View Full Version : Chip And Bin - Bigbrother in your Garbage
bicycle
07-03-2010, 12:18 AM
The UK is installing microchips into bins so they can be weighed and you charged for how much you throw away.
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hagbard_celine
07-03-2010, 02:47 PM
A hot needle will get rid of it:cool:. If we can find out exactly where on the bin the chip is.
ozpixie
17-03-2010, 03:17 AM
At our previous council, all bins had a number. Each bin was weighed as it was emptied and if too heavy a note was put on it issuing a warning. Each garbage truck has a colour monitor installed so the driver can see what is going into the truck. I never heard of any fines or penalties being imposed even during the blitz on clean paper and cardboard recycling. That council also had a dedicated team of garbos who picked up rubbish dumped on the roadsides and those people did get fined heavily.
At our current council I do not know if the bins are numbered or weighted but I do know there are people at the dump who sift thru the rubbish because we have seen some of our old stuff in the dump shop.
himitsunomiko
26-03-2010, 05:24 PM
Its the problem reaction solution scenario
"Let's make products with waaay too much packaging, then CHARGE people to rid the waste"
My how deep the conspiracey against humanity runs!
I mean, go to the drive thru of mcdonalds, spend 3 dollars, and the wieght of trash is comprable to the weight of food!
jakemaverick
26-03-2010, 09:01 PM
another problem is that the number does not actually correspond to you....because all the bins were jumbled up with your neighbours b4 u had chance to put house numbers on them!
computer says u r guilty then u r.....they dnt even need to prove that the computer said anything! they just say it did.....and the only way to get a name out of a g-man is to kill one in self defence, apparently.....
godgoo
26-03-2010, 09:30 PM
Seems reasonable. Too much rubbish at the end of the day, tbh.
the itinerant shrubber
31-03-2010, 11:09 AM
Its an RFID chip about the size of a milk bottle top and its under the front part of the bin under the rim that is below the rim of the lid. Crouch under with a torch and youll see it.
I poked mine out years ago with a dinner knife. Easy.
Where mine used to be.
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bobbydiva
02-04-2010, 04:04 PM
flush your leftovers down the loo!