I must admit that not being a coffee or tea drinker, I have to read the instructions on the coffee jar to see how much to use if I make it for someone.
I asked at our tip,where we used to live what happens to it next, bloke said "what's it got to do with you?"
I'm hoping you said "I pay for it. And for your wages"?
Technically you don't pay for it. Several reasons which my pedantic tendencies will now explain to you.
You pay various taxes which go into a pot from which local and national government uses to pay for services. You have no idea where your money actually goes so cannot possibly state that it went on paying for your and others waste to be recycled. Your taxes are not linked to anything. Just like VED or "road tax" doesn't come close to paying for the roads
Second reason is that almost all recycling centres are now sub contacted out. They are run by often n big companies that operate across the country possibly in other countries too. The local council pays the company, out of local taxes not your wallet or purse, to handle the waste and those companies pay the wages of those employees. You do not pay their wages and they don't answer to you. Plus there probably have no idea where the waste goes anyway.
However there is no need to be so blunt like that guy was. However let's be a little bit understanding of his or her job. There has been a lot of attacks and abuse on workers at recycling centres. My partner for told that our local centre had one guy who lost days at work due to an assault. On top of that they're working to rules handed down to them to enforce? The general population using those centres often do not like being told to follow those rules and the workers are probably getting a lot of grief. It's no wonder when someone comes across as about to have a go about waste handling that there have no involvement in and they snap at times.
Third grumpy point. There's a recycling company in the industrial estate in work in. No worker there knows where each sorted waste type goes. They have rumours but no facts. All they see is a truck being loaded with say bales of cardboard or plastics. The workers at the waste collection site you dump rubbish at is one or more steps removed from even that stage.
Sorry if I'm grumpy. I think people don't realise the people at these waste recycling centres are also at another kind of COVID frontline. It's not just NHS staff having a hard time these people are getting grief for just following government rules to carry out an important service in our modern, wasteful world.
Whose purse does taxes come from, then? ( grammar looks wrong - can't sort it )
I'm annoyed with myself. After scraping my melon seeds into the food bin, I realised I could've given them to the birds. Didn't compost them as I thought they might attract rats.
The plain fact is that people pay taxes into a pot which pays for public services, health care, social services, education, police, fire, ambulance, infrastructure, defence, security etc etc.
Tax payers have a right to expect that their money be allocated and used wisely (Pie in the Sky I know) and public employees, whether direct or contracted out, should expect to be questioned by the people they serve.
On a different note, Covid jab 4 hours ago. Left arm and shoulder already moaning about normal activity - trying to unravel 50m of new and determinedly twisty hosepipe.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
This was years ago,,... politely asked where the recycling went to. It was council run then... The blokes at our tip here are lovely,pre Covid they help you lift, there's a couple of ladies as well.abreveations don't you watch LIne Of Duty?
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One roll wouldn't last very long in this house.
You pay various taxes which go into a pot from which local and national government uses to pay for services. You have no idea where your money actually goes so cannot possibly state that it went on paying for your and others waste to be recycled. Your taxes are not linked to anything. Just like VED or "road tax" doesn't come close to paying for the roads
Second reason is that almost all recycling centres are now sub contacted out. They are run by often n big companies that operate across the country possibly in other countries too. The local council pays the company, out of local taxes not your wallet or purse, to handle the waste and those companies pay the wages of those employees. You do not pay their wages and they don't answer to you. Plus there probably have no idea where the waste goes anyway.
However there is no need to be so blunt like that guy was. However let's be a little bit understanding of his or her job. There has been a lot of attacks and abuse on workers at recycling centres. My partner for told that our local centre had one guy who lost days at work due to an assault. On top of that they're working to rules handed down to them to enforce? The general population using those centres often do not like being told to follow those rules and the workers are probably getting a lot of grief. It's no wonder when someone comes across as about to have a go about waste handling that there have no involvement in and they snap at times.
Third grumpy point. There's a recycling company in the industrial estate in work in. No worker there knows where each sorted waste type goes. They have rumours but no facts. All they see is a truck being loaded with say bales of cardboard or plastics. The workers at the waste collection site you dump rubbish at is one or more steps removed from even that stage.
Sorry if I'm grumpy. I think people don't realise the people at these waste recycling centres are also at another kind of COVID frontline. It's not just NHS staff having a hard time these people are getting grief for just following government rules to carry out an important service in our modern, wasteful world.
I'm annoyed with myself. After scraping my melon seeds into the food bin, I realised I could've given them to the birds. Didn't compost them as I thought they might attract rats.
Tax payers have a right to expect that their money be allocated and used wisely (Pie in the Sky I know) and public employees, whether direct or contracted out, should expect to be questioned by the people they serve.
On a different note, Covid jab 4 hours ago. Left arm and shoulder already moaning about normal activity - trying to unravel 50m of new and determinedly twisty hosepipe.
Can someone sort that sentence out for me? It's getting on my wick!
Ending with a preposition is not, however, considered good style so ...
From whose purse do taxes come?