blue boxes chipped, old or new news? - Page 4

WillowTheWhisp · 26-09-2006, 16:13

Too simple Less, far too simple for HBC let alone the powers that be at Westminster.

garinda · 26-09-2006, 16:29

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.

cashman · 26-09-2006, 16:31

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Originally Posted by Neil

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.

i don't think they are rubbish pictures neil,think they are quite good.

garinda · 26-09-2006, 16:32

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Originally Posted by cashman

i don't think they are rubbish pictures neil,think they are quite good.

Its a bit sad Neil and Romps have seperate beds though...and where's Weed in the middle?

WillowTheWhisp · 26-09-2006, 16:35

You get a separate bin each for plastic bottles and for cans? We have to put BOTH into one mingy sack! Where do you put your glass Neil?

garinda · 26-09-2006, 16:39

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

You get a separate bin each for plastic bottles and for cans? We have to put BOTH into one mingy sack! Where do you put your glass Neil?

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.

WillowTheWhisp · 26-09-2006, 16:42

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!

garinda · 26-09-2006, 16:51

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

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!

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

Neil · 26-09-2006, 17:08

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

You have a green sack??

So the course of antibiotics didn't work Rindy

garinda · 26-09-2006, 17:09

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Originally Posted by Neil

So the course of antibiotics didn't work Rindy

Half worked. The other one has a healthy tan.

Neil · 26-09-2006, 17:14

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Originally Posted by garinda

I'm happily not tagged.

What suprises me is what they are going to do with the information they get from the chips?

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.

Neil · 26-09-2006, 17:17

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Originally Posted by garinda

Half worked. The other one has a healthy tan.

Reply had best be a PM

garinda · 26-09-2006, 17:34

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Originally Posted by Neil

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.

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!

Gayle · 26-09-2006, 18:05

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.

Less · 26-09-2006, 18:08

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Originally Posted by Neil

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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