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Dublin City Council - Bin Collection Privatised/Greyhound Megathread

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    #1052
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,305 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Guy just called today to inform us, works out expensive for someone only throwing rubbish out once every 3 weeks or so


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    #1053
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    Got that leaflet in today as well. Awful deal. Especially complicated because this is a house converted into several flats, so would one bin even be enough? Who's going to have to pay the charge, one of the tenants, or the landlord?

    And what do I do with the bags I've already paid for? That's the guts of €20 down the drain for me. "bin the bags" they say, the bags you've already taken my money for?


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    #1054
    Simon2015
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Simon2015


    david75 wrote: »
    The scam continues...
    http://www.thejournal.ie/bin-charges-pay-by-weight-july-2537294-Jan2016/?utm_source=facebook_short

    This will just lead to more fly tipping.

    Bin charges is a false economy. It most cost the council more to pick up all the illegally dumped rubbish than it would to collect people's bins for free.


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    #1055
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,138 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Anyone any experience of ecoway?
    They left us in a leaflet this morning and sound ideal for the occasional rubbish bag person.

    http://ecoway.ie/services/bag-intro/domestic-bag/

    €2.50 a bag for rubbish, €1 for recycling


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    #1056
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    No collection by Greyhound this week in my neighbourhood (off Cork Street). So the costly bag will be recycled for next week and the old rubbish goes around the corner.

    That is a useful thing to remember with Greyhound and other bag selling wasters - always put the rubbish in to smaller bags (ie. the black binliners sold in pound shops) so when and if they fail to show you can re-use the branded bag and still flytip in a tidy manner.


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    #1057
    Patser
    Registered Users Posts: 7,944 ✭✭✭Patser


    FloatingVoter wrote: »
    No collection by Greyhound this week in my neighbourhood (off Cork Street). So the costly bag will be recycled for next week and the old rubbish goes around the corner.

    That is a useful thing to remember with Greyhound and other bag selling wasters - always put the rubbish in to smaller bags (ie. the black binliners sold in pound shops) so when and if they fail to show you can re-use the branded bag and still flytip in a tidy manner.

    Good man yourself. It's always handy to know that dumping your rubbish on someone else's street is a more cost effective option than just keeping it til next week in its heavy duty bags. I mean it's not like there'll be a need for a new bag anyway for the new rubbish building up over that week, especially if it had been collected. Far more sociably conscious to simple dump big, cheap black bags just around the corner from your own street.

    Have you rang/contacted Greyhound to complain? Checked if there was a breakdown and a replacement collection arranged? Or just dumped first, and made an online whine instead.


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    #1058
    cruhoortwunk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭cruhoortwunk


    cruhoortwunk wrote: »
    I live on a narrow street that only has bin bags at the moment. We had some sales chap from greyhound around the other day that said the bags are no longer allowed by Dublin CC, so wheelie bins are compulsory.
    Anyone know if there is any truth in this (wouldn't be surprised if Greyhound were lying)

    Turns out they were lying as I suspected. I heard from Abbey Waste and they said it's only greyhound that are moving to wheelie bins. All other providers will continue to do bags.
    They came around with forms making people think they had no choice but to go to Greyhound wheelie bins, regardless of current company
    Scumbags of the highest order, I'm sure some old people will fall for that


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    #1059
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Patser wrote: »
    Good man yourself. It's always handy to know that dumping your rubbish on someone else's street is a more cost effective option than just keeping it til next week in its heavy duty bags. I mean it's not like there'll be a need for a new bag anyway for the new rubbish building up over that week, especially if it had been collected. Far more sociably conscious to simple dump big, cheap black bags just around the corner from your own street.

    Have you rang/contacted Greyhound to complain? Checked if there was a breakdown and a replacement collection arranged? Or just dumped first, and made an online whine instead.

    Nothing collected on the street around the corner either. It makes it easier for DCC to collect the waste on Monday morning. I don't spend money making phone calls to failures. As for a social conscience, I give as much of a toss about society as it gives about me.
    As for "heavy duty bags", how is life on Mars ?


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    #1060
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    cruhoortwunk wrote: »
    Turns out they were lying as I suspected. I heard from Abbey Waste and they said it's only greyhound that are moving to wheelie bins. All other providers will continue to do bags.
    They came around with forms making people think they had no choice but to go to Greyhound wheelie bins, regardless of current company
    Scumbags of the highest order, I'm sure some old people will fall for that

    I had a similar experience, exchanging correspondence with both companies. Greyhound will link a Statutory Instrument they claim will make bins compulsory in July of this year. Abbey disagree. For now anyway I have just switched to AW bags, will see what happens in a few months.


