The whole thing stinks

So we are told that we will be fined an outrageous fee if we put our rubbish out too early as it encourages mice and rats on to the streets? But what better way to encourage mice and rats on to the streets (as well as a pretty awful smell) than to only collect our rubbish every two weeks? That is what four in every ten councils are now doing. What in the name of God is going on? Why do I pay my council tax, exactly? This isn't some goodwill arrangement I have with my local councillors, the reason I pay them is so they provide me a service. Yet they act as though they are doing me a favour by taking my rubbish away. You're not - I am paying you goons to do it and if you don't do it can you please justify your annual tax increases?

The reasons for all this are three fold. Firstly it provides these money pinching jobsworths more opportunity to hand out their "bin fines". Secondly, the government has increased the tax on putting waste in to landfill. Thirdly they are under pressure to hit recycling targets from the government. So, naturally, the people that pay for this desperately bad service and the ones who suffer. Surprise, surprise, the British Pest Control Association said that ending weekly collections has resulted in millions of tons of rubbish being left rotting in streets and gardens. Get your story straight will you? - do you want us to get rid of our rubbish to avoid the vermin or do you want us to hang on to it? I can't wait for that summer sun to come out - London and the UK's other towns and cities are going to smell great.