I'm happily not tagged.
What suprises me is what they are going to do with the information they get from the chips?
It took Hyndburn Borough Council two years of phone calls to eventually get round to giving me the requested recycling box/sacks, and if you've ever tried phoning the council, and been held in a queue for what seems like forever, you may come to the conclusion that they may be wiser to employ people to actually answer the phones.
Are they going to employ a person, or team of people, to analyse the information gathered?
Not being a techie, what useful information could these chips possibly give?
They could probably say how often the wheelie bin/boxes are moved, or how much they weigh, but they wont be able to tell if you've mixed up your glass with your plastics, or the fact that your neighbour has over filled your bin with rubbish after you left it out for collection.