In 2011, it suggested fines would help to encourage households to put rubbish in the correct recycling bins.
Under the plans by Merton Council, residents in Wimbledon must put rubbish sacks out between 05:00 and 06:00 or 17:00 and 18:00 or face a fine.
Residents have been advised to put their rubbish and recycling out for their next scheduled collection if their last collection was missed.
As there are limits to the tolerance of people who had to get on with their everyday lives at the same time as worrying about where to put their rubbish, how to light their street and look after an elderly neighbour, and because there are limits to BBC filming budgets, this experiment lasted just six weeks.
Is it their business what they put in the rubbish or is it everybody's business?
This is what's been happening to the vast majority of the rubbish we put in our black bags.
Catriona Spence, 24, a city centre restaurant manager, said she had been forced to put 10 bags of rubbish, which had not been uplifted, back off the street and into a storeroom.
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When they had finished with it, instead of dropping it in a rubbish bin the doctors put it in a freezer, where it hung around, half forgotten, until 1986.
According to their eBay listing, it all started when one of them saw that the building's landlord had put the old hallway mirror out on the lawn as rubbish.
They want to discover exactly what a sample of Essex households put in their bags, so that they can change their rubbish habits.
Household and commercial rubbish is currently being loaded into 40ft containers every week and put on the boat to Larne from where it is transported to a landfill site.
New time slots for rubbish collections in south-west London could see people having to put their bins out at 05:00.
It's not a menial task and I think it's awful that we weren't put in that position where we could have been earning the same as a man collecting rubbish.
The rubbish is being taken out of Ballymena because their own landfill site is nearly full and the government has put a freeze on the council developing another landfill site.
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