Ministers are currently passing legislation to get rid of the previous Labour government's policy of offering councils the chance to take part in pilot "pay-as-you-throw" schemes which charge households which create the most rubbish.

BBC: Council rubbish bin collection fines to be scrapped

He admitted that when it came to the disposal of rubbish, "everybody who looks at what's happening with packaging and all the waste we create knows we can do better there".

BBC: Bottles

The biomass power station would burn rubbish, animal manure, woodchips, seaweed, corn stalks and other wastes, to heat water to create steam to turn turbines to produce around 300 megawatts of electricity.

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