You’ll face rotting rubbish for a MONTH under Labour’s new bin rules – all while council tax soars by £109

Under Labour’s new waste regulations, households may have to deal with weeks’ worth of decaying trash while council tax bills are expected to rise by an average of 109.

Tory proposals to guarantee twice-weekly garbage collections have been secretly scrapped by ministers, paving the way for three-weekly or even monthly pickups.

The abandoned plans had specified a minimum backstop that councils were to adhere to in order to minimize odors and rodents.

The dissolution of Parliament prior to the general election left these plans unfinished.

Labour’s new guidelines, which were leaked during Friday’s discussion on assisted dying, do not revive them; rather, they let town councils to choose their own schedules with no minimum frequency.

Black bin collections would only be made once a month, according to leaked plans from Green-run Bristol, which has infuriated locals.

Additionally, labor-runAccording to council bin bureaucrats, Wales has made monthly or three-weekly collections the standard, arguing that the reductions are necessary to meet net zero goals.

As households prepare for a 5 percent increase in council taxes—the highest amount permitted without a local referendum—the new guidelines are also released.

This would add 109 to the typical Band D bill, which is currently 2,171, making yearly payments more than 2,280.

“Even though Keir Starmer promised to freeze Council Tax, he has allowed councils to raise them by an average of 110 per year and will now allow them to leave rubbish rotting for a month,” Communities Secretary Kevin Hollinrake told The Sun.

“Brits deserve better than this garbage, and Labour needs to do what they were elected to do; stand up for citizens not simply roll over for their union paymasters.”

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Labour retaliated, claiming that their new regulations will make recycling easier and less taxing for homeowners.

Councils would be instructed to provide up to four containers per household as a “default” to separate rubbish under the shake-up.

Tory plans to make families juggle seven dumpsters by 2030 were criticized by Environment Secretary Steve Reed as a “fiasco” that would have sparked mayhem across.

He stated: In order to eliminate the postcode lottery, expedite waste collections, and permanently clean up our streets, the Labour Government is implementing a simplified recycling strategy.

Following Rishi Sunak’s abandonment of a Conservative policy that would have mandated that local authorities collect rubbish in up to seven distinct containers, councils were left in a state of uncertainty.

According to a Taxpayers’ Alliance survey, people in Gosport only had two bins, but those in Blaenau Gwent, Cotswold, and Merthyr Tydfil were using up to ten.

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