That laid the foundations for the bitter struggles of the 1979 'winter of discontent' - which saw bodies go unburied as the undertakers went on strike, domestic power cuts, rubbish bins overflowing in the street and heating turned off in hospitals - marking the eventual and inveitable end.
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"Just because they're putting together committees with the same number of people from both companies doesn't necessarily mean they'll be inefficient and fail to cut through the rubbish," said Joseph Zanmindustry, an industry consultant.
My daughter's dog's foot was cut on the rubbish a couple of weeks ago," Mr Farrant said.
Five councils in south east Wales have formed a partnership to deal with black bag waste in a bid to cut down on rubbish going to landfill.
But it could be considered if it is deemed necessary to cut down on rubbish in the future, according to a government consultation.
But it is more than that; for my generation, it was the equivalent of the Blitz, something we all lived through, from power cuts, high inflation, rubbish on the streets to the unburied dead.
Cut-and-paste rubbish this may be, but at least it is painless rubbish, which, thanks to the second-string pairing of Jill Scott and Adam Brody, made me chuckle twice, albeit against my better judgment.
Yes there were strikes and power cuts, and the rubbish built up on the streets, but there were no wars, banks didn't go bankrupt, shops were still shops and Woolies was for ever.
When Tagore made his triumphal début in London, poets like Yeats and Ezra Pound caught fire, but more committed rationalists remained cold: Bertrand Russell attended one of his lectures and pronounced it "unmitigated rubbish — cut-and-dried conventional stuff about the river becoming one with the Ocean and man becoming one with Brahma".