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    #1061
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,305 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    cruhoortwunk wrote: »
    Turns out they were lying as I suspected. I heard from Abbey Waste and they said it's only greyhound that are moving to wheelie bins. All other providers will continue to do bags.
    They came around with forms making people think they had no choice but to go to Greyhound wheelie bins, regardless of current company
    Scumbags of the highest order, I'm sure some old people will fall for that

    Ditto - was as I suspected as well when phoning around a few companies.
    Moved/moving to Abbey, cheaper, especially the recycling bags.

    Greyhound should be reported for their hard sales tactics at the door and misselling


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    #1062
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    The Statutory Instrument I mentioned above is now getting media coverage.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/public-paying-recycling-first-time-bins-2577692-Feb2016/

    I wonder how Abbey Waste and others will respond to this. I live in an area in the centre of Dublin, terraced houses, but there are gardens, so we probably won't get the exemption. But I don't want to go form paying €3 a month(one bag out a month) to €15 for two lifts of bins I won't fill or a couple of months.


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    #1063
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,305 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    MrMorooka wrote: »
    The Statutory Instrument I mentioned above is now getting media coverage.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/public-paying-recycling-first-time-bins-2577692-Feb2016/

    I wonder how Abbey Waste and others will respond to this. I live in an area in the centre of Dublin, terraced houses, but there are gardens, so we probably won't get the exemption. But I don't want to go form paying €3 a month(one bag out a month) to €15 for two lifts of bins I won't fill or a couple of months.
    Also live in a terrace, with a small front garden. So it's either leave them out front where they will magically fill themselves or drag them through the house mud, snow and everything
    I don't think Abbey have anything to collect bins in our area, they only trucks I've seen are ones for just throwing bags into.


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    #1064
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,866 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    A Greyhound guy turned up at my door today to give me the bad news.

    I only put a bag out maybe every four or five weeks (if even that) so he offered a 49.50 per year charge with a charge per lift (can't remember but it wasn't huge) for black bin and will also cover recycling and a brown bin if I want it. Sounds alright tbh.

    Has anyone come across anything better?

    I really, really don't want three bins clogging up my postage stamp of a front garden, but looks like the writing is on the wall :mad:


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    #1065
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,138 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    A Greyhound guy turned up at my door today to give me the bad news.

    I only put a bag out maybe every four or five weeks (if even that) so he offered a 49.50 per year charge with a charge per lift (can't remember but it wasn't huge) for black bin and will also cover recycling and a brown bin if I want it. Sounds alright tbh.

    Has anyone come across anything better?

    I really, really don't want three bins clogging up my postage stamp of a front garden, but looks like the writing is on the wall :mad:

    We are going with ecoway.ie €2.50 a bag and we already bring our recycling to the city council centres for free.


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    #1066
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    A Greyhound guy turned up at my door today to give me the bad news.

    I only put a bag out maybe every four or five weeks (if even that) so he offered a 49.50 per year charge with a charge per lift (can't remember but it wasn't huge) for black bin and will also cover recycling and a brown bin if I want it. Sounds alright tbh.

    Has anyone come across anything better?

    I really, really don't want three bins clogging up my postage stamp of a front garden, but looks like the writing is on the wall :mad:

    I just switched to buying Abbey Waste bags. Easiest solution.

    Judging by the number of AW bags on the road last Tuesday and the lack of any new Greyhound bins, looks like it's what most people on my street did.


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    #1067
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,866 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    But the greyhound fella was insistent that come July there will be no bag collection, by anyone, as a result of the legislation.

    Was he spoofing?

    I'd pay extra not too have wheelie bins in my front garden!

    Don't particularly want to tie myself to one of the still-collecting -bags companies, only to find that have to give it up in summer anyway. ...


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    #1068
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    You'e not tying yourself to anything- there's no contract, just go to the local shop and buy the bags as needed, leave them out on collection day. Then you can wait it out and see what happens in July. You're not losing anything by waiting, as far as I can see.


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    #1069
    Kraft.l
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭Kraft.l


    Hi, I'm living in Stoneybatter at the moment and was just wondering will the next new weighted bin charges cost more than the Greyhound bin bags. A month which are €10.95? Thanks


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    #1070
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Note: previous post moved to Bin megathread for better coverage.


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    #1071
    budhabob
    Registered Users Posts: 4,823 ✭✭✭budhabob


    Hi All,

    I paid an for annual collect last October with Greyhound. Turns out I will get refunded (into my Greyhound account) the remainder of the year from July. Has anyone done some research into the best offers out there?

    Living in Glasnevin.

    Thanks in advance,

    Rob


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