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BIN COMPANY GREYHOUND has confirmed that its customers will be required to opt out of the slated pay-by-weight bin charges.
Last week Minister for Housing Simon Coveney put paid to potential spikes in costs for customers by announcing a year-long freeze price freeze.
Along with the major players in the industry, Dublin-based Greyhound Waste signed up to the agreement – but have now said customers will be transferred automatically should they not specify otherwise.
This change is not due to happen until the end of July, and customers will have to contact the bin company before then by post, email or telephone.
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The letter sent out by Greyhound Waste to its customers
In a statement to TheJournal.ie this evening, the company has said that the decision comes following feedback from its customers, and that it wanted to provide a choice.
Contracts for the refuse service will run for one year beginning on 1 August.
At the moment the agreement for waste companies to stick to a one-year deal is not binding, but the product of a good faith agreement between the government and the industry.
Should prices begin to increase, Minister Coveney said last week he would be willing to introduce legislation to cap the charges.
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suzie they might just have got away with their little sham if joe duffy hadn’t rowed in. seems like he had a good holiday, and a rest, he was on fire today.
Not sure about that… No doubt the unions would be demanding a €32k starting salary for a start. A properly regulated private sector is the way to go however when is anything in this country every properly regulated ? From granting licences to allowing competition to introducing half assed laws ….
And Paddy, bins will be picked up from 10am to 3pm with 3 tea breaks, and woe betide anyone asking them to work Bank Holiday Mondays…..the union will have something to say about that…..
Please no. You’ll be paying twice the price and you’ll be constantly told how great a service they provide. We need some insulation from crony socialism.
they havent been answering their phone all day and many older people havent a clue to use email, ive had to email for my old dear as she rang countless times and was just constanly on hold so they are not answering the phone on purpose, it’s absolutely disgraceful they are allowed get away with this, bring back the corpo indeed.
If they aren’t answering the phone, just simply switch provider and stop paying these thieves. Send them an email telling them their bins are out on the road if they want to retrieve them.
Better still, email them and give them notice that you are cancelling their services and the bins are to be removed from your home / premises within 48 hours. After which they will be invoiced for storage of their bins at the rate of €200.00 per hour.
If they “choose” not to remove them from your property in the allotted time, it will be deemed that they agree and accept such charges for storage of their bins on your property.
This is not a price freeze at all. We paid an “annual charge” to Greyhound upfront in January, which funnily enough we took to cover all of 2016. We’re now being asked for the same amount again, which surely is a breach of contract? That is separate to the pay per weight / pay per lift decision. I emailed Greyhound 10 days ago but have yet to receive a reply.
Can anyone tell a culchie like me what the Greyhound fees are – monthly standing fee, and then charge per kilo too? Just curious to how it might compare to elsewhere. Can’t easily fund the details on the Greyhound site.
€3.25 per week service charge. 35 cent per kilo for general waste, 25 cent (I think) for organic waste and “free” for recycling (subsidised by the other 2 bins)
Not sure about Greyhound but Thorntons pay by weight, we figure for an uplift of our 120lt bin would cost nearly 40 euro times that by 2 lifts per month. Then the compost bin approx 30 Euro per lift. You would have to get that lifted every second week because the food would rot and smell. I figure it would cost in and around 140 pm. Am currently paying just over 20 a month for general waste. Compost and recycling currently free.
I pay €15 per month and pay per lift . My current lift of bins cost €3.70. Black bin 13kg Brown bin 8.5kg and Recycle 10kg. If I paid by weight it would have cost me Black 13kg X.35c =4.55 Brown 8.5kg X .23c = 1.95. So my total would have been €6.50.
I am staying with pay per lift
@Ned – thanks. Our crowd in Wexford told us (before the whole thing was deferred) that the new charges would be €14 per month (broadly similar to your €3.25 per week) and then 25c per kg for waste. Recycling ‘free’, and we don’t get a brown bin out in the sticks.
@lisa – €40 even at that Dublin rate of 35c per kg would be approx 115kg of waste in your bin. Are you doing up the house or something, and getting rid of concrete and rubble?
We get a brown bin in Enniscorthy. I use the bring centre for just about everything, waste bin rarely, if ever used. Was with Wastepal, til green star bought them. Bills went up almost immediately.
In Tralee we have been paying by weight for 15 months now.
Service charge €12 a month X 12 = €144
Waste- 21c
Food – 16c
Recycling-11c.
Living on my own my bin charges have shot up from €75 a year to €240
It’s the elderly and those living on their own who would normally only put their bins out every 6/8 weeks that are hardest hit.
@ Jumperoo. That would be every two weeks. As a family of 6, we tend to fill our bin to the max. And not with rubble or concrete. Our waste bin is 120kg.
@lisa. I think you may be getting confused. Maybe you’ve got a 120 litre bin (a pretty standard size ‘small’ wheelie bin). It doesn’t automatically follow that filling it takes 120kg of material.
@ Jumperoo… Nope, its the larger of the two sizes. I’ve emailed Thorntons this morning to opt out. Just incase you needed to contact them and the response was
Thorntons Recycling are part of the Waste Management Association of Ireland and our prices are not changing as per the ruling last week by the Government.
@ Rob, that’s what i am paying a month at present and my bin is the larger of the two. Recycle and Compost bin currently free. Unfortunately don’t have a glass bin, so frequent trips to the bottle bank required.
When I moved in, Greyhound were responsible for the green bin collection & the Council for the other 2 bins… The council started collections immediately, while it took countless calls and almost 2 months for Greyhound to get their act together…I have no regard for them at all.
However from the day & hour Panda took over the service has been faultless… If this was a fully functioning open market… Greyhound should have gone under but it’s not so they still can treat their customers with contempt…
Opting out could also cost. I heard the show today and those who got answers were told they could stay on current plan but there was a charge being levied!!! Move, people, this lot are a shower of gangsters.
I found the best way (If the recycling centre is not to faraway) is to take your recycling to the recycling centre once a month’ (it’s free)and your waste to your local garage (most have waste machines) and pay €7 to put two reasonable size bags in it once a month. So €7 in total a month can’t be bad. No more bins.
We have been paying by weight in Tralee for 15 months now. When Alan Kelly stated that he warned the waste companies that he would come down hard on any company seen to being taken advantage of people he obviously overlooked our waste company . I have seen my bin charges more than tripled and now we’ve been told he can carry on charging us these rip of prices even though the rest of the country have had their charges frozen. It is especially unfair to the elderly and those living in their own who would only put their bins out every 6/8weeks.
Could the customers of this disgraceful company not come together and leave en masse to another company? That would hit the two yolks who run this sham where it hurts.
Unfortunately thete is not much competition in this industry. I was furious with the increase Thorntons were proposing but there was only one other company to choose. What’s going to happen in 12 months.
I got the email today and was advised that if I want to stay on my current plan I’d have to pay €34 in advance before the 1st August I also noticed they had the wrong account number on the email. Anyone else get this?
Contract or not, you don’t have to tolerate any nonsense. Switch provider and ignore any letters from these gangsters, leave their bins out on the road and good riddance to them.
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