Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

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.

Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

i don't think they are rubbish pictures neil,think they are quite good.;)

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Its a bit sad Neil and Romps have seperate beds though...and where's Weed in the middle?:D

Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

I have:
White sack- paper.
Blue sack- plastic.
Green sack- textiles.
Blue box- glass and tins.
Black wheelie bin- dead bodies...I mean all the rest of the rubbish, except for cardboard, which has to be bundled up next to the bin.

Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

You have a green sack???????????????

I'm jealous!!!


Didn't you get the new instructions to put your tins in the bags with the plastic bottles? It's madness, people in different areas of the same borough are doing different things! :D

Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

After much pleading with the recycling depaertment at HBC, my recycling kit was delivered about six weeks ago. The instructions of what goes in which receptacle are what I posted earlier.

It does seem a bit mad that differing parts of the borough have different instructions.

The green recycling sack was posted through my door in April, and which I strated a thread about.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...green+textiles

Re: blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

So the course of antibiotics didn't work Rindy ;)

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Half worked. The other one has a healthy tan.;)

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The tags do one thing only. They identify the bin. Thats it. No secret camera. They do not count how many times you open the lid. They don't weigh the bin. They don't detect the wrong item in the bin. They just have an id number that can be read by the bin wagon or a hand held unit.

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Reply had best be a PM :eek:

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Well to coin a phrase, that's just rubbish information, for the Council, not from you.

Surely the refuse collectors can see if a house never uses the recycling kit, or if a person's wheelie bin isn't put out for more than a year, then the person is probably dead...with a mountain of Council Tax demands behind the door...waiting to be recycled!

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If you have children of school age you can pledge to recycle. You can also get grandparents to do so as well. I assume that they use the tags to identify who is actually recycling and who has just signed the form but not recycled at all.

The school's get points per pledges and are awarded prizes like computers if the people who have pledged actually do so.

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Are you sure Neil? Read This

It may not be our Council yet but, perhaps coming soon to a back alley near you?