Bins

xzanti

Driving to work this morning, I had the pleasure of being stuck behind a bin truck on a narrow street.. As I had nothing better to do I observed the men and they were picking up black sacks of rubbish along with the wheelybins.. I could be wrong but were we not told that any rubbish not inside the wheelybins would not be collected.. Was that not the point of issuing wheelybins in the first place and I've been practically standing in our bin trying to get all our rubbish in.. If Id known they'd take bags I'd have done that all along... :rolleyes:

Can anyone clear this up for me? Scuse the pun...:D

Heyes

thats what i thought was suppose to be implemented, and ive had bags left behind on some bin days because it wouldnt fit in the bin... maybe you just caught them on a good day who knows :rolleyes:

humbert

Think you have ot get a sticker for a black bag. I did. Dunno if it depends in some way on your location.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Some bin men are just more generous than others.

Dragan

You can buy stickers for bin bags, it means the collection is paid for and they will take them then.

ScumLord

Wers sell bags in the shops for people who don't want to get the bins. If you have to much rubbish you can buy the bags and leave them beside the bins. The only reason they won't take bags is because they can't weigh them and put them on your bill.

Overheal

I was under the idea that not everywhere was pay by weight yet...maybe thats where this is happening??

Wertz

For people who don't want to pay a quarterly rate for their wheeled bin, you can just buy stickers/tags for your refuse sacks and leave those in the street instead. You have to oay for the actual bin these days so for a lot of people, it might be just too expensive or unwarranted since they mightn't need to leave a full wheelie out every week...

eirebhoy

For some reason my area in Dublin south city centre never got wheelie bins. We still have the old system of throwing our bins at the corner the day they're being collected. €8.40 for 3 bin tags.

Kolodny

Where I live, they won't pick up any loose bags beside the bin. They won't pick up your bin at all any more if you don't leave it right at the edge of the footpath, with the handles facing into the road!

HelterSkelter

Kolodny wrote:

Where I live, they won't pick up any loose bags beside the bin. They won't pick up your bin at all any more if you don't leave it right at the edge of the footpath, with the handles facing into the road!

Where we live we pay nothing and just throw the bins into the bin lorry ourselves

super_furry

Just put a biscuit on top and they'll take it. Binmen LOVE biscuits.

John Mason

xzanti wrote:

Driving to work this morning, I had the pleasure of being stuck behind a bin truck on a narrow street.. As I had nothing better to do I observed the men and they were picking up black sacks of rubbish along with the wheelybins.. I could be wrong but were we not told that any rubbish not inside the wheelybins would not be collected.. Was that not the point of issuing wheelybins in the first place and I've been practically standing in our bin trying to get all our rubbish in.. If Id known they'd take bags I'd have done that all along... :rolleyes:

Can anyone clear this up for me? Scuse the pun...:D

well you should be Recycling your rubbish in the first place, so i have no idea how you would have so much you would need to stand on the bin:mad:

Stephen P

In Dublin City Council's area there's a wheelie bin service and a bag collection service. The bag collection service is only for area's where there a wheelie bin cannot be accomodated (i.e households with no front garden), although there are area's where a wheelie bin could be accomodated but its a bag collection currently. There is a wheelie bin service being rolled out (no pun intended) in these area's at the moment.
If a bag if left beside a wheelie bin (with or without a tag) the bin men shouldn't take the bag. If that area is a wheelie bin area ONLY then bags aren't accepted. BUT there are area's where there is a mixed collection service (wheelie bins & bags) but it's one or the other, you can't put out a wheelie bin and bags.
You'll always get bin men who collect extra bags that are left beside the bin. In DCC's area its a quarterly charge for the wheelie bin service (€22 standing charge & €5.50 per lift (large bin) regardless if the bin is full or half full, this is to encourage recycling).

Hope that clarifies things for some people!
I'm the unfortunate one that deals with the above daily :rolleyes:

xzanti

irishbird wrote:

well you should be Recycling your rubbish in the first place, so i have no idea how you would have so much you would need to stand on the bin:mad:

The bin is shared between 6 apartments.. Landlord is too cheap to fork out for individual bins... We recycle paper and glass bottles.. mmkay?

brianthebard

irishbird wrote:

well you should be Recycling your rubbish in the first place, so i have no idea how you would have so much you would need to stand on the bin:mad:

Yes cause so much of our waste is actually recycled, as opposed to being, oh I don't know, shipped to china or dumped in a landfill of glass?:rolleyes: Recycling only works if the waste is actually recycled.

magpie

Just burn your rubbish on your balcony in a constantly-lit brazier. No bin fees and a lovely 'Dickensian' smog to add free atmosphere.

Or just drop all your rubbish on the ground like the skangers do.

tallus

Overheal wrote:

I was under the idea that not everywhere was pay by weight yet...maybe thats where this is happening??

Agreed Overheal
I have to put an €8 tag on my wheelie bin every time i put it out. There is no other charge that I'm aware of, and obviously it's not weighed if the price is the same for every collection?