In the south east we pay an annual bin charge of circa 100, it's 7.50 for the standard bin, and 2.50 for the green (recycling) or brown (compost) bin that is supplied by the council.
I find this fair enough, but if as you say, it's as expensive to get your green bin lifted, are there any recycling centres nearby you can use for free? I also use the local bottle and can banks, and there's a centre which will accept plastic and cardboard too.
Is yours a private operator or a council operated scheme? I'd say this has a huge bearing on how much they charge you, unfortunately.
We can bring ours to a recycling centre for free! Is there(civic Amenity) any of them near you?
... are they not meant to be encouraging us to recycle? If so, they should be subsidising the price of lifts...
we should be encouraged to reduce before recycle. Recycling is not the answer to all our problems.
I imagine also that a cheaper recycling lift might lead to unscrupulous individuals mixing their refuse... perhaps those in the SE are more honest than the rest of us
Some unscrupulous people may try to mix their recycling to avail of the cheaper lifts, but the council operate random spot checks, ranging from quick cursory glances into the wheelie bin by a councilperson sent round a few minutes in advance of the lifts, who'll have a quick rifle down past the top layer of cardboard/paper/plastics, to somtimes randomly removing entire wheelie bins for emptying and fully checking before returning the bins to the household, so there is an incentive there to be honest as there's hefty fines if you're caught sticking any old rubbish in and "contaminating" the entire lorryload of recyclables.
It might take up some extra time and manpower to do these random spotchecks, but it seems to have the desired effect as there doesn't seem to be much of a problem with mixing of refuse in the SE thankfully.
I have to say I am pretty happy with the system they brought in, even though there was initial uproar about the brown compost bins during summertime (flies/maggots/noxious smells issues).
RMCF, have you sent that e-mail aready?Would you consider including a request for the provision of a bring centre for recyclables? Just to see what their response is regarding not providing these facilities, or if they have it under consideration already?
It's not quite free in Dun Laoghaire - it is built into the annual standing charge.
If I use the black bin in Dunlaoghaire Rathdown the green bin is free. However if I opt out of the black bin I have to pay for the green bin. Just back from a short break in France. I noticed old T.V's, chairs, bits of metal. tins of paint and other large items left outside on the street. These were collected by the local council. Why can't we have a service like this?
In county cork we pay 31 euro a calendar month for our refuse collection to a private firm. The recycling bin is collected every second week as is the regular bin. The only incentive to recycle is that the regular bin is only collected fortnightly so would fill up too quick without recycling.
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