial vehicle being used. Council Tax payers should not be subsidising companies.
In the past there was not rubbish dumping in the way it happens today, not until councils and others started charging. The imposition of Landfill Tax I believe only served to make this even more necessary:
This meant local councils had to make charges for what used to be free, I believe causing dumping of rubbish on the scale we see today. Things cannot continue as they are or in the longer term we will all end up living in rubbish tips, not a very pleasant outlook in many ways.
I agree with your and Dex's points about removing fly tipping rubbish. If council tips were free for all, at least the perpetrators would drive it to the dumpsite, instead of having to employ teams of workers and supplying them with trucks and equipment to remove it. I run past a popular fly tipping spot on my Sunday run and on several occasions been passed by a council cleanup team. Working on Sunday?......What's that going to cost?
Things are very much different nowadays, we have become a throwaway society, we couldn't afford to throw anything away when I was young, it was either repaired, or utilised for something else. I don't know about anybody else, but we just had one small zinc plated dustbin that was mainly filled by ash from the fire and burned out baked bean cans etc. I think recycling was done by chucking stuff on the fire, or using it to light tomorrows fire....
The council tip was mainly constructed of Ash, from the thousands of dustbins collected each week, so not all that bad for the environment. Anything else that needed to be dumped could be taken to the great big hole in the ground (the tip!) and thrown in, and not a black plastic back in sight.....