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Street waste bin design

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  • 15-02-2015 12:11am
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    Impetus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭


    A picture of a well designed waste recycling disposal bin, used in Geneva. Multi-lingual, clean, easy to empty and easy to decide which compartment to use for the item you want to dispose of - whatever language you speak or even if you are illiterate.

    http://chilp.it/e7bca9e


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    Macha
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    And yet in Ireland we're still waiting for street recycling bins to be widespread *sigh*


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    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    In Enniscorthy the council have been removing expensive new bins as they think that they act as dumping magnets.

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    Impetus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    In Enniscorthy the council have been removing expensive new bins as they think that they act as dumping magnets.

    In which event they need to put a camera on a few of them, capture evidence and make an example of abusers of the system.

    It is basically a selling job to get the public to comply with waste sorting, or else face higher costs in the form of LPT and waste collection charges. It is cheaper to be clean, better for the environment, and makes the place more attractive.

    Abusers of the system might be "fined" by having to work at a conveyor belt in a recycling factory, selecting waste to be thrown into different bins....


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