Homeowners who fail to provide enough recycled rubbish are being shamed with smaller bins. The slimline plastic containers handed out by the council at Tamworth, Staffordshire, are seen by some families as a public humiliation. They are delivered to homes which fail to fill their blue boxes with recycled rubbish every week.

One recipient of a slim bin, which holds just two-thirds the amount of a conventional wheelie, said: "I don't like the implication. It makes me look like an outcast."

Daily Mail (Francis Harvey)

Ray Brewer, head of licensing at Enfield Council, says building relationships with the area's bars, clubs and pubs was central to changing the way the town centre was used. "We went to venues and talked about what we wanted to stop," he says. "We then applied that when people had to transfer their licences. Those places that didn't attract drinking problems were allowed to open later. With others we were very firm."

Guardian Society (Harry Glenister)

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