This may not be breaking news to you; but it is to me!
Some meddling bloody bureaucrat has come-up with a really bright idea. We shall soon be issued with electronic keys (above), that open our public waste bins, and the amount of 'black bags' we put in will be counted throughout the year, so that an extra tax can be added to our already high local taxes.
The obvious effect of this will be more fly-tipping. Why place your rubbish in a public waste bin, if you're going to be charged for the pleasure? Far easier just to chuck it to the side of the road (making sure first that you can't be identified). Of course one could simply stockpile all the black bags, open the waste bin just once at the end of the year, then pile them all in.
Big brother really has arrived. You can't do a damned thing these days without either being spied upon, or taxed. It really has become ridiculous. Apart from anything, we are already paying for rubbish collection through our local taxes. Better, I would have thought, to spend a small amount of money on re-educating the public about their rubbish, and to increase fines for ignoring the basic rules.
I get the impression that our lives are no longer under our own control, and that France's massive bureaucracy has taken over. Civil servants rule everything; even our rubbish.
Good grief, I hope they don't introduce that here.
ReplyDeleteWe are quite careful with our rubbish, so we shouldn't be too affected by the new ruling, but I can see rubbish being dumped all over the place; in fact almost anywhere other than in the new fancy waste bins.
DeleteFrance is incredibly well organised. It could never happen here. Keys would be lost, borrowed, thrown in the sea and the black bags arranged around the outside of rubbish bins.
ReplyDeleteAnd where would the strays get their dinners if the bins are locked. Outrage!
The yellow vests will have a new cause to protest!
I was just envisaging the empty bins surrounded by black bags. If they go ahead, I'm sure that's what'll happen.
DeleteI hope here they will never think about it.
ReplyDeleteOnce an idea catches-on, it tends to spread!
DeleteWhat a crazy idea. Does this mean you don't have rubbish collections from home ( I know nothing about how things work there)
ReplyDeleteNo, out in the countryside we have no home collections, just randomly placed public bins. It seems to work OK at the moment, this is just another money-making scheme.
DeleteSometimes our bins don't get emptied because strangers have dumped the 'wrong' rubbish in our bins. So a lock would be handy for that reason, but not for spying on us.
ReplyDeleteIn winter ours a regularly emptied, in summer (when there are hordes of tourists) not so often. They're no fools.
DeleteHere in our village it's the naughties that put their full plastic bags out just after the weekly collection and they stay there 'til the next week attracting the wild and domestic animals. Whatever the system it will be abused by some folk!
ReplyDeleteBack in the UK, we were only allowed to put out rubbish on the day of collection, otherwise the Seagulls had a feast.
DeleteMethinks the locks will soon be broken off. They would be around here. We have a lot of fly-tipping round here since charges were introduced at the official tips.
ReplyDeleteThe whole idea is open to abuse. Smashing the locks sounds right!
DeleteHere we have free weekly home collection and the local tips are also free but we still get fly tipping. One Boxing Day we took a walk along our lane and found two plastic carrier bags by the side of the road, both full with someone's Christmas rubbish. The remains of the turkey carcass plus wrapping paper and other detritus. What made it worse is that the bags were only a few yards from a small parking area where there are two rubbish bins. Obviously we picked them up and deposited them in the bins but really!!!
ReplyDeletePeople are crazy. I'm constantly picking up bits of rubbish that have been thrown from cars. Pure laziness.
DeleteWe are issued with a certain size, gull-proof bag and anything that isn't in the bag is fined at £70 - in theory. The bags are big enough for us. When they were first introduced, the bin men took away the gull-proof bag with the rubbish and I had to ask for a new one. That's when I dealt with the bureaucracy. Your keys are mad.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was last in Brighton we had big plastic boxes for recyclables, and huge bins for our black bags. Everything overflowed regularly.
DeleteThat's the most ridiculous idea EVER! I can see that Philippe will be having lots of bonfires and digging holes in the woods.
ReplyDeleteWe compost, burn, and recycle. But, as you suggest, I can see a future of large pits in the garden. Medieval times return!
DeleteFor about the last 10 years our 3 local villages have had NO rubbish pick-ups at all. NONE. At strategic points throughout the villages they have sunken bins for household refuse (black bags), paper, plastic and aluminium and glass. Anything other than that must be taken to the recycling centre. At first I HATED it but now I love it. They are not unsightly and it means you can get rid of your rubbish any time you want.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you have somewhere to take your rubbish, it's free to deposit, and you're not watched-over; than we have no problems. It's just the awful control over everything we do which annoys.
DeleteEvery day I wake up to some new crap rule that has been introduced into our life or some word we cannot use anymore, I'm thoroughly sick of it all.
ReplyDeleteLost for words.
Briony
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When I was over-wintering in B'tn, the rules seems to change weekly. Also our black plastic recycling containers would disappear. If the Seagulls got to your bag before the bin-men did; they wouldn't touch it. It was a nightmare.
DeleteAt least your municipality (you and your neighbors) will only pay for and charge you for your waste and not for the waste from other villages, vacationers or unregistered b&b’s.
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