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New homeowners could face caps on their weekly rubbish under secret Government plans Michael Lea New homeowners could face official caps on the amount of rubbish they throw away each week. The Government's secret plans, which were revealed on Sunday, are part of the latest scheme to make householders reduce waste. Bin taxes could also be increased to up to £466 a year. Another idea floated in a report for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is to force residents to buy council bin bags at around 75p each - and refuse to collect rubbish put out in anything else. The Daily Mail's Great Bin Revolt campaign has demonstrated the depth of public anger over cuts to traditional rubbish collections which councils have provided for more than 125 years. Now ministers are considering plans for new developments to be given limits for the amount of waste per dwelling that will be collected. Changes to planning laws would mean the system could be introduced using rules that allow the number of parking spaces to be capped for new-build homes to reduce car use. The report, titled Household Waste Prevention Policy says: 'When housing is planned, consideration is given to waste collection systems, and how much waste will be produced per house.' It goes on to say that 'if the policy for this planning was changed to fix a limit on how much waste will be collected' then residents' waste would be restricted. Limiting the frequency of collections or the size of bins was 'the most direct way to compel householders to reduce their waste,' it concluded.
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