From the UK Daily Mail
UK Government spies going through garbage.
Worried residents thought their rubbish was being stolen when council ‘spies’ dressed in hoodies started rifling through their bins.
Concerned neighbours saw mysterious men emptying their bins into black sacks and loading them into an unmarked white van.
When homeowners questioned the official binmen an hour later they learned their council was conducting a survey of what was being thrown away.
The ‘spies’ were part of a week-long waste analysis study by the Northamptonshire Waste Partnership, a collaboration of eight local authorities working to reduce rubbish going to landfill. An external contractor was told to go through the bins of residents.
One thousand houses were targeted as part of the survey, including 780 in Northamptonshire.
But none of the inhabitants of Cedar Close, Irchester, near Wellingborough, Northants, had received any notice from their council about what was going on.
Resident Gillian Barnett, 61, said the snoopers made her feel ‘very uncomfortable’.
She said: ‘Three young men parked outside my house and just started going through my bins – I thought they were pinching my rubbish. It was very suspicious.
‘We haven’t had a leaftlet or a letter, all my neighbours were going round asking each other what was happening.
‘If they’d had “County Council” marked on their van it would have been less concerning but as it was nobody knew what was going on.
It made me worry about what I had put in the bin – I didn’t know I was going to be fined or what.
‘I heard this was happening in nearby streets like Pine Close too.’
Another resident, who asked to remain anonymous, slammed the council for using ‘Big Brother’ tactics. (Read more.)
B.S. Report–Welcome to “enviro-world.” You can bet that they’re going to determine that UK residents aren’t disposing properly and all sorts of new laws and regulations will result from this “study.” As for the lady who said she would have at least been more comfortable had the van the rummagers been driving been marked, “County Council,” I couldn’t disagree with her more.
If these were merely thieves going through your garbage you wouldn’t have to worry about them passing any new laws affecting the way you live. All you would have to do is make sure you shred any financial documents or other identity information that the thieves might use. That’s far simpler than stopping the out-of-control government machine.
