Governance of ICT Re: [LINK] Surveillance in extremis

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Councils do have a statutory responsibility for waste management, and 
> they do have to be very careful how they exercise that management at the 
> risk of incurring the wrath of the EPA; I would have thought that would 
> be incentive enough.

...interesting, referring back to the Ryde council, and the possible 
RFID application.

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
<snip>
 > - The Weekly Times.
 > on Page 8, on 23 August 2006 there is an article entitled...
 > 'Bugged Bins Claim: "Just Garbage"'
 >
 > "Some residents, including Ryde MP John Watkins, are seeing red..."
 >
 > "According to Ryde City Mayor clr Ivan Petch, the electronic tags were
 > part of a monitoring system installed to gather informaiton on a
 > suburb-by-suburb basis on the amount of waste being collected."
 >
 > "Under our new waste cntract we are only paying the contractor on every
 > bin collected. The electronic tags only store the numbe of the bin,
 > which we previously stamped on the outside. Now we can electronically
 > monitor which bins are being emptied or not," Mayor Petch said.

Perhaps they are going to report on average household waste..on a suburb 
by suburb basis. Though I would have thought that a financial incentive 
for residents would work better. [though I do admit, that this is in 
place to a degree in Leichhardt, recycle bins are "free" and there are a 
choice of two sizes of garbage bin...we have overacheived and cope with 
half the minimum garbage bin allocation].

...the weight based system would have been attractive, but the overheads 
of collecting the bins is probably still greater than the disposal of 
their contents.

M
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Marghanita da Cruz
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