Stealth tax my arse.
The beauty of taxing domestic waste by weight is that it's the polluter who pays. The economics are simple enough: Don't waste your money on things you're not going to use + don't mindlessly throw things away that can be recycled = save money.
The proposed new law doesn't go anywhere near far enough on single use carrier bags and excess packaging, but the idea of giving councils the power to reward as well as punish householders, if implemented, sidesteps neatly around the howls of protest from Mail and Express readers who continue to believe that the country is too small to take in persecuted human beings and yet somehow big enough to take another fifty years' worth of their empty pop bottles and pizza boxes.
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