Bin Banisher's Reward: £30,000 Bonus For Waste Watchdog Who Helped Abolish Weekly Collection

The boss of the controversial organisation behind the abolition of weekly rubbish collections received a bonus of £30,000 last year.

Liz Goodwin, the chief executive of WRAP, was rewarded for spreading the doctrine of compulsory recycling.

The payment took the value of her pay and perks to more than £200,000 – outstripping the Prime Minister’s salary of £189,994.

WRAP, which cost the taxpayer nearly £80million last year, has become an increasingly controversial body over the past five years.

It was the quango that pressed councils to abandon weekly rubbish collections and replace them with fortnightly bin pick-ups, with households compelled to followcomplicated recycling rules.
WRAP advised councils to introduce fortnightly collections during winter, so no one would notice the smells until it was too late to protest, and to avoid bringing them in at election times, to prevent voters having a say.

Its activities allowed ministers at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which pays for WRAP, to imply that the introduction of fortnightly collections had nothing to do with them.

The high levels of pay, bonuses and pensions for WRAP bosses provoked criticism from MPs and pressure groups.

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