What local authority area?kaygo said:My last bill (a month ago) for a few bags of rubbish in a pair of colored bins cost me over 500 eur. Where will this madness end?
Are there no other possibilities in your area?kaygo said:It doesnt matter how many bags you use - you pay for the wheelies - even if they are empty!kaygo
Danmo said:However I would not condone illegal dumping under any circumstances. It's disgusting and irresponsible.
OK - so this was misleading then?kaygo said:OK,the 500 was for the year
kaygo said:My last bill (a month ago) for a few bags of rubbish in a pair of colored bins cost me over 500 eur.
I thought that you could opt out and make your own arrangements for waste disposal if you so choose?It doesnt matter how many bags you use - you pay for the wheelies - even if they are empty!
These could be disposed of at your local recycling/Bring centre for free.a few cardboard boxes and newspapers
Non meat organic matter can be composted for free (well apart from the cost of the compost bin which are usually sold at discount prices by local authorities).and a few bags of chicken bones and rotton food.
Danmo said:In Fingal, you pay per use i.e. the tag system. We only put our refuse/grey bin out once a month. We recycled as much as possible in the green bin, had a compost bin and also recycled all glass and clothes. However now we live in an area where we pay a fixed charge of €90 per quarter regardless of how often or little you put your bin out. We still recycle but there is no incentive to do so.
I'm a family of 4, one in nappies another just out of nappies and a stay at home mum. Our bin is exclusively ashes from the fire, nappies and leftover cooked food
Lorz said:Incidentally the €400 that I pay is payable regardless of the number of collections and the amount of recycling that I do! Goes against the principal of "polluter pays!". By recycling some of my waste and therefore reducing the qty for landfill, I should pay less than my neighbour who couldn't be bothered recycling - but I don't. Apparently the council are working on this and we should all be using the "pay-by-weight" system very soon - by council standards that could be years!
Wasn't that on the introduction of the green bin which is collected every month?bb12 said:€3:50 per bin to €6
Fingal are just trying to get an excuse to slap a yearly charge on. They see people putting out rubbish as customers not eco-sensitive souls. Fingal took ages to have the green bins available in all areas. People are recycling their rubbish more to save themselves money, not burning. There are very few (although there are some) backyard fires that i ever see. People should report them. Anyway, most of the rubbish that you cant recycle wont burn properly, so if you tried to burn it you will only end up with a mess of a garden.bb12 said:Fingal have recently put up the price of their bin collection from €3:50 per bin to €6 and they're already starting to complain about people putting out less rubbish now. I reckon there's a lot more back yard burning going on as a direct result of this. If there was a compulsory charge on every household in the country and proper green bins circulated to them all, then all these problems would be stamped out immediately.
I'm not width you - perhaps you can explain?minion said:Imagine Fingal telling people with one breadth ...
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