My bin is bugged

Zip · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:34

DRZ said:
Peel off the blinkers for a second. If everyone in your community donated every single bit of packaging to their local school, what would be the outcome?

Aside from having the kids wade through piles of packaging to play football at dinnertime, it would all eventually end up in the same place it was originally going to anyway - landfill (or burning).

At least you wont be paying the taxes for it

I didnt mean every one. You just have to look for things that the cardboard and containers can be good for

Use them for different things other then throwing them all out

red11 · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:11

Not so hidden anymore considering anyone who has now read that will know where to find the bug on their bin. lol

Steve09 · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:13

My dad says if he finds a bug on our bin, he will smash the thing off lmao

I hope we get one!

I will take a video of him doing it, or a nice compilation of pictures.

Steve

Phantom · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:16

the bins belong to the council at the end of the day so let them do what they want to them. plus as theyre passive people are getting worked up about nothing. i mean if they started to read/scan items you were throwing away then fair enough but as theyre not people are just getting worked up about nothing

Nitefly · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:50

I fail to see why people are annoyed about a microchip in a bin...

Can someone please tell me why it is so offensive? Its hardly going to look through your rubbish for your credit card numbers is it?

red11 · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:54

I think it's the fact that it was done without any consultation with the residents of Bournemouth.

Berserker · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:57

I don't mind them using them for identification purposes. Tax? No way in hell. Next thing you know we'll need CCTV surveillance to catch people putting their rubbish in someone else's bin.

(I'm sure that's been said countless times in SC - we bin share around here to save the bin men emptying lots of half empty bins).

PeterNem · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:01

Phantom said:
the bins belong to the council at the end of the day

Is that always the case?

We have 3 wheelie bins.
One for general waste, one for garden waste, and one for recycling.

Due to them only collecting bins every other week and us living in a household of 5, we've found out recycling bin (standard sized wheelie bin) is full for nearly a week before it's collected (they collect recycling stuff and garden waste one week, regular waste the next).

Because of this we've just paid the council a one off fee oto swap our "full sized" recycling bin for one that is 50% larger.

I'd have to check the paperwork parents have, but I wonder if we own this, or if they do. I expect now it's something bigger than everyone else has it'll soon get nicked.

Quick frankly it's a farce we're having to pay more to get extra packaging taken away - it shouldn't be used in the first place.

Edit, it's just occured to me that over the summer we've also had 5 skips on hire. admittedly 3 of these could probably be put down to building work, but the remaining 2 (at £160 per go) have been used to get rid of garden waste that has been piling up (the compost heap can;t take any more grass cuttings) and general household waste.

On top of the percentage that they take to cover waste removal from council tax, that's a hell of a cost assocated with waste removal.

Dr.EM · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:01

It only marks the bin with an electronic number which can be read. It records no information about you or the location of the bin. As it says it is passive, it'll likely be what is known as an "RFID" tag (radio frequency identification). It isn't "watching" you or anything, they could have written a number on each bin, but it is actually faster and cheaper to produce the chips. Those funny looking stickers you sometimes get on products in shops are the same things (you know the ones, where the underside looks like a circuit).

VeNT · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:09

Visage said:
If they've got nothing to hide then whats the problem?

I've always said that the innocent have nothing to fear from the police!
but who here can claim to be innocent of everything?

Phantom · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:12

PeterNem said:
Is that always the case?

it should say on the bin somewhere (usually on the front) that its the property of whatever council region you live in afaik.

VeNT · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:15

Phantom said:
it should say on the bin somewhere (usually on the front) that its the property of whatever council region you live in afaik.

unless you bought it yourself, like I've had to the last three times.

bikes · 31 Aug 2006 at 11:58

Locrian said:
Rip it out and send it to your MP with a strongly worded letter attached.

Its what i would do if we had one.

Just ripped mine out

Now just got to send to my MP

AJUK · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:00

Your MP will do nothing about it, they are in on the whole thing you know.

bikes · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:04

AJUK said:
Your MP will do nothing about it, they are in on the whole thing you know.

I realise that. But at least they'll know that not everybody is happy with what is going on

CF93 · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:09

Kerplunk said:
http://thisisbournemouth.co.uk/display.var.898712.0.chip_and_bin.php

I have just been and checked. Its there alright.

What an amazing idea.

Living in Bournemouth, mine is too.

Don't really care that it's there, but seriously annoyed that no-one told us about it in advance.

[rant] Bournemouth council really are the worst I've ever dealt with. There is so much incompetence and sheer stupidity it's unbelievable and it would be funny if they weren't so flamin ignorant, stupid, downright rude on occasion, and utterly utterly crap. Grrrrrr [/rant]

CF93 · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:10

Raze said:
I dont have one!

Though they probably will never introduce them round here, dont even have green bins to recycle our rubbish!!

Oh they will - there are three councils trialling them just now (Bournemouth being one) with the aim being nationwide rollout by 2010....

AJUK · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:13

bikes said:
I realise that. But at least they'll know that not everybody is happy with what is going on

Absolutely and here are a few apt quotes:

“"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams”

‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’

I don't know who said the second one, anyone?

alexthecheese · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:16

Jeni Stocks, of Queens Park, said: "I really do object to this. I feel it's against my human rights."

LOL.

Kerplunk · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:19

CF93 said:
Living in Bournemouth, mine is too.

Don't really care that it's there, but seriously annoyed that no-one told us about it in advance.

[rant] Bournemouth council really are the worst I've ever dealt with. There is so much incompetence and sheer stupidity it's unbelievable and it would be funny if they weren't so flamin ignorant, stupid, downright rude on occasion, and utterly utterly crap. Grrrrrr [/rant]

And to think I was going to apply for a job there in their, ever so delightful, IT Department.

Another BBC shenanigan.