blue boxes chipped, old or new news?
 

As you all know I haven't been around for a while and so have not seen all the threads... Anyway, the whole chipping of bins has really pee'd me off and so I went out to mine and low and behold it is chipped, as reported by all newspapers and media..
But did you know that your blue recycling box is also chipped? I checked mine today and found a small device about the size of a 2p with the label "World Tag - Logistic and Industrial Transponder" - so this means I have had 1 device in my garden that is bugged and another unit in my HOUSE that is also bugged.. This beggars belief that they did not inform us of the spying.
Anyway, I will be removing these devices and destroying them, so please, HBC come and get me and I will see you in court!

By the way, if this is the first uncovering of the blue boxes being bugged, if you are a newspaper, please at least give us some credit for the story - just printing the web address is enough, thanks.

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Really? omg where abouts Roy on the box cos im going to inspect mine i didnt think they would actually do that:eek:

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Well just checked ours and its not chipped,
so why is some chipped and others not is it just the new ones that are ?
If you get a new one check and let us know.

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:D Don't bother taking it out, have a look for a single pensioner and swop bins and boxes, that will put the cat among the pigeons. :D

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i say we shoudl collect all these chips and re locate them in the councils brown box's so that we can manage how much crap they output ;)

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wouldnt it be nice if we could arrange a collection point for these chips so that everybody could hand them in , then dump them on teh counter of the town hall

surely you cant be done for returning unwanted items and who teh hell gave te council power to put bugs in our homes iem pretty sure this breaks soem law

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Well had a brief look tho it was hard to see it outside in the dark:D

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surely you can take them off the bins,if they havnt informed you that they have been put on there you can take them off and say you thought that kids have put them on there,or tell them you dont want them on your property(i mean the garden/yard

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Heres a link to photos of my blue box, http://web.mac.com/accyroy/iWeb/Photos/Photos.html

http://web.mac.com/accyroy/iWeb/Phot...s/DSCN0680.jpg

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what is this ?

accy webs version of teh obserbvers beautifull baby competition but with blue box's instead ?

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Ahhhh yeh kids brought me one of those & harranged by others from same school tho i didnt know or wasn't clear that there would be a bugging device on it:eek: where are these devices stuck on the box?

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They ?? how many are there:eek: LOL

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why are they on there,whats the point in giving them to only a few people,

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Right after uurrgghh inspection i have a circle hole thing where one should be .....but i dont have one wahheeyy well if i did i dont now after daughter threw a hissy fit in the garden & wizzed my box in a bad mood yesterday :eek: so she may of already done me a favour if there was one there LOL

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I thought everybody had them. :idunno:

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Nice Pic Roy was helpful to know what one looked like:D im so amazed that it was not made public knowledge till now here

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you will have to stick something in the holes so they cant bug you too,some barb wire will do

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Mel are you certain you still have the same box you where issued with because I came home from work last week and all the bins that where still out where built into a tower in the road.

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Mmmm now thats a good point how about a nice dead slug theres one already on me box as barb wire is a sore point for me ask a few accywebbers that was on a meet one time when such incident occured hehehehehehe:D

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Roflmao!!!!!!!!!!!! blue box tower hasn't happened here yet novel idea heheheheheehe:D Yeh i still got my original box with a few sort codes over it & sticker with my address on:D

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So will they know that mine is full of the kids toys.






























Oops they will now

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You firing blanks again Neil pic not loaded up:confused::D lol

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glue em to P.B's car :D

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There is not meant to be a picture.

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Ah right you just wanted a big gap then mmm:rolleyes:

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My wheelie bin appears to be chipped and it’s under what appears to be a plastic hexagon headed screw located at the front of the bin under the rim. My blue box isn’t I don’t think I’ll see better tomorrow.

Here’s a couple of links on the subject.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/5355984.stm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...331396,00.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/TGD/pic...,334427,00.jpg

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well ill certainly be inspecting mine tomorrow .will be interesting to know if blackpool does it too.
Im really gobsmacked at the thought that they are allowed to do this without your knowledge ..it disgusts me that a local council can invade peoples privacy in such a way what next cameras lookin through kitchen windows to make you recycle properly ?

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Gee i didnt check my big bins :eek: i think everyone will be bin bug inspecting tommorow too:rolleyes:

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Big bin looks bug free but the blue box has something like a small round magnet but no writing on it, check again in daylight.

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Seeing as we are all posting rubbish pictures here are a couple of my bins. They are both chipped. You can just see the cardboard mountain on the left of the picture.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...g?d=1159221989

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So you didnt get the blue box & bag but labelled big bins Neil??

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Those are as delivered on a 'test scheme' there are about 3 houses around here with them. They are the small wheelie bins. I have a blue bag somewhere I think. We have a blue box as well, I bet its the cleanest in Hyndburn ;)

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Ok so where are these little bastards hidden?? One of my neighbours says it is in a little hole................hmmmmmm well yeah which one??

There seems to be three holes.......two at either side of the bin and a little slit where you could fit a coin in?? is this the slit ?? in the middle?? cos if I see this BUG thingy I promise I will go and nail it to the town hall door............signed LOVE SLINKY xxxxxxx

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Who actualy owns the bins? Are they allowed to do this?

We should take them off and dump them all somewhere for them to find, will be like a treasurehunt.

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They hav`nt chipped the sacks as well have they?:rofl38:

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If you have followed the rules regarding putting the bin out then I would argue that it is their fault the bin has gone missing and they should replace it.

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Well mine gets soo full i dont even use them on the day/night they collect i fill up bags with all the recycling and hang them on the fence and put the blue boxes out next to the bags so that they know to stop here! so to them it looks asthough i dont recycle but in fact i doo!!

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It is supposed to be illegal to remove the tags....this is because the bin belongs to the council. Some councils have threatened to fine people who remove the tags. You could inactivate the tag by putting a strong magnetic force on / near it.

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well ive just inspected mine and it seems all three are chipped so blackpool are doing the same as hbc

still think its a disgrace though

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Can I suggest taking all 3 chips out and replace them into the wrong bins, that will really confuse them :D
It will look like you do a hell of a lot of recycling and have very little rubbish for the general tip :D

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Surely they would know if they are being successeful? They look out the office window do we have a load of cans/bottles/paper to be picked up this week?

If the answer is yes then they are doing the job.
If the answer is no, then situation normal and they aren't showing up any of the other council departments by being efficient.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

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That is what I said. All the tag does is id whose bin it is. The wagon does all the weighing not the tag.

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We NEVER put out our blue box and blue sack. That doesn't mean that we don't recycle. It just means that we can't be bothered waiting for HBC to empty once a fortnight. We take them to the tip ourselves. Will they tell us off for not putting our blue box/bag out? I'd like to see them try!

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:engsmil: These chips in your wheely bin are there to monitor weight, when the council decide you will have to pay for what you do not recycle, it is in force in southern bouroughs now.

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i dont have a chip on my wheelie bin, but gonna check me blue box, and if there is one its coming off!! cheeky sods my blue box only gets emptied once a month cuz i dont have many glass objects to put in, its mostly plastic!!

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Woke up this morning to find my blue bin in the hall , turned upside down with a note on left by Alec, saying in large capital letters with an arrow "BUG" .... Needless to say i was half a sleep and was frantically looking around for something with a hundread legs and that could run at 100mph.:o