Recycling. A good thing, but is this a step too far?

[mejinks]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6966580.stm

Where I live we pay the same amount of council tax, but to "encourage" more recycling, they have cut refuse collection to once every two weeks. During the summer this has led to plenty of complaints about rotting meat, veg etc making for very smelly bins.

The council have gone on record advising us to take excess or rotting rubbish to the local tip, they neglected to mention that they will soon start charging for bags taken to the tip.

So as per usual, we end up paying twice for half a service with a hairbrained scheme that we didn't vote for. When I lived in Cardiff, if you wanted to recycle, you had to pay £1 a bag and you couldn't put the bags out too early otherwise you would have the local council nazi fining you for dumping rubbish on the kerbside

Its all a bit too much really. I like the idea of recycling, but it should be up to the individual not enforced. Personally I like the idea of advisers, but having them come onto my property, looking through my bins is a step in the wrong direction tbh.

Discuss.