The EU Trash Police [for a profit, natch]

[UK]
Threatened with steep fines if they dump too much trash, local governments around the country are imposing strict regimens to force residents to produce less and recycle more:

• Many local governments now collect trash only twice a month, instead of every week.
• They restrict households to a limited amount of garbage and refuse to pick up more.
• They require that garbage be put out only at specific times.
• They impose fines (often in the hundreds of dollars) for failure to comply with their rigid restrictions.
• Other forms of punishment include receiving a "sticker of shame" that informs the public a resident has violated local garbage laws.

The British government says the new regulations are necessary if Britain is to adjust to the changing times: Britain has been ordered to reduce the waste it puts in landfills -- by 2015, to 50 percent of what is was in 1995 -- or face untold millions of dollars in European Union fines.

[no wonder Ireland said no thank you to the Lisbon 'treaty'. The moral? It never stops; once government is let out of it Petri dish it acts like a virus, consuming everything before it {think 'Andromeda Strain'}]

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