I wasn’t even aware of this one until it came into force today.
My local tip has listed it as “Up to two 50L rubble bags at a frequency of 4 visits per household over a 4 week period”
Honestly, that’s pretty fair. If you have a big lot of waste, a skip is still worth it. (a 6-yard is about 70+ rubble sacks worth)
But for smaller projects, this is great. And hopefully should reduce fly-tipping a little.
Edit: Swapped the “oh no, council tax might go up” BBC article for the gov.uk press release. BBC article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65977938
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The word “could” in that BBC article is doing a lot of work !
I’d love to know the additional cost of this compared to the current cost to councils of dealing with fly tipping.
It seems crazy to charge at the point of disposal.
Perhaps a controversy idea, but for awkward-to-dispose items, shouldn’t the cost of disposal be included in the purchase price?
For example: Tyres are definitely going to be disposed of at the end of their life. Let’s say it costs £3 to properly dispose of one. Add that £3 as a disposal tax. All that money goes into a central fund.
Then when a tyre rocks up at a tip, the tip will accept them happily because they know they can get the cost of disposal back from the central fund.
It would up the price of a tyre (or whatever item it is), but that cost was there at the start anyway. At the moment it’s just subsided through council tax.
I’m sure there are holes in this somewhat simplistic idea, but still it seems fair that if you buy it, you buy it for life, including when it inevitably gets hossed.
I’ve never even heard of being charged to take stuff to the recycling centre. Is this an England (and Wales?) specific thing?
Anyway, that aside, definitely a good idea.
