One of the few good things this government has announced is more funds for Crown courts to sit on more days each year. Given the amount of extra tax this government has raised at least a fraction of it is being spent sensibly
There seems to be another good thing around, which is standardisation of recycling materials and bins across England.
Westminster makes it very simple: non-recyclable rubbish (but you can split food waster optionally) and all recycling material together.
They then take the cost of separating out the recycling materials.
If you make it complicated for people some won’t bother to do it. This is just about the governments pushing work onto the residents at a cost to the total amount of recycling
The catch is the usual one. The funding the state can gather through the tax system won't pay for that, and making people sort stuff at home is considerably cheaper.
The difficult question you have is "what is recycling?"
To which there are a nearly infinite set of answers, depending on process.
Most efficient way to sort it is to collect everything in one bin, fire it through a waste to heat powerstation, run a magnet over the ash to fetch the steel out, they shove the remaining ash into landfill.
Burning gas (which costs money) to generate electricity whilst paying people to "recycle" plastics and cardboard is the definition of insanity.
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Burning gas (which costs money) to generate electricity whilst paying people to "recycle" plastics and cardboard is the definition of insanity.
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