My privacy-loving countrymen here in the UK are up in arms about plans to equip household waste bins with RFID chips that will enable the collection services to monitor the amount of rubbish that a household produces. The primary concern seems to be that local governments will intend to start charging households on a scale based on quantity of waste removed – which doesn’t seem that unreasonable to me, and shouldn’t be a concern to anyone ‘doing their bit’ to recycle. The thing that everyone seems to have overlooked is – what is to stop major waste-producers simply putting their rubbish in other people’s bins?