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Bin Charges

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  • 02-08-2007 11:20am
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    JimiMac
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭


    When a house is being rented, who pays the bin charges- the landlord or the tenant?


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    markpb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,268 ✭✭✭markpb


    That horrible answer... it depends. Some landlords will pay it, some expect their tennants to pay it. Any place I've rented, the tennant had to pay it.


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    RIRI
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭RIRI


    Any house I've rented it's been the tenants responsibility, but when we rented an apartment the landlord paid them probably because they're part of the management fees.


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    BC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭BC


    Its the tenants reponsibility in anywhere i've rented also.


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I've never paid it, but I've been renting apartments and not houses. I would imagine that in those places covered by a management company you'd be less likely to have to fork out, assuming the owner is paying the management fee (which I hope they'd be obliged to).


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    D'Peoples Voice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭D'Peoples Voice


    JimiMac wrote:
    When a house is being rented, who pays the bin charges- the landlord or the tenant?
      If you are in an appartment, there is no incentive to save waste as there is a standing charge which is paid out of management charges - landlords pays it.
      If you are living in a house where there pay-as-you-use or polluter-pays bin charge imposed by the council, the tenant determines the amount of waste and in turn the amount of times the bin is put out! - tenant pays


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    patrickolee
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    Any apartments or houses I've rented, I've had to pay. Usually the renter. The purpose of introducing the charges was to incourage people to reduce waste.... and it works.


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    radioactiveman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭radioactiveman


    i've been a landlord in the past and didn't charge tenants for bintags (I was staying there myself as well). It's good from the tenants point of view because they're not paying for every household expense the landlord has, but there's no incentive to reduce their waste at all. There was no incentive at all for them to recycle, so everything went into 'landfill' waste - tetrapaks, tins, milk containers you name it..


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    Kipperhell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭Kipperhell


    The tenant is meant to pay but the landlord is responsible to make sure they take care of the waste. So it depends on who you rent to.


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    JimiMac
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭JimiMac


      If you are living in a house where there pay-as-you-use or polluter-pays bin charge imposed by the council, the tenant determines the amount of waste and in turn the amount of times the bin is put out! - tenant pays
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    I've no problem with the lift charges because I do make the effort to reduce the amount of waste.
    However the standing charge stays the same no matter what, even if I dumped no waste at all. Do you mean the total bill or just the 'lift' charges?


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    patrickolee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 890 ✭✭✭patrickolee


    Total bill I would have thought. Sorry man, you're gonna have to pay ;)


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    The_Conductor
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    JimiMac wrote:
    I've no problem with the lift charges because I do make the effort to reduce the amount of waste.
    However the standing charge stays the same no matter what, even if I dumped no waste at all. Do you mean the total bill or just the 'lift' charges?

    The idea is that the "Polluter Pays" principle is to be rolled out across the board- aka you pay for the amount of waste that you produce. Oddly enough- this entirely reasonable principle has been fought hand over foot by quite a few of the councils here- and its only being implemented after EU rulings against Ireland on the matter. The annual levy on top of bin tags- or lifting fees, are all to be gotten rid of, in place of a purely tagged system. They are also to be a lot more strict about what can be binned as household waste- the target being to bring out recycling levels up to European norms (that is the norms of the old EU15.......)


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    wasim21k
    Registered Users Posts: 438 ✭✭wasim21k


    i lived in flat in dublin but lanlord start asking bin charges. friend of mine live in flat south dublin dont pay charges (include in rent) i think its really depend on landlord if you are renting a place ask before.


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    D'Peoples Voice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭D'Peoples Voice


    JimiMac wrote:
    I've no problem with the lift charges because I do make the effort to reduce the amount of waste.
    However the standing charge stays the same no matter what, even if I dumped no waste at all. Do you mean the total bill or just the 'lift' charges?
    The standing charge exists because someone has to pay for the bin lorry to drive pass your house even if you have no rubbish, you have the option, and you must pay for that option, or at least you did! (Not sure about the recent EU legislation program). The landlord does not benefit from this option, hence the tenant pays for the option!


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