b'Section 23 of the Food Safety Act 1990 enables authorities to provide training in food hygiene matters and section 46 of the same Act gives a power to recoup expenses by authorities incurred in enforcing the Act. Statutory nuisance 16.9 There are powers to recover expenses and costs incurred in abating a statutory nuisance contained in section 81 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA 1990). The Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 inserts section 81A into the EPA 1990 enabling expenses to be recovered from the owner of premises where the local authority has served a statutory nuisance notice on him under the section. Such expenses will carry interest at such reasonable rate as the authority determines from the date of service of the notice until the whole amount is paid and enables the expenses to be a charge on the premises.Under section 79 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, authorities may recover their reasonable expenses in connection with the abatement of a nuisance caused by an audible intruder alarm, including their costs in connection with entry, turning off the alarm and taking other steps under the Act such as leaving the premises secured against trespassers. Case studies on charging initiatives 16.10 Rushcliffe Borough Council (the district in Nottinghamshire in which the author of this guide resides) introduced a new charge for domestic householders for the collection of garden waste which hitherto had been collected along with household waste and paid for via Council Tax. Now, to opt into the new service to have a green bin emptied every two weeks, the householder must pay the Council an annual fee of 25. Second bins may be collected for an additional 10 per year if so desired.The justification given for introducing these new charges is the requirement the Council faces to reduce its relevant budget by a quarter. When questioned by the author as to the legitimacy of this new levy, the authority had clearly done its homework and pointed to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 as the statutory enabling source for the charge along with subordinate legislation made thereunder in the form of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992, Schedule 2 (now repealed and replaced with the Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/811)) which includes garden waste as one form of household waste for which a charge for collection may be made. The full Schedule is set out below as other local authorities may wish to appraise themselves of the additional income generating potential for collecting (amongst other things) dead domestic pets or large and bulky items of waste or, indeed (the authors personal favourite), the collection of waste from a royal palace. Of interest was the fact that Rushcliffe BC (indeed, local authorities in general) are not constrained by section 93 charging powers which require charges for discretionary services to be on a cost recovery basis. The EPA 1990 comprises a separate statutory code for waste and 162'