As I understood at least part of the declared reasoning as expressed by him as to why the council was taking up the government money available for those councils which introduce wheelies, it was to increase recycling rates. That does, of course, represent a variety of alternatives as to what it is that is being recycled. But garden waste is certainly one of those alternatives.

I await the plaudits for this inequitable and unequal charging scheme: no longer a case of the citizens of Birmingham being screwed, but of them being Bored!