My bin is bugged
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She is correct. Being bugged without knowledge is against human rights.alexthecheese said:LOL.
Yet again the authroities are approaching the percieved problem from completely the wrong angle. Instead of trying to reduce the amount of waste generated in a household by putting pressure on manufacturers to reduce packaging or by education to change purchasing habits, they have chosen to pilot a scheme that will lead to charging people for the rubbish they generate. Thereby perpetuating the problem.
This whole world is ******* up real bad.
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Seems to me (if it does happen in the future) to be just another way of getting people to pay more money to Councils, ie: by charging for how much non-recyclable waste you now throw away
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AJUK said:She is correct. Being bugged without knowledge is against human rights.
Yet again the authroities are approaching the percieved problem from completely the wrong angle. Instead of trying to reduce the amount of waste generated in a household by putting pressure on manufacturers to reduce packaging or by education to change purchasing habits, they have chosen to pilot a scheme that will lead to charging people for the rubbish they generate. Thereby perpetuating the problem.
This whole world is ******* up real bad.
Admittedly they've gone about it the wrong way, but you don't own your bin so how is it against your human rights?
I can see the potential for use and it sounds good, but like you say they've gone about it completely **** about face.
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RaohNS said:
It's not like it's even a GPS transmitter anyway, you couldn't find the bin just from the chip.
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Phantom said: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
I paid £30 for a replacement bin that the council said they hadnt lost. That is my bin not theirs.
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I work in the cleansing industry the chip/bin can be used for a lot of reason.
It gathers weights of bins it tips and can be used to work out who is recycling and who isnt etc.
It can warn the vehicle operator if they are close to the legal weight limit for the vehicle.
If it is a paid service i.e green waste it can be used to stop a bin tipping if the service has not been paid for.
And in the future if a tipping fee is introduced it will work out how much to charge you for the service.
It gathers weights of bins it tips and can be used to work out who is recycling and who isnt etc.
It can warn the vehicle operator if they are close to the legal weight limit for the vehicle.
If it is a paid service i.e green waste it can be used to stop a bin tipping if the service has not been paid for.
And in the future if a tipping fee is introduced it will work out how much to charge you for the service.
DRZ said:By forced, I mean that if I want to go out today and buy a TV, it comes in an outer box, an inner cardboard sleeve, polystyrene, plastic bags galore etc. Ready meals are in loads of packaging as are a great many products. Yes, it might not be as appealing to consumers who pick the products but it would sure as hell reduce the amount of landfill each year if we taxed the nads off packaging
There was a government think tank recently who stated that people should pay a tax on excessive non recyleable rubbish. Sounds rather a good idea to me.