How much are you paying for your domestic bin collection?

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Live in Meath and have a 120 ltr bin & green bin.
Pay annual charges of €288 for the priviledge.
How does this compare with the rest of the country ??
 
Barna Waste in Aughrim, Ballinasloe collect my bins. Every other week, one for domestic waste and one for recycling.

€288 pa (Roscommon)
 
In Dublin City Council area, 2008 charges were:

Annual standing charge - €91.00
Black Bin - €5.70 per lift
Green Bin - Free (but only collected if you pay your bills)
Brown Bin - €2.00 per lift

Green bin collection every 2 weeks. Black & Brown collected on alternate weeks. Don't know about other users, but my charges (family of 4, recycle what we can and make regular trips to bring centres and bottle banks) are about 220 per year. I don't put the bin out every time. If the bin went out every week the total charge would be 291.20.
 
In Cork, Greenstar charge €264 per year. This covers refuse every second week, recycling 3 weeks out of 4 and glass collection 1 in 4. Large recycling bin and smaller ones for refuse and glass. Plenty capacity for a household of 6 people.
 
I live in Meath and we use Thornton's...Green bin, collected each fortnight, is 60 euros pa. For normal waste collection you can buy five printed plastic sacks (it's either 10 or 15 Kilos max allowed) for around 16 euros, and put them out for collection. ... and that's it, cost-wise.
Aside from all that, I would highly recommend installing a waste disposal unit under your sink, it will make an amazing difference to your waste collection costs because the WDU takes virtually all wet waste and more besides. Not sure if it would have the backing of the Green party, mind, and I think some local councils around the country actually ban them, but that's another day's work...
 
Kildare/Oxigen.

€299 for a 240L bin.
Grey bin collection every 2nd week.
Green & Brown bins collection every 2nd week.
 
Looks like we're paying the most..... Co. Limerick (city suburbs)..... €240 for 6 months , weekly collection but overall weight limit of 400 kg in 6-month period, excess weight charges thereafter. Re-cycle bags provided for non-glass recyclables.....
 
Louth - Panda

Recently dropped a little in price to €282 per annum.

This covers a weekly lift, alternating between general rubbish and recyclables. They don't seem to operate a brown bin collection.
 
Barna waste(based in Ballinasloe) Im based in Athlone-€288/annum for blue(recycle) and black( standard waste) bin. Collection of each is every 2nd wk
 
Hi,

I'm in south east and compared to rest of prices looks like I'm being ripped off - bin charges for this year is E369 for recycling collection once a week and then refuse every second week. Greenstar is the company.

angela59
 
In the North East - €300 PA. Black + green bin only - green collected every 3 weeks.
 
was told by DCC:

standing charge € 92
every 2nd week black bin lift € 5,70

can anyone from dublin tell me how i am going to be charged for it e.g. invoice wise? i moved into a new house and my bins have been collected since october. the girl from the waste management company told me, that i will be contacted eventually with an invoice. nobody ever sent me an invoice so i am wondering now? how are you guys paying for your bins? are ye's getting an invoice and heading with it to the post office? or no invoice at all, just pro-active self-payment?
 
alaskaonline said:
was told by DCC:

how are you guys paying for your bins? are ye's getting an invoice and heading with it to the post office? or no invoice at all, just pro-active self-payment?
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I get an invoice and send off a cheque, but then I'm based outside Dublin
 
angela59 said:
Hi,

I'm in south east and compared to rest of prices looks like I'm being ripped off - bin charges for this year is E369 for recycling collection once a week and then refuse every second week. Greenstar is the company.

angela59
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I'm in the south east too and am with [broken link removed] which costs me about €240 per year using the pay per lift option - 240l waste and recycle bins and 140l compost bin - waste bin collect one week, recycle /compost the other week. Even though they raised their standing charge substantially late last year they are still easily the cheapest for us ( family of six ).
 
alaskaonline said:
can anyone from dublin tell me how i am going to be charged for it e.g. invoice wise?
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DCC invoices quarterly. My last invoice was for Oct-Dec 2008. You can pay by direct debit, cheque in the post, an post billpay, credit card over the phone, or by credit card online (my preferred method).

I'm sure you'll get invoiced soon.
 
pansyflower said:
They want me to register?!!
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No registration required to view charges:
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Strikes me from this and many other services that urban dwellers should get more of a discount. Surely it costs vastly more to collect bins from dispersed one-off rural houses than in cities and towns?
 
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