BECAUSE Britain's domestic rubbish mountain has grown by nearly a third in 10 years, the Government has produced a consultation paper which includes a proposal to tax householders according to how much rubbish they produce.

If this proposal became law I don't think it would succeed.

Householders would put their bags into other people's bins or just dump them all over the place.

They would be far better advised to scrap the policy of using wheelie bins because that is why Britain's domestic rubbish mountain has shot up in the last decade. Wheelie bins are far too large and householders fill them up with other waste which they used to burn.

Research has shown that households which have wheelie bins produce an average of 41.3 lbs per week compared to 27.2 lbs for those households which use plastic sacks.

With 50 per cent of councils using wheelie bins this would not be a cheap option.

But it would be a better option than to put yet another tax on households in Britain.

COUNCILLOR DAVID PEARSON, Rawstorne Street, Blackburn.

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