OK. I'm going to bite on the latest news about rubbish collection and why it's so important that we 'pay as we throw'.
I appreciate the need to recycle and I understand that the stick is usually more effective than the carrot.
But it's clearly not reasonable that, without a significant reduction in our council tax, we should not only break down every single item in our rubbish but then wait for two weeks to have our rotting food collected, as is the new council thinking.
Our council tax is now paying for gangs of council subcontrators who spend their entire working day spying on us and rummaging through our trash, making sure that we’re not throwing away the things that we’re not supposed to.
It’s all completely unfair.
Say what you like about personal responsibility but let's get real, shall we?
This week Tesco announced record, massive profits. Why doesn't the government target the supermarkets?
The amount of unnecessary plastic and cardboard I come away with from a week’s shop is breathtaking. If we don’t get the packaging, we don’t have it to throw away.
Simple.
Couple that idea with adequate bins and a decent rubbish collection – based on the massive council tax we pay – and your problem is solved.
America is responsible for chucking out a third of the greenhouse gasses that choke our planet but we’re too cowardly to take them to serious task over it.
Instead, we’re on the verge of fining families who dare to throw away an extra cornflake box.