Bosses to face court for mixing up recycling under net zero rules
Businesses face criminal charges if they mix up their recycling under net zero rules brought in by Labour.
All workplaces in England with 10 or more employees must now separate their waste before it is collected or risk legal action.
They will also have to rinse items such as tins and bottles before putting them in the bin.
It's worth pondering over a world where mixed up rubbish could be treated as a criminal offence. It's also worth considering the likelihood of salaried rubbish inspectors, gatherers of rubbish evidence and and the need for rubbish prosecutors.
8 comments:
Good point about rubbish inspectors - public funds are doubtless already being allocated for recruiting those charged with enforcing the government’s rubbish policy.
This process will, of course, need to be overseen by the (salaried) staff of the Office for the regulation of Funding Refuse Inspecting Professionals, OffRip for short.
We've already got rubbish police, rubbish CPS and rubbish judges . . .
I just do what's the convenient to me. Bottles to glass bin, paper to paper bin, tuna etc tins to general rubbish.
...or, perhaps RipOff.
Our place observed that rubbish of food waste separation until H&S got involved … maggots, flies became a real hazard … once it went back to bin liners for all waste, no more health hazard.
Rinsing bottles and cans is important, though. There's nothing worse than dirty rubbish. I propose transparent recycling bins, so householders can compete over who is putting out the cleanest and most appealing waste. One for the Nudge Unit, perhaps.
Ok, if you are so lazy as to fail to learn simple recyling rules, maybe you need to put forward a better way to steer stupid people toward learning and doing within those simple rules.
Don't really like them, but the 'circle people' have a point - design packaging etc for zero waste (no unrecyclables) from the beginning.
And the 'precious plastic' kids have a point - decentralized plastic conversion to constructive items, like 3D print supplies.
Carry on, praisetherays
Macheath and DAD - yes more bureaucracy seems to be the preferred solution even though we don't know the size of the problem.
Jannie - and topping it all, rubbish politics.
Anon - we do, seems to work okay.
James - we have very little food waste. Veg waste goes into the composter, stale odds and ends go out for the birds and there isn't much else.
Sam - the problem with rinsing is that it's so vague. It uses water, creates more waste water and is bound to be imperfectly done.
Anon - an issue with proposals like this is that we don't know the size of the problem, but we do know that the solution seems to be more policing bureaucracy and legal processes which will have their own costs. Are those costs greater than the costs caused by the mixing problem? We don't know.
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