Tesco Recycling Machine - Changes

uktim29

harryhound wrote: »

Perhaps the council could offer pence off the council tax bill to recyclers, because I think people need a small incentive.

Why do you need an incentive to put one thing in one bin and another into another bin?

harryhound

Personally I don't need an incentive, I've been doing it for years.
However the British recycling figures a pitiful compared with the Germanic and Scandinavian people.
The choice is stick or carrot. In parts of Canada you have to pay by the bin.
In New York if recyclables are spotted in with the trash, then your bin won't be emptied.
In Switzerland your neighbours will inspect your trash and tell you where you are going wrong.
Meanwhile here in the UK there are a lot of people who think they are "above" sorting rubbish, they a probably the same sort of people who get out the 4X4 to go get a Sunday paper from a shop half a mile away.
(There is another sort who presented with "stick", simple respond by fly tipping - usually up my lane).
So we need a "carrot" to incentivise people to "bother" to keep a calendar and put out the right stuff in the right box on the appropriate day.

uktim29

So we don't need an incentive or a carrot. What actually works then is a negative consequence if people don't recycle. That kind of kills the Tesco clubcard points argument dead then.

Carmina_Piranha_3

how many people has this happened to?

my recycling machine hasn't changed, and i got 33 points yesterday. the bus takes us halfway to tesco then we walk. it was more than a week's recycling, so i'd have been annoyed if the machines had changed all of a sudden.

C_Ronaldo

harryhound wrote: »

Has the manager of the Pitsea (Essex) Tesco chickened out of stopping the points?

its not the manager who decides about the points its HO

C_Ronaldo

uktim29 wrote: »

Why do you need an incentive to put one thing in one bin and another into another bin?

some people are evidently lazy, theres people who will recycle and others who just wont whether its becuase theyre lazy or if they think its not theyre job to do

harryhound

Here is the answer to my own question.
We are saving over 3 pence per kilo in tax by recycling and that is without adding in the costs of collecting the waste door to door and the charges of the company that owns the hole/heap, where the trash is dumped:

• the standard rate - £32 per tonne in the 2008/09 tax year and increasing by £8 per tonne each year from April 2009 until at least 2010/11

dexters_mum_2

We don't have one of those machines but I take my own bags and they always forget to give me my green clubcard points at the checkout, go to customer services to get them put on every time and wait for at least 20 minutes each time

giovanni

I know this is an old thread but my local tesco seems to have these machines - what are the point values like now.

harryhound

The story has got going again on another thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=22057777#post22057777

Was it just a short term public relations exercise?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=978651