UK: Bin bureaucrats sifting and weighing your trash

June 15, 2008, 1:36 pm
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’Bin bureaucrats’ secretly taking families’ wheelie-bins to sift and weigh the food they throw out

Daily Mail
June 10, 2008

Householders are having their rubbish secretly sifted and weighed to see how much food they are throwing away, it has emerged.

Wheelie-bins are being taken from residents without their knowledge, and spot checked to see how many scraps of food are in them and how much they weigh.

No permission is sought for the ’sampling’ exercise and the householder is simply presented with a new bin.

Council taxpayers in Sussex have reacted furiously to the latest example of ’bin bureaucracy’ and said officials had no right to snoop on the contents of their refuse.

Officials at Tory-run Mid-Sussex District Council attempted to reassure locals by telling them it is a ’fact-finding’ exercise to gauge how much food is being dumped.

But residents branded the survey – which cost £1,700 – an invasion of privacy and fear it is the first step towards charging residents who fail to meet Government recycling targets.

Mother-of-three Michelle Gregory, 46, of Haywards Heath, received a letter sent to her by the council explaining they were looking through her waste the day after her regular rubbish collection.

She said: ’It just seems to be the way the world is going with CCTV cameras, ID cards and fingerprinting at schools.

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