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Originally Posted by Ianto.W.
If the bin police root through your bin and find something that should have been recycled, they can do you for it, that's why the chips are there to weigh or identify what proportion of your rubbish you are recycling, and charge you accordingly by the kilo. The only reason they are not doing it here at present is certain Southern Counties are doing a pilot scheme, and the rest are awaiting the results.
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Just plain rubbish. (I am sorry Ian but you do this a lot)
1. I voted when the recycling scheme was put in (with chips in bins). The main reason was cost. The price of bins with chips was barely more than that of without. How can you start a scheme and decide against any form of monitoring on how well your doing. Plain stupid. In plain English, the chips allowed us to see how crap or good we were doing. Something any good business would do.
Furthermore it has been discussed by Labour Councillors that the chips may afford a discount to residents who do recycle. That's what we looked at. That's completely different than charging per weight.
That's all in the past now of course because...
2. Hyndburn is to get a well publicised recycling plant that will recycle 90%+. I don't even think all the remainder goes to landfill either. The only question is how much cheaper per tonne is the recycling plant compared to the cost per tonne in future landfill charges and will we go back to weekly collections with it not being pre-seperated anymore?