Can I ask a question that I'm sure is a bit daft, but under the pay-by-weight model, how exactly do you know what you have been charged for? People don't usually weigh their wheelie bins, but do those collecting the rubbish tell you how heavy your bins were?
Thanks!Online Greyhound account shows weight of black bins... it's weighed on the lift before and after it's emptied, and the difference is your kg charge... although it's hard to independently know if their figures are reliably accurate for all lifts.
It is. But it's clearly insane to be using energy and water to wash food containers, if the object of the exercise is to minimise overall environmental impact.If you dont wash the recylable containers is it not the same as putting food in the green bin??
.....Some providers likely do a better job than others, but I think there's a lot of people who are just lazy or choose not to pay attention. Even where I work there are labels attached to the recycling bins clearly stating should and should not go in them, and yet supposedly well-educated people still put a lot of non-recyclables into the recycling bin. And in this instance there isn't even a financial incentive, it's just pure laziness.
.....We need a proper incineration-based system like they have elsewhere.
Would you be happy to have a large incinerator near where you live ?
No harm saying it to the offenders, if you happen to see them dumping their rubbish in the wrong bins
Oh, I've done that and received looks as if I had two heads!!
Well there's already an animal waste incinerator a few hundred yards from my home, where BSE-infected carcasses and other lovely stuff is burned away. It stinks like hell at times too. Does that mean my opinions here count for more?
I would imagine the smell gets into your clothes while doing laundry, gets into all of the rooms in your house, then there's the flies etc. In my view, this will discourage potential buyers if and when you go to sell your house (so I hope it was factored into your negotiations, when you purchased).
For what it's worth, incinerators should always be located in areas of high population as this ensures proper regulation and monitoring of their environmental effects. There is one bang in the centre of Vienna.
I do not agree with you.
By all means, logistics should be considered but thereafter, keep them as far away from the more densely populated areas as possible. There is no reason why regulation and monitoring should be dependent on where the incinerator is located. Why put people through unnecessary discomfort (such as bad smells, more flies and who knows what else) when we don't have to ?
Had to empty out the recycling bin on Saturday and take out all the glass bottles that I always presumed were allowed.
Steven, Panda in DLRCC allow you put glass in the green bin, I know their website says you can't but in DLRCC we are allowed.
....I asked why they don't accept glass and they said it is too hard to separate it from the other recyclable materials.
I see e-mails are going out from Greyhound confirming renewal of set price contracts for August and in my relative's case it is €18.50 as opposed to €17.00 per month. In case anyone misses it the sneaky asterisk paragraph reads as follows:
*Fair usage policy: In line with industry standard practice a fair usage policy applies. Each month an allowance of 42kg is applied to your general waste bin after which you will be charged 30cent/ kg (but only for additional kg's above 42).
And yes, the * mention at the bottom of the email about fair usage of 42kg. Hadn't noticed that before. But this only applies if you go on their fair usage offer...it gives you a lower monthly rate of €16.50 but has that weight restriction.
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