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Caron Lindsay

David Laws says Councils should charge for bin collections. Or does he?

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 19th March 2014 - 10:54 am

Refuse collection bin lorry LicenseAttribution Some rights reserved by bilbobagweedToday’s Telegraph says “David Laws: Councils should charge for bin collections”

It’s a headline designed to get you imagining piles of uncollected rubbish on the streets when people don’t pay.  It’s designed to invoke all of your senses. The smell of waste left to putrify in the noonday sun, that tell-tale sound of scurrying little rodent feet, and then the sight of pink-eyed, hungry rats. Everywhere.

That unmistakeable smell of decay is already in your nostrils, isn’t it?

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