WBC TALKING RUBBISH

The Environmental Protection Act 1990, section 46, allows waste collection authorities to require occupiers to place waste for collection in receptacles of a kind and number specified. Bin bags are considered a ‘receptacle’ under the Act. Waste collection authorities may:



(i) Provide the receptacles free of charge;


(ii) Provide the receptacles and ask the occupier to pay for them;


(iii) Require the occupier to provide the receptacles himself if he does not agree to pay for them within a specified period; or


(iv) Require the occupier to provide the receptacles himself from the outset.


When you are offered the Wokingham Borough Council sacks, gracefully decline the offer and tell the Council that you do not agree to pay for their sacks and that you will provide your own from the outset. This confirms that you do not accept their Terms and Conditions.

If the council person tells you that you have to accept their thin, skinny sacks by law, ask them what law they are referring to as this has never been tested in a court of law in the UK to date?

Councilor David Lee is leader of Wokingham Borough Council. He says "We've based the figure (80 x little 75 litre bags) on looking at what people generally throw away and we think that combined with the weekly waste collection, will be achievable.



If that isn’t talking rubbish I don’t know what is?