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Zero respect for our environment?

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  • #62
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,650 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Samaris wrote: »
    I'm not sure I'd accept mental health issues as an excuse for fly-tipping, tbh.

    Hoarding yes ... Fly-tipping no. The only question is what to charge them with, how much to fine them \ how long to put them away for.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #63
    moonlighting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭moonlighting




  • #64
    jackofalltrades
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭jackofalltrades


    Yeah we don't seem to be the strong sense of civic pride that you get in other countries.
    Sure you do get the Tidy Towns initiative and a lot of people want to see their area clean and tidy, but a good amount of people just don't give a f*ck.
    They think it's up to the government or some of body to clean up after them.
    I guess it must be a hangover from British rule.

    That said I think the rules around waste collection are changing too fast.
    When I was a young lad collection was free, you could leave out loads of bags for the binmen.
    Anything they wouldn't take you could bring to the dump and throw it into the rubbish abyss.
    Nowadays charges are going up very fast and rules are constantly changing.

    Things like WEEE are good and should be brought in for furniture, mattresses, tyres and small hazardous waste.
    It's a joke that I'd have to pay between €15-30 to dispose of one old tin of paint.
    They should also bring increase property tax by about €80-100 and then give that money back as a voucher, that people can use for a waste collection provider.
    Ensuring that everyone is paying for a minimum level of waste collection service.


  • #65
    pheasant tail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 934 ✭✭✭pheasant tail


    I find it quite disturbing if someone says that they couldn't care less about the environment


  • #66
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,675 ✭✭✭policarp


    In my mind the worst thing that was done in recent years was the removal of rates. They were paid to the local authority.
    They were used for bin collections, street cleaning, public lighting, parks and gardens, etc.
    The bin men would take most stuff, sometimes with a tip.
    No fly tipping in them days.


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  • #67
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    policarp wrote: »
    In my mind the worst thing that was done in recent years was the removal of rates. They were paid to the local authority.
    They were used for bin collections, street cleaning, public lighting, parks and gardens, etc.
    The bin men would take most stuff, sometimes with a tip.
    No fly tipping in them days.

    Ah there was, any lovely, scenic area, there'd be at least one torn black bin sack somewhere with household waste spilling out of it. Maybe it's gotten worse and there's certainly gombeen private rubbish collecting firms that dump it anywhere which is new, but the general issue of fly-tipping and littering isn't new here.


  • #68
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    policarp wrote: »
    In my mind the worst thing that was done in recent years was the removal of rates. They were paid to the local authority.
    They were used for bin collections, street cleaning, public lighting, parks and gardens, etc.
    The bin men would take most stuff, sometimes with a tip.
    No fly tipping in them days.

    I agree with you about rates. Here in France, Macron wants to make himself popular by removing residential tax from large numbers of people. I actually disagree. I know it's a lot of money to pay but I can see from my front door where the money goes. The bin men come every day except Sunday, and recycling is collected once a week. We definitely won't have that level of collection of funds go down - or it'll be privatised and it'll get like Ireland.


  • #69
    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    Its gonna be another year of not paying for bin charges in the Phantom household due to the disgraceful insurance increases, At least i'll be insured as I prowl around with a boot full of rubbish.


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