Fortnightly rubbish collections have been branded an unworkable mess likely to increase fly-tipping, confuse the public and provoke protest riots.
MPs say councils have 'blundered' into scrapping traditional weekly rounds!

Recycling to be rubbished?
Fortnightly rubbish collections may not encourage recycling and could lead to widespread fly-tipping, MPs warn in a report.

A wheelie bin from Peterborough was spotted more than 1,200 miles away - being used to mix cement in Bulgaria.
More than 2,500 bins, worth £30 each, have disappeared from Peterborough, Cambs, in the past year.

The scrapping of weekly waste collections has been blamed for a spate of wheelie bin thefts around the country.
Victims suspect their neighbours have taken their bins to store the extra rubbish caused by fortnightly collections.

A warning was issued today about the dangers of teenagers sniffing the fumes from burning wheelie bins to get high.
Police in South Yorkshire believe dozens of bins in the Barnsley area may have been torched by youths in order to inhale the toxic plastic fumes.

FIREFIGHTERS dealt with another bin fire in Aylesbury last night (Monday).
Suspected arsonists started a bin fire in Edinburgh playing fields, Cherwell Road, Aylesbury.
A firecrew from Aylesbury Station attended the incident, at around 9.45pm.

The first official trials of pay-as-you-throw rubbish technology have started, paving the way for wheelie bin taxes.
Nearly 250,000 households have had microchips fitted to their rubbish bins in a test of the equipment necessary for sending families bills according to how full their bins are.

Hard Line: Tough new rules mean refuse must now be sorted or council chiefs will impose fines.

Householders face a £100 fine for dumping food in the wrong bin under a council's new dustbin diktat.

The Daily Mail also revealed that nearly 100 people a day are being fined under laws that punish householders for leaving wheelie bin lids open.
More than 33,000 were given on the spot penalties in the 12 months after the crackdown was launched.

Burglars carted off their haul of computers in a Wheelie Bin after raiding Kingsthorpe Community College, Northampton.

A single scrap of paper in a bin for glass and tins means this young man now has a criminal record which will blight his entire life.
FINED: Michael Reeves had to pay £200

Nearly half of Britian's household rubbish bins contain all the information a fraudster needs to steal a person’s identity, a new survey shows.

Householders face being fined £100 for putting out extra bag of rubbish.
Extreme new rules mean any refuse that does not fit into a bin and is put out for collection by the dustman can be classed as fly-tipping.

LIVES are being put at risk after a rash of wheelie bin arsons in Aylesbury and Long Crendon says Bucks Fire Service.
The warning comes after 12 wheelie bin arsons in the Tring Road area alone in the last three weeks.
Concern for public safety is growing after a wheelie bin fire came dangerously close to exploding a gas main in Grecian Street, off Tring Road last week.
Just last Monday, a Long Crendon family of five were left without a home when fire spread from a wheelie bin to their house, gutting three bedrooms in the process. Fortunately the occupiers were away visiting family on the night of the fire.
The alarming regularity of the arson attacks has prompted Bucks Fire Service to appeal to householders and businesses to be extra vigilant.
Community safety partnership manager Keith Wheeler underlined the seriousness of the fires, all of which have been in the early hours of the morning.