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Re: wheelie bins
OK here is your up-to-date on-the-spot report from your local refuse collection observer.
The bin men themselves do not carry any bar code reading devices. The blue boxes have a small disc under the rim (about the size of a 10p) and when the box is tipped into the wagon the wagon itself "reads" information encoded into that disc. So if your box got switched withe someone else's the "muck truck" would think it was emptying their box when it was actually emptying yours (or at least the one it picks up from outside your house)
I am assured that the bin men are very careful to put the boxes back where they get them from.
This is how the schools pledges are recorded.
I haven't ventured out the back yet to investigate the rim of my wheelie bin but I'm presuming there is something similar on there. Isn't modern technology wonderful?
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