cheapest waste collection in maynooth

bittihuduga

which one has the cheapest bin collection in maynooth?

i am currently on county council bin collection
they told me it is around 130euros (not sure)
and plus 8euro tag for the bin.

i put out my bins once in 3 weeks..so not much of high end user

any suggestions?

guil

i work for aes and they offer 4 bins, green is general waste, blue is recycling, brown is organic and a glass bin aswell, the green is collected this week, next week will be blue and brown, then green again next week, the glass is collected the first week of each month
green is €6.20 per collection, brown is €3 per collection and the blue and glass are free, pm me if ya want the number for the rep

CptSternn

I have found Thorntons to be the cheapest myself, which is why I use them.

It's €280 a year, they give you big bins, they are collected weekly. One flat fee, three bins (green/recycling, brown/compost, black/rubbish), pay once and yer done. (http://www.thorntons-recycling.ie/)

Allied charges €329 for the same service and they only collect every two weeks. (http://www.alliedwaste.ie/)

The County Council charges €185, but then charge like €8 per collection, and if you have them collect it every week that totals €416 making it €601 for the year.

* Standard 240 litre bin: €185 plus €8 tag
* Small 140 litre bin: €140 plus €5.50 tag

http://kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/Environment/Recycle/GreenBinRecycling/

Orion

With Thorntons it's based on your usage too. They average out your prior year's weight in the black bin to calculate your current year charges. They have 4 weight/charge bands iirc. I'm with them too. An AES rep called to the door last week and I'm considering changing. I just need to do my calculations and see if they'll be cheaper for me. I do like that they do a glass collection too - only one that does.

There's O'Hagan's as well but I've no idea of their charges.

guil

Macros42 wrote: »

With Thorntons it's based on your usage too. They average out your prior year's weight in the black bin to calculate your current year charges. They have 4 weight/charge bands iirc. I'm with them too. An AES rep called to the door last week and I'm considering changing. I just need to do my calculations and see if they'll be cheaper for me. I do like that they do a glass collection too - only one that does.

There's O'Hagan's as well but I've no idea of their charges.

did the rep have glasses:D
i collect all the aes bins in north kildare, they have only started collections around the area over the last 2 or 3 months

Orion

Don't recall tbh. I was getting my twin daughters ready for bed when you/he called ... ring a bell?

CptSternn

Macros42 wrote: »

With Thorntons it's based on your usage too. They average out your prior year's weight in the black bin to calculate your current year charges. They have 4 weight/charge bands iirc.

Thats optional. After one year they give you the option to pay by weight, or stick with the flat fee.

shazza07

guil07 wrote: »

i work for aes and they offer 4 bins, green is general waste, blue is recycling, brown is organic and a glass bin aswell, the green is collected this week, next week will be blue and brown, then green again next week, the glass is collected the first week of each month
green is €6.20 per collection, brown is €3 per collection and the blue and glass are free, pm me if ya want the number for the rep

I'm from Prosperous and phoned AES yesterday, woman on phone gave these figures but also said they're was a flat fee of €148 (feb - dec) on top of paying €6.40 per green bin, which I worked out that if you got your green bin collected every week & paid yearly fee it comes to €480.
I am with O Hagan's at the moment and it costs me €380 per year and thats green bin collected weekly & blue bin every 2nd week but they don't have glass bin..

guil

Macros42 wrote: »

Don't recall tbh. I was getting my twin daughters ready for bed when you/he called ... ring a bell?

i'm not the rep, just the truck driver:D

dobsdave

CptSternn wrote: »

Thats optional. After one year they give you the option to pay by weight, or stick with the flat fee.

I'm on the heaviest band, its 365 euro.
Do you think they would let me pay the flat fee instead?

guil

shazza07 wrote: »

I'm from Prosperous and phoned AES yesterday, woman on phone gave these figures but also said they're was a flat fee of €148 (feb - dec) on top of paying €6.40 per green bin, which I worked out that if you got your green bin collected every week & paid yearly fee it comes to €480.
I am with O Hagan's at the moment and it costs me €380 per year and thats green bin collected weekly & blue bin every 2nd week but they don't have glass bin..

really i didnt know there was a yearly fee,
not sure what day ur bin would be collected but this week all morth kildare is green, next week is blue and brown, if ya empty all ur bins over a fortnight would cost €9.40, the green is every second week, ur only charged when its collected aswell, each bin is chipped and tied to ur account
so for the year it would be €9.40*26=€244.40+€148= €392.40
alot of the customers dont empty the bins every week either so ya could save that way to

JDxtra

Allied collect the standard (large size) bin every week, its just the blue bin that is bi-weekly. Good value for the service IMO.

guil

aes used to do the same before they brought in the brown bins, they would need a lot of new trucks and drivers/helpers to keep it that way, the trucks are a bit over a quarter of a million each

Trampas

I am with aes after been with CC

You will hardly ever put out the green bin and more often you will have the brown and blue bin out. So bins are very little.

Depends on how often you put your bin out

pmsurveys

I'm with Aes in kildare too. Using the pay by lift with the recycling bin and the general waste bin every week would cost 314 per year including the 148 charge. As you generally don't leave the bin out every week especially with holidays, it will work out cheaper than that and the max weight per bin is 60 kilos which is cheaper than Thorntons on a weight basis. I also use the brown bin which takes an awfully long time to fill and only costs 3 euro a lift. It's also nice to know that not everything is going to landfill.....but composting as well

MickH503

guil wrote: »

i work for aes and they offer 4 bins, green is general waste, blue is recycling, brown is organic and a glass bin aswell, the green is collected this week, next week will be blue and brown, then green again next week, the glass is collected the first week of each month
green is €6.20 per collection, brown is €3 per collection and the blue and glass are free, pm me if ya want the number for the rep

Is this http://www.aesirl.ie the same company you're talking about? The site doesn't mention that they cover Maynooth ... do you know if they do? I like the idea of a brown bin!

bittihuduga

im moving from county council to AES now.
i have stuff in my cc bin.
do i have to empty and give them the empty bins when the guys come to take away the cc bins?
pls advice?

guil

mickh503 - yeah its the same company, if ya pm me i'll give ya the reps number

bittihuduga - pm me ur address and i'll keep an eye out for it

MickH503

guil wrote: »

mickh503 - yeah its the same company, if ya pm me i'll give ya the reps number

Thanks Guil, but I signed up with Thorntons after all ...

penexpers

I was with AES, now with Thorntons. Thorntons guarantee 280 for the first year and by weight after that, though they claim most people end up in the 280 euro band.

I had no problems with AES though, they were 32 euro flat fee a month which worked out at over 360 a year. I didn't realise that AES had a pay by lift system, but I don't think it would have worked out cheaper.

I really don't understand why people still use the CC - buying bin tags should be consigned to the past.

Hey Guil - I cancelled AES about 4 months ago and they still haven't picked up the bins, despite multiple reminders. Any ideas? They are sitting outside waiting to be picked up.

sadista

Yes they serve Maynooth, I live there and I signed up to them 3 weeks ago.I have only put my green bin out once and it prob wont go out again for another 3 weeks as we recycle so much and the compost bin is great too and takes ages to fill up, not even quarter full yet and we do alot of cooking from scratch so plenty of food waste to go into it.

The glass container has taken 50 beer bottles so far & counting which is also great if you dont have the time to run down the bottle bank!

kaie89

hei,
Can anybody tell me what actually goes into the green bin? general waste,but what does it mean.Im doing the garbage sorting first time so I dont really know.
Thanks for help.:)

Orion

Anything recylable - paper, cardboard, tins (washed), cans, some accept plastic bottles.

MickH503

kaie89 wrote: »

hei,
Can anybody tell me what actually goes into the green bin? general waste,but what does it mean.Im doing the garbage sorting first time so I dont really know.
Thanks for help.:)

Hei,
Some info can be found below on two different waste collection companies ...

Kildare County Council:
http://kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/Environment/Recycle/GreenBinRecycling/

Thorntons:
http://www.thorntons-recycling.ie/e_greenbin.php

Moonbeam

I priced them recently and THorntons were the cheapest by a good bit.

Kaie89 - did you not get the leaflet with it?

Riskymove

i'm with AES and its going well


we would not have the bins out every time

using recycling, but the brown bin in particular, will reduce the amount in the regular rubbish quite dramatically in my experience

kaie89

Moonbeam wrote: »

I priced them recently and THorntons were the cheapest by a good bit.

Kaie89 - did you not get the leaflet with it?

Im in AES,I got a leaflet what to but in blue recycling bin and in brown organic bin but not what goes into green bin.

celticcrash

I am with AES in Limerick. paid them over a month ago.
Have not had a bin collected since than.
Trying to get my money back for the last week and they keep
On telling me that the accounts person to deal with this is in meetings.
And that person has not had the decency to call me back.
This company does not care one bit about its customers.:mad::mad::mad:

LeixlipRed

kaie89 wrote: »

Im in AES,I got a leaflet what to but in blue recycling bin and in brown organic bin but not what goes into green bin.

I would assume everything else that doesn't go in the blue or brown then.

guil

Macros42 wrote: »

Anything recylable - paper, cardboard, tins (washed), cans, some accept plastic bottles.

different companies use different colours, with AES green is general waste, blue is recycling and brown is compostable materials

namurt

Just switched over to AES. Nice shiny new bins came yesterday. I'm just wondering do people put waste directly into the brown bin or do you put it in a bag first. Up until now I've just had the normal and recycling bin with the Co. Council. I keep all recycling rubbish in paper bags before putting into the bin should I do the same with the organic waste?

Riskymove

namurt wrote: »

Just switched over to AES. Nice shiny new bins came yesterday. I'm just wondering do people put waste directly into the brown bin or do you put it in a bag first. Up until now I've just had the normal and recycling bin with the Co. Council. I keep all recycling rubbish in paper bags before putting into the bin should I do the same with the organic waste?

you can get compostable/green bags for food rubbish

alternatively paper bags would do as they would breakdown too

I was advised by aes rep to put some cardboard at the bottom of the bin also to help keep clean

namurt

Thanks for that. I meant to ask them what they recommend when I phoned earlier but forgot.

Think I'll get the bags because otherwise I'd imagine both the bin in the house and the outside bin would be very hard to keep clean.

Riskymove

namurt wrote: »

Thanks for that. I meant to ask them what they recommend when I phoned earlier but forgot.

Think I'll get the bags because otherwise I'd imagine both the bin in the house and the outside bin would be very hard to keep clean.

yes, after a while of messing about we bought a bin for the house that is divided into two compartments, one specifically designed for their compostable bag size

Joe Public

I think the new pay as you go system with Thorntons is the cheapest for low volume domestic waste as in my case. I reckon I'll be able to do it for less that €100 per annum.

€7.98 per pickup for the 240 litre grey domestic waste bin, Green recycling bin is free and brown compost bin is €3.98 per pickup.

There are no other charges and all you have to do is make sure your account is in credit the same as for a mobile phone. You can top up your account on line.

I didn't start using the "pay as you go" system yet but a neighbour of mine is since January and they are the only charges according to them.

guil

Joe Public wrote: »

I think the new pay as you go system with Thorntons is the cheapest for low volume domestic waste as in my case. I reckon I'll be able to do it for less that €100 per annum.

€7.98 per pickup for the 240 litre grey domestic waste bin, Green recycling bin is free and brown compost bin is €3.98 per pickup.

There are no other charges and all you have to do is make sure your account is in credit the same as for a mobile phone. You can top up your account on line.

I didn't start using the "pay as you go" system yet but a neighbour of mine is since January and they are the only charges according to them.

it says on the website that pay by lift is only available in dublin

Joe Public

guil wrote: »

it says on the website that pay by lift is only available in dublin

Have a look under the "Meath and Kildare Customers" section here
http://www.thorntons-recycling.ie/domestic-introduction

and you will find
"Thorntons will be offering the Pay as You Go method to customers during 2011. "

guil

ah never saw that, just skipped over it

mad hatters

I've recently changed to Thorntons Recycling and I need to get rid of the old county councils bins.. I 've tried ringing the Kildare County Council but I keep getting voicemails.

Any idea's where to get rid of them in Maynooth?

namurt

I phoned Kildare County council and they said the bins had to be empty before they picked them up, so I've to ring back after the collection this week. I asked could they not just make a note to take the bin with them when they empty it but she said no, I have to ring back. I now have 5 bins outside the house!

Joe Public

The people who empty the bins have no way of taking away the bins, collecting and dropping empty bins is done separately.

bittihuduga

i just emailed them for cancellation of my account and take back the empty bins which they did promptly in 2weeks time. try it.

bittihuduga

Riskymove wrote: »

yes, after a while of messing about we bought a bin for the house that is divided into two compartments, one specifically designed for their compostable bag size

can you please suggest where to buy the compostable bin bags?

Riskymove

bittihuduga wrote: »

can you please suggest where to buy the compostable bin bags?

they are generally sold in most supermarkets

I bought a Branbia bin and if I want to get the branbia bags made specifically for that size bin, they are sold in woodies and superquinn

namurt

Hi Joe Public,

The reason I asked could they not take it was because just before Christmas they took my bin by mistake (apparently it ended up in the dump truck) and I had to get a new one.

Makes sense that it would normally be done seperately though.

Bittihuduga, I got the bags in Tesco the other day.

Solnskaya

Just get a mate to run your garbage over to Kerdiffstown and chuck it wherever you like for free. Seems to have worked out well for all the others that were doing it and they saved a fortune not having to meet all those pesky rules and red tape. :rolleyes: I find AES to be quite good, on a more seriouse note. Collections can be a bit erratic time wise though.

guil

namurt wrote: »

Hi Joe Public,

The reason I asked could they not take it was because just before Christmas they took my bin by mistake (apparently it ended up in the dump truck) and I had to get a new one.

Makes sense that it would normally be done seperately though.

Bittihuduga, I got the bags in Tesco the other day.

of course they can take them and will most of the time if ya ask them
bins fall into the back all the time so its no big deal

Le_Dieux

guil wrote: »

i work for aes and they offer 4 bins, green is general waste, blue is recycling, brown is organic and a glass bin aswell, the green is collected this week, next week will be blue and brown, then green again next week, the glass is collected the first week of each month
green is €6.20 per collection, brown is €3 per collection and the blue and glass are free, pm me if ya want the number for the rep

Guil, can You please let us know the email address for AES? I have serious issues with Your accounting 'dept' ( no complaints about the bin collection). I emailed them yesterday, and would have expected some sort of response by end of business today, but nothing. I used the email address stated on the 'invoice' for 2011 ( info@aesirl.ie ).

AES have some serious DISsatisfied customers in our estate in Newbridge right now.

guil

hi i dont know any email address other than the one ya mentioned, have ya tried ringing on 045-439900

whoami1

I might as well jump in here. I'm extremely dissatisfied with AES and their alleged green bin collection in Celbridge, our experience of which goes something like this:

• Leave green bin out on Sunday night for Monday morning collection;
• Bin not collected;
• Ring AES - "oh yeah leave it out tonight"
• Leave bin out
• Bin not collected;
• Ring AES - "oh yeah leave it out tonight"
• Leave bin out
• Bin not collected;
• Ring AES - "oh yeah leave it out tonight"
• Leave bin out
• Bin eventually collected, sometimes a week later.
• Following week, leave green bin out on Sunday night for Monday morning collection.

And so on...

Very poor service.

:mad:

Also sent them an e-mail on Monday afternoon, reply due in "1-2 business days", no reply yet.

Staplor

I find Mahons to be excellent, and get great service whenever I ring, there's a lady dealing with their accounts section who is a gem to deal with.