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do they check garbage bags?

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  • 19-04-2014 9:41pm
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    Classic Rock Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭


    Consider the following hypothetical scenario:

    >have 100s of plastic bottles scattered around house
    >only have house waste bin
    >put bottles in black bags

    Do they check whats inside the bags? And if they do, do they put the garbage back?


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    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,984 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Why would you not just squash them, put them in a sack and bring them to a recycling centre? Or put them in the green bin?


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    Classic Rock Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Classic Rock Man


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Why would you not just squash them, put them in a sack and bring them to a recycling centre? Or put them in the green bin?



    i will, but just consider the following hypothetical scenario


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    No Pants
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    Why would they check the contents of the bags? If you want to pay to have rubbish removed instead of recycling them for free, that's your choice.


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    Classic Rock Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Classic Rock Man


    No Pants wrote: »
    Why would they check the contents of the bags? If you want to pay to have rubbish removed instead of recycling them for free, that's your choice.

    So you're saying the bags dont get checked until it reaches the garbage dump?


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    Sarah Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 481 ✭✭Sarah Bear


    Classic Rock Man wrote: »
    So you're saying the bags dont get checked until it reaches the garbage dump?

    Are you trying to dispose of a dead body?


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    Classic Rock Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Classic Rock Man


    Sarah Bear wrote: »
    Are you trying to dispose of a dead body?

    no i am trying to find the solution to the hypothetical scenario


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    Sarah Bear
    Registered Users Posts: 481 ✭✭Sarah Bear


    Classic Rock Man wrote: »
    no i am trying to find the solution to the hypothetical scenario

    I have often put recyclables into the normal bin.
    No one has ever said anything.
    If you watch the bin men loading the bins onto the lorry, you will see they do not root through the rubbish to remove reclylables.


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    Classic Rock Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Classic Rock Man


    Sarah Bear wrote: »
    I have often put recyclables into the normal bin.
    No one has ever said anything.
    If you watch the bin men loading the bins onto the lorry, you will see they do not root through the rubbish to remove reclylables.

    thanks for the input


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Could you not put the 100s of plastic bottles in your car and carry them to the nearest recycling centre, this will be the kindest way to the environment in processing them.


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    jfmeto
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    No Pants wrote: »
    Why would they check the contents of the bags? If you want to pay to have rubbish removed instead of recycling them for free, that's your choice.


    Who recycles them for free?


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    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Apparently most black bin waste is sorted in waste centres aroun Dublin to see what is recyclable. This into reduce the amount going landfill and get the valuable waste eg cans, plastics


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    Scaglietti
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Scaglietti


    Do they feck


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    Millem
    Registered Users Posts: 7,729 ✭✭✭Millem


    hfallada wrote: »
    Apparently most black bin waste is sorted in waste centres aroun Dublin to see what is recyclable. This into reduce the amount going landfill and get the valuable waste eg cans, plastics

    I saw on programme on it before but I thought I was just the green bins that get sorted. Of course you can put bottles in your black bin just be careful that you are not paying per weight! I think my mum still has to put them in her black bin as her company don't allow plastics in the green bin, or at least it was the case a few years ago


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    lollsangel
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    jfmeto wrote: »
    Who recycles them for free?

    I do, provided I have it sorted into plastic, paper etc. Mixed bags cost 1.50


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    _Kaiser_
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    I live in an apartment which has a shared huge wheeled green bin so most of what I need to get rid of goes in there, meaning I only have to put the black bin out now and again.

    Usually works ok except when the bin men haven't been told the code for the gate and so don't empty the green bin - at which point anything I need rid of goes into the black one till next week.

    I wouldn't have the time, interest or energy for sorting it any further than that :)


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    Snake
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    Wouldn't imagine so, they're on a tight schedule and they wouldn't have time to sort through every bin they empty... And even if they had the time would you be arsed?


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    Get Real
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    they wouldn't check for recyclables in a black bin as it is far worse to do it the other way round.

    Black bin-for landfill, ok a few recyclables and up in landfill (not so long ago that this was mostly the case anyway)

    however, if you put black bin material in the green bin continuously, after a while, yes they may search/ narrow it down to the area, then street, then person.

    The sheer cost of not just sorting recyclables, but then to try to remove things that aren't recyclable would be a massive pain for these companies.

    Not to mention time and rescources spent, damage/ contamination to machinery. And the dumping of recyclable waste that cannot now be recycled as its been contaminated.

    But plastic in the black bin-not that its no biggie environmentally these days- still wouldn't be as big a concern.


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    Steve
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    They check for non-recyclables in the green bin the odd time, not the other way around.
    Most green bin trucks carry large bags and they spot-check by emptying random green bins into these for later analysis.


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    No Pants
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    jfmeto wrote: »
    Who recycles them for free?
    Okay, that was a poor choice of words. Rather the black bin is more expensive as, for me at least, it has the yearly standing charge plus €8.45 per lift or whatever it is. As you can see, I don't leave the black bin out very often.


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