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IF YOU LIVE in the Dublin city area, you’ll want to check on the latest changes to rubbish collection before you put out your next bin or bag.
Dublin City Council recently introduced new by-laws and under them it entered talks with waste collection companies to organise a specific day for different areas during which household rubbish would be collected.
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Regardless of what waste provider they use, everyone living in certain areas will have their rubbish collected on designated days.
You can find out more by looking at this Dublin City Council map and pinpointing the area where you live.
Hugh Coughlan of Dublin City Council’s Waste Management Services Division explained how the council thinks this change will benefit the city:
The fact that several waste collectors now operate in Dublin means that communities were being inconvenienced by numerous bin trucks in their area on a daily basis with resulting difficulties of footpaths blocked by bins, littering and traffic issues. These Bye Laws will ease these problems considerably.
He said that Dublin City Council’s Waste Management Services held talks with domestic waste collectors as part of the process to decide on the collection days.
All waste collectors are currently informing any customers who will require a change to their collection day. About 44,000 customers will see their collection day change as a result.
One campaigner who has been involved in raising awareness of the issues around illegal rubbish dumping in Dublin city told TheJournal.ie he believed the move “will certainly eliminate the sight of rubbish around the place”.
However, he cautioned:
It’s not going to take the problem of illegally dumped rubbish away – a lot more work needs to be done to tackle rogue landlords who don’t give a crap about their property or the tenants who live there. This is a huge problem in the north inner city.
He also raised the issue of landlords being made to provide bins, “appoint a tenant to take out the bins for collection and return afterwards and get something off their rent” suggesting that this would solve “a huge amount of the problem”.
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This is long overdue. Great to see it happen, hope it’s implemented well in practice
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Haha don’t worry Steve, I ‘lol’ed.
Make landlords responsible for their tenants rubbish? Eh, what next? Wipe their backsides for them too? How about we actually enforce the laws there to protect the enviornment instead?
As a resident, I dispose of my own waste. I’ve facilitated the storage of bins on my property and ensure that they are empty. As a resident. Irrespective of the fact that I own the property, I do this. Why should the rules be different for tenants? Surely if pollution was investigated, traced and prosecutions enforced there wouldn’t be an issue? Why should one resident be favoured in their refuse disposal over another on the basis of whom they pay for their residency?
It should be compulsory for landlords to have registered with a refuse collection company and have paid a year in advance as they can obviously add it on to tenants rent instead of renting accommodation with multiple tenancies and no refuse collection in place. This is a major problem in the north inner city area of Dublin.
This change is a minor step in the right direction. It will streamline, to some extent, DCC’s efforts to
tackle the dumping problem. Which remains out of control after 2 years of ineffective and under-resourced solutions.
However, we in http://dublinlitterblog.com do not envisage any major improvements resulting from this particular change to the regulations.
To give one example.
In one of worst affected areas, Summerhill, the weekday that’s worst for dumped rubbish is Wednesdays.
This is because the incumbent waste company’s
collection day is Wednesday, and the local dumpers add much of their stuff to the legitimate piles, left
out on Tuesday nights. Next morning, Wednesday, the bin trucks obviously take away only the legitimate
waste left out by their paying customers.
Large amounts of illegal waste remains behind.
So, the existence of a fixed collection day in this situation is actually aiding the dumpers.
It gives them a target.
There are 2 primary elements which are necessary to any feasible long-term solution.
1. an effective enforcement regime against dumpers. At the moment, dumpers operate with impunity. The chances of getting a fine are well under 1%.
2. an effective enforcement regime against landlords, particularly the rogue landlord types who operates modern day tenements. These Multiple Tenant Units, often old buildings converted into poor quality flats and bedsits, are a major source of dumping in the North Inner City area.
These 2 primary elements are essential to any convincing solution. Next Monday’s change may carry some secondary benefits, such as
streamlining DCC’s clean-up efforts, and perhaps also streamlining their efforts towards identification of dumpers.
However, we in Dublin Litter Blog believe that those 2 enforcement regimes, outlined above, are the only things that will really solve the problem.
Two years of this now and counting.
Regards.
Excellent and well argued Dublin Litter!
Hope it is implemented in the county as well in time .
In my area the problem isn’t illegal dumpers it’s the fact that we can wait up to 48 hours AFTER our bags are meant to be collected before anyone from Greyhound shows up- even after emailing and tweeting them. So legitimate and paid for rubbish gets left out for days without any care from the collection company. It’s ridiculous.
On my street greyhound only appear to collect bins. The same bag of rubbish outside one house remains uncollected for 3 collections now (ie 6 weeks) despite having a legitimate sticker on it.
Also, the bye laws are all well and good, but only if you have physical space to store your bins on your property. This clearly wasn’t thought through properly, as in some cases there is no option for bin storage other than the path due to how houses were built over the years. In my case, I have space for my green and black bin,but nowhere to store a brown bin when the new legislation is enforced in relation to segregating organic waste. DCC have no reasonable solution to offer other than this is my problem to solve; I will be penalised for something beyond my control. Anyone have any constructive suggestions?
ps. They introduced an effective fines system into this borough in the UK, and achieved a 90% reduction of illegal dumping in 6 months.
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/streets_cleaned_up_as_fines_brought_in_1_3369581
That’s the way to solve the problem. In contrast, there is no effective fining system in operation in Dublin. Nor is there any alternative system such as name-n-shame. The dumpers frequently dump in broad daylight on a busy street. They know that nothing will happen.
Regards
Hope it sorts put the problem in Dublin 8. It’s a mess around here!
This map seems odd? Last time I looked Rathfarnham, Dun Laoighre, etc were in Dublin so is this only relevant to those in the Dublin City constituency?
Btw I did read the article and am aware that it specifically refers to Dublin City Council but the author starts by saying “If you live in the Dublin area…” So I’m wondering if it is going to be Dublin wide or just withinDublin City?
Yes Dublin City is administered separately for local government stuff such as bin collection than the 3 Dublin counties(Fingal, South Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown). It will still cause confusion on streets where one side is City Council and the other is County Council and hence different sides of the same streets will have different bin collection days.
Hopefully if the Dublin Mayor vote gets passed all this will be done on an all Dublin basis though.
Sean that’s a very specific issue for a small number of people. For the rest it seems that at least there is some logic. Joined up thinking leaking through.
@fartybum. Your the second person I’ve seen in two day with a pic like that on as your profile. Is it necessary?
Hi Jenni – sorry for the confusion. I left the word ‘city’ out of the intro but have put it in as I can understand why you would have been confused.
Thanks,
Aoife
Thanks Aoife … I didn’t mean to nit pick … I was genuinely interested if this was going to happen county wide. Thanks for clarifying!
I agree Philip. He is obviously over compensating for a shortcoming elsewhere.
No problem! It’s not nit-picking at all, I can totally understand what you mean. Cheers!
Nothing like seeing a fat man’s flacid penis to start the day.
So the councils who should be collecting the rubbish having been paid twice to do it are still talking it. Given how redicolous this is remember Clare Daly went to jail over bin charges. We are some nation of losers to put up with this.
On several accasions I’ve seen bin bags burst onto the street while Bin Men were attempting to throw them into the back of the truck. On every occasion they ripped the tag from the bag and just kicked the rubbish aside and continued on their way. Such practice should be penalised.
WHAT? – The are PLANNING things now?
This is COMMUNISM. They are forcing COMMUNISM on our ultra efficient, sleek, entrepreneurial, competitive, lean, shiny, high-tech, IT, expert private bin services.
Whatever happened to the FREE MARKET????
Sure they may as well consolidate the service under one county council at this rate!!!!
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