Cracks deepen in Dublin City Council’s waste management plan.

dublin | bin tax / household tax / water tax | news report Monday November 20, 2006 23:06 by Ringsend Campaign Against the Bin Tax

Today the Council received objections from residents to the management of waste collection in the area.

Some members of the Ringsend Campaign Against the Bin Tax

Cracks deepen in Dublin City Council’s waste management plan.

To make way for the Brown Bins, which is for food waste only, the DCC have cut the black bin service in half to once a fortnight in the new houses in Ringsend, as part of a pilot scheme. For many householders, particularly those with larger families, this is not enough and it results in overflowing bins area .

Smelly Bins….
The food waste brown bins are disgusting after two weeks, with insects crawling all over them. The Council does not offer a cleaning service and expect people to drag the infested bins through their homes and to clean these bins after. This is not good enough.

The Bin Tax campaign believes that food recycling (brown bin collection) should be an extra collection and not a substitute for ordinary black bin collection.

No Consultation…
Everyone in the Community should also have a say in how their waste is managed. Only those who are on waivers, partially paid or who have paid the bin tax in full received a letter informing them of changes to the waste collection service. Waste and recycling affects ALL members of our community and we all have a democratic right to decide how we deal with our waste.

Local anti bin tax campaigners are still opposing the Council’s unfair bin tax. They are throwing their rubbish onto the back of the bin lorries every fortnight. They are being joined by more and more people who have paid the bin tax or have waivers who now realise that the Council is more interested in cutting the service rather than cleaning up our waste.

Today the council received objections to the Brown Bin service and an official promised to get back to the Campaign within two days.
Southside People came out to photograph the handing in of the objections and Q102 ran an interview with the Bin Tax Campaign on their hourly bulletins and at 6 .30pm.

The letter states:

Letter to Dublin City Council

As a Resident of the New Houses in Ringsend and subject to the new Brown Bin pilot scheme imposed on us I want to inform the Council of the following:

We did not ask for nor did we agree to receive the Brown Bins. They were pushed on our community without consulting residents to take part in any new system. They are filthy and are a very serious public health concern. They are difficult to use and there is no cleaning service after they have been collected.

We now have problems storing rubbish as the normal waste collection service is now every two weeks and the binmen will not collect excess bags.

All members of the community should be involved with deciding how we deal with our waste.

We are in favour of recycling. Our community has seen a reduction in recycling facilities in our area. The Irish Glass Bottle has been shut and this was Ireland’s only glass recycling facility. PPP housing is being built on the recently closed recycling centre at Bath Avenue and an incinerator is being proposed for Poolbeg, which will require 600,000 tonnes of waste per annum to run.

We want our weekly waste collection service returned and the council to take back the brown bins immediately. End of Letter.

Residents will continue with the Campaign and join in with the Dublin wide protest at City Hall next Monday at 6.30pm when Dublin City Councillors will be voting on the Estimates for next year. This will also include a vote to increase the Bin Tax.