Pay as you throw
There’s talk at the moment of a ‘pay as you throw’ system for charging for rubbish collections to reduce the amount we produce. Can anyone tell me how this would work in a block of flats (such as mine) where there is a communal rubbish chute?
xD.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
There’d be cctv outside your flat
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Hardly. Unless someone is going to watch all the footage of me taking things in and out and whether I go past the chute, I doubt it.
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I would be concerned it might also result in more fly tipping and bonfires.
One also wonders if bins with combination locks will be issued, to avoid someone else’s rubbish being secretly slipped into a bin just prior to collection.
Some poor suckers are bound to be caught out when the first thing they know about it is when they wonder why their bill is so high.
November 3rd, 2007 at 4:11 pm
I’m not sure, Phil. Fly-tipping the occasional fridge or car is doable – it’s one thing – but fly-tipping a household’s rubbish all the time, just because of amount and frequency, is something else. Equally, I don’t think there’d be that many bonfires, as much of the UK is too built up. People are also basically law-abiding.
The padlocks is the reverse of a problem that I’ve encountered before – grocery deliveries when you’re not there. Tesco has now opened a supermarket just round the corner, but before that I used to order groceries online. Being a bit scatter-brained, I was never sure when I’d be in, and a couple of weeks’ worth of provisions wouldn’t fit in a postbox
so I wondered if it’d've been possible to have a large lockbox that people could leave groceries in. I think the logistics would have been too much.