Several fine denizens of the blogosphere have commented unfavourably on the discovery that three million households in Britain have now been "bugged" - that is their bins been equipped with microchips so that the council can monitor how much you've thrown away and how much you've recycled.

Apart from lynching your local council leader, I wonder if the only correct response to this is to start bugging the recycling so you can find out just how much of it is shipped abroad, how much is landfilled and how much actually goes to be recycled. Perhaps if you put one of those Tracker devices in the glass bin, you would end up tracing it to Felixstowe docks.

Only the guilty have anything to fear.