Garbage is big business was Re: [LINK] Surveillance in extremis

[Marghanita da Cruz]

...just some background on this.

The objective here is to monitor domestic waste and to reward people who
recycle, compost, wormfarm etc rather than chucking everything in the
one garbage bins. The problem is then we all pay the cost of people who
are too lazy and don't care...well in keeping with the approach used for
everything else...why not make them pay for it rather than the whole
community charging for it...

I heard of the idea, apparently in use in Seattle, from a Greens
Councillor in Leichhardt.
googling...I came up with

> 'Zero waste' is Seattle's new garbage mantra
> Utility wants to sharply cut landfill shipments
> 
> By DEBERA CARLTON HARRELL
> SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
> 
> The city of Seattle is talking trash.
> 
> Moving beyond recycling to preventing garbage itself as the next generation of social and civic responsibility, Seattle Public Utilities is launching an initiative called Wasteless in Seattle.
> 
> With the long-term goal of "zero waste," the city hopes to drastically reduce the need for landfills and to lower disposal, transportation and energy costs.
> 
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/232985_waste18.html

In my view not enough is happening in Body Corporates... and I have been
keying thoughts on this at
<http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/stratamanagement.html>

Marghanita

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1719462.htm
> 
> Council under fire over 'bin-bugging'
> 
> New South Wales Deputy Premier John Watkins is demanding Ryde Council in 
> Sydney's north-west come clean about monitoring devices that have been 
> placed in thousands of residents' bins.
> 
> Mr Watkins, also the Member for Ryde, says Council has placed tracking 
> devices in up to 90,000 bins to monitor the level of waste coming from 
> each household.
> 
> He says the Council has failed to consult ratepayers about the 
> installation of microchips in garbage bins and that residents need to 
> know what is behind the 'bin-bugging'.
> 
> "Will it result in higher rates or increased charges for heavier bin 
> loads?" he said.
> 
> "Residents really deserve to know the answer before the surveillance 
> starts, not after.
> 
> "Residents at the end of the day are paying for this covert caper - 
> they've got a right to know what's going on."
> 
> He says ratepayers were not consulted about the 'bin-bugging'.
> 
> "They've stuck tracking bugs on 90,000 garbage bins, including my 
> family's, without telling us anything about it and as a ratepayer I'd 
> like to know what they're up to," he said.
> 
> "I'm getting calls from other ratepayers who are asking what's happening 
> with strange men late at night putting things on their bins."
> 


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Marghanita da Cruz
Ramin Communications
http://www.ramin.com.au
Phone: 0414-869202
Email: marghanita at ramin.com.au