Mayo Co Co to charge for recycling

yop

It seems our trips to the bring centre to recylce our rubbish will now be charged. I for one am totally disgusted, they want people to recycle but yet our efforts to try and improve our environment is now going to be penalised.

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=530&Itemid=38

Oldtree

It isn't encouraging news. The only way it will work is if its cheaper for people to recycle rather than to landfill.

I've beaten the bin man by going to the dump every six weeks or so, as long as I have another reason for going castlebar so as not to waste a journey. I compact, by standing on it, a lot of rubbish into about two bags @ €4 each, recycle my glass, cans, metal, paper, etc.

it appears also that MCC are going to force everyone to prove where their waste is going. not a bad thing really as over 40% of household waste in Mayo is unaccounted for. No doubt the majority of that goes up the chimney or onto the bonfire out the back.

Do-more

Oldtree wrote:

it appears also that MCC are going to force everyone to prove where their waste is going. not a bad thing really as over 40% of household waste in Mayo is unaccounted for. No doubt the majority of that goes up the chimney or onto the bonfire out the back.

Mayo could turn into little Switzerland! I'm told that it's law there to have a sensor fitted in your chimmney so that they can monitor if your burn any plastics an so on...

Heavy fines for offenders, great idea IMO.

yop

Aye, I do agree that we should account for our rubbish but charging for recycling defeats the purpose.
I would be the same as you alright, I am amazed how "well" it is going and it looks like that I have my parents now also heading the same direction of recycling and composting.
We have gone from 2 bags a weeks to 1 bag every 2.5 weeks.
Trips to the Newport tip happens every 5 weeks.
Yet to setup the composter but that will be done also.

Oldtree

While the bye law may be passed MCC are very poor at enforcement and there is unlightly to be any followthrough.

bonkey

Do-more wrote:

I'm told that it's law there to have a sensor fitted in your chimmney so that they can monitor if your burn any plastics an so on...

I live there, and I'm not aware of any such law. It may exist in certain Cantons, but I don't believe its in the national legislation. They do have very strict monitoring controls on incinerators and other industrial chimneys, but not on the domestic stuff.

We pay for our normal rubbish collection (charged by volume), and for visits to the incinerator (charged by weight). Aluminium, PET, batteries, any electrical goods, used oil, paper, flourescent (and in some places normal) light bulbs, poisons, medicines, old tires, stone, ceramic, scrap metal, animal corpses, empty aerosol containers, and more.....are all catered for free of charge - either for correct disposal or recycling.

In many cases, you drop the stuff back to a retailer. It doesn't have to be where you bought it - you don't need a receipt. Anywhere that sells the same type of stuff is required to accept it back.

So with batteries, I can drop them into a local shop. Medicines to any chemist. And so on. No charge.

Well...sort of a charge...

You may be charged a small percentage on purchase of items to cover eventual disposal costs. Can't remember what it is. Maybe 1 or 2 percent, possibly less. Doesn't matter. You pay for disposal when you buy the thing. Disposing is then paid for. When disposal time comes, its free. If you bought it before those laws came in, its still free.

When we had our fridge replaced recently, we had the new one delivered, and simply told the guy "take care of this, would you" and the old one was history.

We can pick up large bin-bags for storing empty aluminium at our local council office. Free of charge.

They make it easy. You pay, but not a lot, and only when you buy the stuff.

Heavy fines for offenders, great idea IMO.

Yup.

I've heard stories that they do spot-checks on rubbish bags over here. If you're caught dumping something that should be disposed of properly (whatever about not recycling...I'm talking about throwing out batteries, electrical goods, etc.) you get slapped happy.

Either which way....heavy fines are a must, as long as the laws are fair and workable.

jc

pauln

Waterford County Council have been charging with a good while and it makes recycling a very expensive buisness indeed, totally counter productive.
I'm in west Waterford and if I go to the recycling center at the old Dungarvan landfill I get charged but if I go to the Youghal one it's free, go figure.
A bit of joint-up thinking by the government/county councils on this one and we and the environment would all be better off.
The EU are taking legal actions against Ireland for the amount of fly tipping going on but yet the government are charging us to recycle, it's idiotic. I can see ilegal dumping all around the Dungarvan center because people go to the centre but the cost is so high/they don't have enough tags to cover what they have then they just dump it on the way home.

road_high

Kilkenny coco charge a fee of 2euro for use of the civic amenity facility, this a per car basis. Trailors cost a bit more. That said it is an excellent service and worth it really cos you recycle pretty much anything there!

pauln

Just to follow up:
The RED tags are €30.00 each!!
The Dry Recyclables sacks are €2.25 each!!

Trying to be enviromentally friendly at these kind of prices is very expensive and put's alot of people right off it. :mad:

Dundalk Daily

Dundalk charge €2 into the recycling area, they claimed when it opened that recycling would always be free but introduced the charge to enter the place. Also it costs €6 or €7 per black bag. I also couldnt believe the price difference between some of the skip companies locally, a difference of €70 for the same bin between two companies. If the charges for bins and recycling keep going up it will force people into burning and illegal dumping.