Jock's Place - ASI behind the curve on rubbish... - Comments

However...

Jock — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:00:53 +0000

...as in the piece I wrote in August, there would potentially need to be some enforcement so that people were held accountable for not making proper arrangements. The switch from weekly to alternate week collection in Oxford has clearly not been met in some streets by a change of attitude.

But that's simple enough - all local authorities have people who deal with nuisance neighbours. It would cost far less than a refuse collection service to have a few extra officers to enforce neighbour torts.

Better late than never...

Tristan Mills — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:31:54 +0000

Better late than never.

I recently heard a brief discussion about waste management in the US. I know the part of Indiana my wife comes from has private collection - you choose your collector and pay them. Each provider collects on a different day but if there's a holiday they arrange with the next day's collector to collect it and they pay them.

In New Hampshire they also have private waste collection. Its seen as natural. In Florida they have public collection and they cannot think of anything else.

I don't see it being unworkable in the UK, and it has the added bonus that if recycling is actually worth it economically then they may even start competing and pay you for those profitable recyclable materials... (surely a good thing - especially if we do the green/Pigouvian taxation correctly).

ASI behind the curve on rubbish...

Jock — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:01:10 +0000

Spotted this at the Adam Smith Institute blog:

The future of rubbish: