UK Garbage disappointment.
www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/world/europe/27garbage.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

I'd have to say this story disappointed me a great deal.

Potentially installing microchips in your wheelie bins to measure the amount of garbage?

Will the city council be weighing your poos next to make sure you're eating properly and not too much?

Dear lord.

Sometimes a written constitution with specifically enumerated rights to prevent this sort of nonsense is a good thing.

Honestly, aren't you all on a little tiny island? Surely there could be some decent landfill/terraforming opportunities to make the place a little more spacious, rather than putting up with that sort of nonsense.
(not here, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 5:37, 4 replies)

Absolute rubbish
don't believe all you read in the papers
(polar69, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 6:37, closed)

Rubbish indeed...
Moreover, I don't see the problem with monitoring bins. People throw away vast amounts of stuff that could be recycled or composted, but they're too fat, lazy and - dammit - British to do so. They're utterly unwilling to pay the public costs of their actions - and so there comes a point when you have to force them to do so.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 9:32, closed)

Always amazes me about how Americans believe they have freedom
Yet if they stood on a soap boax in Washington and preached the "benefits" of communism, they would be arrested.
(Super Jet Shoes, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 9:35, closed)

Landfilling or terraforming?
Are you mad? Its that kind of unsustainable anthropocentric thinking that has got us into the mess we are in.
(Errorist, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 9:38, closed)