I mentioned this waaaaaaaay back in march, and got ignored.
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Originally Posted by Madhatter
I've had a great idea, the best since i invented the unbirthday for the 364 days that it isn't your birthday.
It will revolutionise the way we throw our rubbish away.
All the wheelie bins, green bins and red boxes get a computer chip attached to them. the dustbin wagon and recycling lorry have scales attached to weigh each bin or box as its emptied. each chip is assigned to your address, and all the data gets sent to a central computer so that the council knows how much rubbish, how much green waste how many cans bottles etc you've recycled.
each area of the town gets split up into different teams. each quarter the team with the best recycling percentage is given a prize.
The chips cost about a quid each and the weighing machines about 1800 quid.
Now is that a mad idea or what
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Originally Posted by Madhatter
Well done busman, it's not actually my idea and is already very much reality in several areas of britain. And yes they have every intention of charging you for the amount of rubbish you throw away. They're going to have to, they're running out of placesto put it. One answer is to build incinerators around the country, but they're not very efficient not very nice, they stink, and they push out pollutants
They don't have enough places to deal with all the recycling that they want us to produce either. It's all very well recycling, but if it then ends up in an incinerator, whats the point
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G jones even stated they were already chiped
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Originally Posted by g jones
When the scheme was set up they (LAB) opted for chipped bins and boxes. The difficulty is weighing them, though this idea was a future consideration when purchasing the chipped ones.
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All that was before this government exposure, so really I exposed it all.
I wouldn't go pulling those chips out. They can charge you to replace it, and if you refuse you could get a fine. At the end of the day it's not your bin, it's there's and you have a responsibility while its in your care.
Our councils moto is govern yet obey. ye right.