"Now bin police get tough over... a teabag"

Bastards.

The paper edition has an extra article about a "£460 rubbish tax proposal", again, bastards. For sure, there are costs associated with getting rid of waste, and if councils can reduce the cost by asking people to separate their rubbish, then they should do so, but this is a question of education and relying on people's better nature, stupid fines and taxes on waste disposal will just lead to fly-tipping.

... and those costs could and should be covered by adding a small charge to the selling price of new goods* - half a penny per bottle or battery, a pound or two per pound avoirdupois for electronic stuff and so on. Which, for most new goods will be a heck of a lot less than VAT currently is, which will of course be scrapped in the MW manifesto.

* Which I explained in the second half of this post.

As to landfill, I'm even less worried about landfill, having read this.