Saturday, April 23, 2011
Meanwhile - in the U.K. - "Bin police"
The Brits have decided to reign in the "bin police"...
Melissa Kite and Alastair Jamieson write about it on the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph website:
"In a major victory for campaigners, ministers say they are to limit local authorities' power to impose 'immoral' charges and fines for minor mistakes to do with recycling and rubbish.
Councils will no longer be able to fine people for failing to close a bin lid; leaving bin bags next to a bin; putting a bin out on the wrong day; failing to move it back inside the boundary of a property; or making minor mistakes with recycling.
Only the most severe cases of fly-tipping will be subject to penalties.-"
