Forget #irishwater your brown bin will now add €100 to your yearly bin charges as you need to pay for that from next year.
— Jennifer Kavanagh (@quiatimet) November 19, 2014
@JFTAXI the father just got the refuse bill for next year and was told that by oxyigen in waterford
— Jennifer Kavanagh (@quiatimet) November 19, 2014
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One company in Waterford is not the same as “you need to pay for it”.
That’s only two euros a week to save the planet.
Jesus we’ll have to pay for our own food next…
Moaners hit the road please you’ve had the stage for too long. You and I know that middle to high earners will continue to pick to the majority of the tab, stop pretending you are hard done by.
“You and I know that middle to high earners will continue to pick to the majority of the tab”
> High earners picking up the tab?
No seriously, I like a guy who keeps abreast of current events. It shows you have class and education.
The lower the water charge the higher the need for funds from general taxation pool, which is largely contributed to by middle and high earners.
progressive taxing! hurray!
are you some sort of regressive neanderthal? NO I THOUGHT NOT! Bully for you champ!
I’ve paid for my brown bin for the last 2-3 years.
We pay for the brown down in Dublin. Think its around 4.50 a drop.
Luckily I dump everything in the green bin.
Yep, 4.50
And the brown bin is optional anyway iirc
A sole, random Twitter commenter is a reliable source now?
Yeah, have been paying for the brown bin for years in Dublin.
Remember when we had a reliable cheap service from DCC? Those were the days.
**Private Waterford company raises price on service**
People: “Bloody guv’mint”, “Sack Enda”, “Bwankers” – Ignorance continues ad nauseam…
No need for brown bin just get compost bin for back garden. Save fortune.
We don’t have them, where I come from. Are you supposed to crap in them, when the water system collapses due to the belligerent minority?
That’s some impressive punctuation
There’s a lot of things you can put in your brown bin that you can’t put in your compost.
Classic Bodger post.
Is the brown bin contents, like the green bin contents not an asset? Do they make money from composting.
Its nowhere near as valuable as the green bin contents can be – the composting takes time and possibly heat depending on how they do it.
I’ve paid by weight for years (in bands, always been in the lowest band) with the compost bins weight being calculated at a % of its weight and the black bin at its full weight, so they’re at least acknowledging that its cheaper than landfill costs.
Indeed – there is always the argument that we should be paid for collecting and presenting our waste to companies so that they can then make money from it.
+1
There are options with organic waste (compost, competitors in collection etc). Also, its a capital cost in water vs. an operational cost in waste. Lump sum v monthly stipend. The latter being more achievable and less noticeable.