As forecast in my last report, along with all the hundreds of new laws pasted by our "glorious" leaders (well in their minds anyway)
we now have our local bunch of crooks adding to the spy ring.
While I have no doubt that some of our readers are well into the P.C. thing!and enviromental issues and all that. Do they approve of what is being done by our local councils?
SPYING!
Spying you ask?
Yes there are bugs in our bins. Not the creepy crawley type either,
electronic bugs. These bugs are used to spy on how much rubbish we put in our bins, if we put too much in they are going to charge us.
As yet Cambridge dont appear to have fitted them, but Peterborough has, so it is only a matter of time, unless we take action now.
Where do you find this BUG? If you have read your newsletter there is a picture of the top half of a bin on the front page. The bug is about the size of a penny and fitted up under the front edge of the bin, at the front. These are being fitted at sometime during the day when people are at work so would not know they were there.
If you find one attached to your bin, do not destroy it (this could be classified as criminal damage)just remove it and send it back to the council. Any covering letter and what it says is your choice.
As I said they do not appear to have been fitted on Cambridge bins yet, but I keep checking and will update you if I find one.
It just gets spookier and spookier
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I don't get it. How does the bug work? Does it count how often your bin is opened? Does it somehow read the barcode on items you throw out? Is there secret circuitry in my bin that weighs my rubbish? How can it tell when it's emptied? If it can tell when it's emptied how can it tell if it's full when it's emptied?
I don't get it.
To answer your question, the bug triggers a reader on the back of the lorry which will read the data contained in the bug. IE the address that the bin is registered to. As the bin is lifted it weighs it and this is recorded by the equipment fitted to the lorry. This is downloaded when the waggon returns to the depot. Quite how the council decides what is in the bin has not yet been made clear. As far as I can determine at the moment it is all down to actual weight rather than what is in the bin. If they decide that it weighs too much they will send you a additional bill. This is on top of your normal council tax bill! Now you can see why this must be stopped before it starts. The only action that can be taken are those listed in the last entry, to avoid any criminal proceedings.
As you can quess details are just a little hard to come by, but rest assured, I will be continuing my investigations and any thing I can learn will be passed on to my readers.
Now I get it.
It does seem faintly sinister. The possibility that people will be charged extra (fined) for having a heavy bin is ridiculous surely?
I had presumed this was supposed to somehow help the environment by encouraging recycling but I can't imagine how. Also were we (you know US, the voters, the taxpayers, US) were we consulted? I must have missed it.....
Surely it does encourage recycling, if they're just measuring the weight of your general wheely bin? Either that, or it encourages fly tipping.
Those poor flies.
Ahhh. Ok.
I get confused by the number of bins and boxes and bags for this and sacks for that and which gets charged for how and who said what to why and when.
I think it's becoming clearer though.
I thought the whole point of the various bins was that the council is trying to meet its targets for recycling - Rio summit and all that jazz. This certainly won't help.
Well to try and answer some of the points raised I will try and take them from the top.
Consultation! whats that? Since when were we consulted on anything that was taken notice of.The guided bus for one.
As for the flies well they can buzz off. But seriously
We try in our househlod to recycle as much as possible. But with so many restrictions on what you put in what bin, its not suprising people give up and just throw stuff in whichever bin is nearest.
As with all things while there is no doubt that the earth is getting warming, one only has to look back through history to see how many time this has happened.
It has gone the other way as well. If yellowstone blows up the way the "experts" say it will, we won't have to worry about global warming now will we.
Spook would just like to point out that any spelling
mistakes are down to rushing to type in the answers.(plus the fact I can't spell)
Yellowstone blowing? I haven't heard of that one. When will that be and where is the best (safest) place to be to ensure continuation of human race (no I'm not offering to supply my womb to start us all offagain - find someone called Eve for that)?
Hi pansey p,re your comment there was a program on the idiot box just recently that was talking about super volcano's of which Yellowstone is one. It stated that if it does BLOW
the earth will desend into conditions similar to what they threatened as nuclear winter. The dust will blot out the sun for years. should be fun. But as we all believe "EXPERTS" dont hold your breath
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