Philipa Bond asked:"How will the Councils reach the percentage they are supposed to if recyclers efforts are being treated like this?"Most likely they won't. If it's going to cost too much, basically they'll simply cook the books.Basically for all the political parties involved in Local Government, apart possibly from the Greens and Liberals the major priority is to keep Council Tax as low as possible. Basically people simply aren't willing to pay enough for local services, using corruptionand inefficiency , both by elected and officials as their excuse. Which the increasing burden being placedon local government by central government, and ambulancechasing lawyers does nothing to help. But the fact remains that any party seeking election has no choice but to acceed to this wish of the electorate.Basically if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Whetherits rubbish collection, libraries, or anything else. So that in a nutshell, if the benefits of cooking the books - getting elected - outweigh the costsshould they ever get found out - of flouting a particular EU directive, by whom exactly I'm not sure - by way of a fine etc then there'sno points for guessing which way this will go.michael adams...
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