Illegal rubbish dumping

wonderwoman2

I live in an apartment complex in north Dublin, we have a bin shed for our rubbish that all residents have access to as it is included in our yearly fee.

There is a code on the door which is changed every year but there are definitely non residents using this.

One of the neighbors mentioned this months ago to the management company but it still goes on every so often.

Has anyone similar stories, maybe there is something else I can do?

The_Conductor

We had a similar issue.
You can go down the road of changing codes etc to your hearts content, there will always be fools who are happy to hand out the security code to others though. Our Management Company even got a EUR1000 fine from the council because of illegal dumping of dangerous materials in green bins- it actually got to that stage.

In the end we decided that it simply wasn't feasible for the Management Company to provide bin services as it had been doing. The actions of a few people ruined it for everyone else.

We invested in gravity locks for the bins, and returned the commercial bins to the council, leaving just the various domestic bins for each unit. Each domestic unit now has their 3 bins, along with 3 locks on their 3 bins for which they are responsible. They have to bring their bin to the designated collection point by 7AM on collection day- if they want it emptied, and they have to pay to have their bin emptied.

There was outcry from people renting in the complex when this happened- however curiously, the owner occupiers were in full support of it (and the landlords only seemed to care about a reduction in the management charge).

Since then- our biggest problem has been the sheer number of different bins- Black bin, brown bin, green bin- and for our commercial units (we've a few) also a blue bin. We've actually ended up with 40 brown bins under a weather canopy- because we simply don't have anywhere to put them.......

You can change the code to your bin shed- to your hearts content- its not going to work. I bet you even have landlords transporting their domestic waste and dumping it with the other waste in the shed, just because they view it as 'free'.........

In an ideal world it should be possible to run a refuse collection service like this- but its not an ideal world. Aside from any other considerations- people's disposable income is severely curtailed- many people may not be able to afford the EUR10.50/EUR12 per bin per week. In a situation like this- you either accept that you're going to have some people abusing the situation- and hope the abuse is kept to a minimum- or you do away with the system, make people responsible for their own waste, and get buy-in from the owners with a reciprochal cut in the Management Charge.......

As a pure aside- once our Management Company stopped organising a communal waste system- and distributed individual bins with locks to all units- the weekly waste being generated fell over 60%.