As the Birmingham council elections approach, a debate over privatization of refuse collections has gone into high gear. The Liberal Democrats have proposed that the bin service should be broken up into three parts and privatized. The Labour Party is proposing to “launch a Clean Streets Campaign working with community organizations and schools to promote behaviour change while increasing the number of enforcement officers and using mapping to target fly-tipping hotspots”; the Conservatives want to “drive improvement in the waste service by modernising the service and reviewing the service against the best performing collection services in the country”; the Greens say “No privatization of bin services—that will just result in refuse workers being paid poverty wages. We would seek to exit the Veolia contract requiring quotas of waste sent for incineration.”