And now they want to weigh my rubbish?

Mankysteve

ploder wrote: »

, but the impetus is the stick from the EU and once again highlights how our system is being hollowed-out and becoming a mere shell for less accountable EU law and bureaucracy.

Were an island nation and are running out of suitable space to stick landfill so regardless of EU legislation something still has to be done. Shame it takes the EU to force us to act, the uk government has a very poor record of environmental protection lots of the measure taken have been force on the Uk by the EU. Remember most polution is transboundary so as such its aproate for a multinational governmental body to act upon it.

el_gringo_3

I take it these are mostly southern and rural places doing this? I can't see how it would help up here.

I live in inner city Leeds, where around 50% of houses don't have any form of garden, mine included. Each terrace has a 'bin yard' at the end of every four houses.

The bin yard contains any number of different sized bins, who decides this I don't know - we have two normal sized recycling bins, one normal sized all waste bin and three 'thin' all waste bins. Opposite have three normal sized waste bins and one recyc bin. Not one is assigned to an individual house.


In terms of bin theft and misuse, the problems round here I can't see being helped by a bin chip:

1. 'Wacky' students stealing them to dump on top of cars or set up roadblocks, or running down the street at 3am kicking every single one over.

2. Local businesses - who have to pay for waste collection - dumping in residential bins. We had piles of takeway flyers dumped in our yard - which the tip wouldn't accept from me as I don't have a licence for trade waste!

3. Kids ripping them apart to use as makeshift sledges - both our recyc bins had to be replaced the other day as the lids are missing.

4. Landlords and letting agents ripping out whole houses and dumping the lot in the bin yard, leaving no access to bins.

Interestingly, I don't forsee masses of bonfires suddenly started up - we went several months with no refuse services and most of us simply dumped our bags in bins around the city centre and retail parks.

trisontana

Huge Rise In People Being Blackmailed By Their Own Wheelie Bins

The_Moog_2

trisontana wrote: »

This from the Mailwatch website:-

The chips are for no other reason than allowing the council to identify the individual bin.

The chips link a bin to an individual house. So that if they get stolen, or somebody is wrongly using someone else's bin, this can be identified.

The councils basically have problems with bins being stolen, and households using more than one bin. As in, stealing other people's.

The chips allow these bins to be found, and these people be identified, when it happens.

That really is it.

Chris James
Kingswood Borough Council (Bristol)

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I smell .....................bull s**t

Indeed.

Kingswood Borough Council was abolished in the mid 90s for one thing :rotfl: