NOBODY needs to pay bin charges

Demonon

My folks are very old fashioned and don't use the recycling bin (green bin) I know it's blue in some areas, but anyway this is a free service regardless. I told them you can put all paper, plastic packaging, cans, etc, into it.

The only things you can't put in are glass and food, but there are about a million bottle banks within a mile of my house, and waste food can be taken care of by buying once off , a cheap compost bin.

At the moment they are paying like €150/year I think it is, and then around €8/week for the black bin collection. This amounts to over €550/year that I've just saved them!

Uriel.

Congratulations to you. Be sure to put that on your cv now won't you. 

Cypher_sounds

I dont pay for bins myself, just have to cough up for the lighter that makes my rubbish dissapear :eek::D

MadPatrick

I have an elderly couple living next door whose smart ass kid tried to save them money by not using their bins. So now I just use their bin:cool:

--LOS--

Most of the time we only use the green and brown bins. Also plastic bags can't go in the green bin and there's a lift charge for the brown bin. But what you're forgetting is there's still a standing charge anyway for the service.

M5

Dont you have to pay for your regular bin in order to have your recycling bin collected?

--LOS--

M5 wrote: »

Dont you have to pay for your regular bin in order to have your recycling bin collected?

There's a standing charge for the bin service in general, after that the green bin is free and the brown and black bins are charged per lift.

Why am I even saying this, look it up yourself!

Jev/N

Thread needs to be recycled :pac:

bins need to be paid for out of a property tax, it'll stop all the dumping thats going on.

The bogs here are littered with black bags! :mad:

cian1500ww

Sounds like to much work to me

stovelid

We're Irish.

Excellent services should just 'happen' without us paying for them.

Joey the lips

One problem off the top of my head....Nappies/sanitary towels/condoms.......

I am sure there is loads more if I really cared. I actually argued this point with the council and they said the charge is for the recycleing service as well as it would have cost more to use landfill

Merch

Demonon wrote: »

My folks are very old fashioned and don't use the recycling bin (green bin) I know it's blue in some areas, but anyway this is a free service regardless. [B]I told them you can put all paper, plastic packaging, cans, etc, into it.
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The only things you can't put in are glass and food, but there are about a million bottle banks within a mile of my house, and waste food can be taken care of by buying once off , a cheap compost bin.

At the moment they are paying like €150/year I think it is, and then around €8/week for the black bin collection. This amounts to over €550/year that I've just saved them!

You're wrong, you can't put all plastic packaging into a green bin, only certain types, check your local authority/private operator to see what they take, otherwise the cost of removing this will cause the charge to go up/be added.

baalthor

Your parents still have to pay the 150 euro fixed charge. Also pay per lift only applies in certain areas.

Where I live you pay 328 eurn per year for both bins. This can be reduced by 60 euro if you opt for a smaller black bin.

biko

I use citybin and pay for weight, not per lift.

NothingMan

I have a magic smelly room in the basement of the building that takes all my rubbish for free :eek:

Joe Cool

Another rubbish thread *sigh*

freyners

we do something similar to the op, 2 euro a go to the recycling centre in athlone and about 4-5 once off collection bags a year to get rid of the stuff that can be recycled, handy

bonerm

I miss the days of backyard bonfires. It was like a mini-halloween when you were a kid.

Merch

Pay per lift, recycleables into the green bin, cut off lids/collars,cleaned and compacted, compost non cooked food/green waste, rest goes into grey bin, nearly on second full bin this year.

Merch

bonerm wrote: »

I miss the days of backyard bonfires. It was like a mini-halloween when you were a kid.

Love the smell of dioxins in the morning, smells like... like vict , Well there was probably less plastics to dispose of, more leaves being burned, least we know better these days

moonpurple

and nappies?

food waste in composter = flies buddy a lot of flies

ScumLord

Demonon wrote: »

The only things you can't put in are glass and food, but there are about a million bottle banks within a mile of my house,

I find that hard to believe and that doubt brings your whole thread into disrepute.

I got the new WERS pay as you go service when I moved there a few weeks ago, no charges other than €9.60 to lift the black bin and €4.60 to lift the blue one. So far that's it I didn't give them any payment details so they haven't taken any other money off me. It's only cost me €9.60 in the last month because I only needed to have the bin lifted once.

Niall Keane

Paying for lift and not weight = let’s try to bring cholera and typhoid back. Typical Irish lazy-ass solution. Ever walk down Grove Park in Rathmines in the summer? Makes India seem plush! Good place for a serial killer to operate, as the smell, it’s so thick maybe taste would be the correct word, of rotten meat from the bins would disguise any dead bodies hiding down there. Brown bins where I am on the Northside are collected every two weeks, so if you “get away” with being a sparrowfart and eating sod all, you might have months of dead animal stewing away in your front yard. A house shared by size zero ladies may end up causing the next plague? :eek:

krudler

I still have a front door fob for my old apartment building, which conveniently has the rubbish area just inside the front door, score!

starbelgrade

Most household waste can be recycled or composted. Some county councils operate free recycling & composting collections or civic amenity centres. I don't have a landfill bin as I compost everything that can't be recycled. The recycling is done by 2 companies - with one, you must have a black bin & pay a yearly charge for that (which kind of defeats the purpose) & the other company collects recycling bags once every two weeks (alternating with landfill). The bags themselves are free for recycling.

More info can be found here; http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/environment/waste-management-and-recycling/domestic_recycling_services

Merch

moonpurple wrote: »

and nappies?

food waste in composter = flies buddy a lot of flies

Well, I don't have any nappies to dispose of, non cooked food waste, ie peelings,skins go in the composter, I dont have swarms of flies in there but last time I turned it there was plenty of worms and loads of other crawling insects, no flies.
just put some shredded paper over it and a few sheets of slightly wet newspaper. I keep putting stuff in and it keeps dissappearing having not taken anything out yet.

All containers that go to the green bin are washed so no smell there.

Meat could be a bit of a problem, I was thinking of getting a wormery specifically for it, but as I dont seem to have much wasted it doesnt seem worth it. I just put it in two bags tied and put it in my black bag.

Maybe some meat was put in your composter? dont put any meat in there, will attract flies and maybe mice or even rats.

JONJO THE MISER

I burn my rubbish every Friday, brings it to the brother in Law who lives out the country and we set fire to it.

JONJO THE MISER

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I burn my rubbish every Friday, brings it to the brother in Law who lives out the country and we set fire to it.

Someone did that a couple of miles down the road two years ago, it took the fire frigade about a month to put out the bog fire!

Indubitable

moonpurple wrote: »

and nappies?

food waste in composter = flies buddy a lot of flies

Don't have kids.

Indubitable

Deleted User wrote: »

Someone did that a couple of miles down the road two years ago, it took the fire frigade about a month to put out the bog fire!

That could be near my brother. Is it in the boyle area?

molloyjazz

i use nature to take care of waste disposal needs... its called the river shannon.

Indubitable

molloyjazz wrote: »

i use nature to take care of waste disposal needs... its called the river shannon.

The liffey seems to be a huge succcess

kingofthe3rdyrs

kingofthe3rdyrs wrote: »

That could be near my brother. Is it in the boyle area?

no, t'other end.

Indubitable

Then this was a different bog. Thank god the turf didn't catch fire.

kingofthe3rdyrs

kingofthe3rdyrs wrote: »

Then this was a different bog. Thank god the turf didn't catch fire.

It did, that was the problem! There was an underground fire. The fire brigade were there for a month pumping water into it, it also burnt a couple of square miles of scrub as well.

Indubitable

Wow it must have been burning for ages. The one beside my brother only burnt the bushes and grass etc top of the turf so it is ready for cutting

General Zod

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I burn my rubbish every Friday, brings it to the brother in Law who lives out the country and we set fire to it.

is it because you're a miser? oh the hillarity. please keep up this pretense, it entertains every thread you try it out in.

Sonnenblumen

Deleted User wrote: »

The bogs here are littered with black bags! :mad:

Turf cutter raincoats will soon be a thing of the past.

Sonnenblumen

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I burn my rubbish every Friday, brings it to the brother in Law who lives out the country and we set fire to it.

Any chance next time you could burn some Greens as well?

elnino35

the apartment block behind where I live does the job...serves 'em right for putting the f**ckin thing so close to our private back gardens anyway;)