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New bin charges: what do they mean and ho much will they be? (Irish Times)

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  1. DavidT

    Garbage collection in Ireland:

    Milk the honest householder.
    Offshore the profits.
    Have three different monster trucks hurtling round the same country lane late at night.
    Fly tipping.
    Incineration.
    Almost zero incentives to reduce.
    Shirking of responsibility by producers.

    It’s time to feck REPAK in the bin and start again with a grown-up attitude to packaging and waste.

  2. Rob

    I used to pay bin charges to the local authorities in Dublin when it was under their control I remember ringing up to pay the fee and the guy in the council told me a few times I was one of the few payers in the area Because of this the council put the contract out to one of the private operators I would much rather that my money would go to the local council than to a private tax exile company but unfortunately that’s what we’ve ended up with because so few people paid the council at the time the council fee was about 90 euro a year which is less than what the private operators charge now

  3. Fact Checker

    Here’s how it should work.

    You pay LPT to your local authority, which includes refuse collection services.

    Local authorities put out a competitive tender for collection on certain routes, goes to lowest bidder, subject to conditions for a period of time.

    Refuse companies collect and weigh your bins. People who produce less waste get a rebate at the end of the year once they apply online.

    This would do away with the need for the inconvenience of multiple collectors going down the same street, irritating involvement with bin refuse companies’ customer service departments, and it would also lead to much less illegal dumping.

    1. David

      Reduce your bin weight and get rebates: fly tipping.

      Waste is primarily the responsibility of the producer, not the consumer.

  4. Iwerzon

    I spend Euro 17 a month with Greyhound for one wheelie bin to be emptied every two weeks in D7. Will this now change?

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