It has been reported that Dublin City Council has been forced to remove some of the city’s bins because a number of people out there didn’t want to pay their bin charge. Ah lads…
Around 200 public bins have been removed from the streets of Dublin after it was discovered that some bins were actually being used to dispose of household waste. It wasn’t you was it?
According to the Irish Examiner, around 50 bins were removed because they had become illegal dumping ‘hot spots’ – if you will – while the other bins removed was due to other ‘illegal dumping’ (which we don’t want to know about) and ‘underuse’.
There were 5,000 bins on Dublin’s city streets as of January 2011, however this has been slowly cut down since then. The City Council took the decision to remove the bins, following a review of the situation for ‘budgetary reasons’, reports the Irish Examiner.
You might think, ‘why get rid of the bins when you can just make the opening smaller? Surely that will stop people dumping household waste?’ Well, the council tried that already, but rubbish bags were still being forced in or left beside the bins. Well, us Dub’s are a persistent bunch after all.
The worst affected area, which saw a total of 18 bins being removed, was the Dublin north central area.
So if you’re wondering why that overflowing bin outside your gaff has been uprooted and is now gone (including the household waste that you’ve been shoving into it), you’ll now know why.
