BBC: Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is expected to rule out “pay as you throw” charges for household waste. Plans to let English councils pilot schemes which would charge or reward people according to the waste thrown out had been drawn up by Labour. But no councils signed up for the trials, aimed at reducing landfill. Last year the Conservatives said they were “dead in the water”. Mr Pickles will say the coalition backs rewarding people for recycling instead. The …