Pay as you throw
26 April 2007
This could happen if your local council takes it on — you pay for how much rubbish you put in the bin. This is meant to encourage recycling.
Why I think it won’t work where we live:
The bastards are so fucking cheap I predict they will stay up late to dump rubbish in someone else’s bin. This has already happened to us when a skip was hired and Neil had been throwing stuff away all day, went inside for ten minutes and came back outside to find someone had sneaked over and dumped a carpet in it. As Neil says, if they had just come over and asked he would have said no problem, but to wait till he’d finished.
If the solution is to put a lock on the bin, that’s crazy, eh.
(I am very hopeful of getting a Green Cone composter anyway, so as little as possible is wasted.)
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Or you can do like the people in my neighborhood, and simply leave your large items, mattresses, toxic household waste, etc. in front of an empty building or business that’s closed for the night. Eventually the street cleaning people will come and take it, and you don’t have to make a trip to the city dump. It’s cheaper AND more convenient!
Then there’s the people in my building who do this in the garage, except no one ever removes the stuff. If you can pretend it’s not yours, it’s no longer your responsibility. What a great solution.
Comment by Jeff Trull — 26 April 2007 @ 7:43 pm
Heh. It's called fly tipping here.
Comment by Andrea — 27 April 2007 @ 10:47 am