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A RAFT OF new regulations on waste in the capital city has been released by Dublin City Council.
Under the by-laws, which come into effect today, a person leaving out rubbish (be that an owner, tenant or agent of either) cannot do so until after 6pm on the day before it is due to be collected. (Or after 5pm for commercial rubbish). Rubbish bins – or any uncollected rubbish – must be taken in no later than 10am the day after it was due to be collected.
As for waste collection agents, they must pick up rubbish between 7pm and midnight on the designated collection day in the Central Commercial District. They can now only collect rubbish in residential areas between the hours of 6am and 9pm.
When a waste collector refuses to pick up rubbish in future, they will have to leave a note on the bin or rubbish bag “indicating the reason for such refusal or directing the holder to contact the authorised waste collector, to establish the reason for the refusal”.
The new regulations are targeting increasing waste problems in the city. TheJournal.ie has recently ran a number of stories highlighting illegal dumping, including this video filmed by a resident and business owner in the inner city who calls the situation “pretty unbearable”:
via Summer St North/Vimeo
Over the weekend, an assistant area manager for DCC told TheJournal.ie that the council planned to take action against their own tenants who don’t respond to letters asking them how they dispose of their rubbish.
The council yesterday announced that it awarded a €2m bin contract to Greyhound services with the collection company claiming it is “saving Dublin City Council €12m a year”.
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Most European Cities collect overnight. And at that in the inner cities everyday. I’d rather they zipped around at night when traffic is lighter and streets empty.
What do they mean when they say:
uncollected rubbish must be taken in before 10 am the day after it was supposed to be collected.
So if a bin man forgets my rubbish I have to take it back?
Hopefully this helps clean up the city
Dream on.. the type of person who throws their rubbish onto the street doesn’t give a fiddlers about any Bye Laws. Sure it is already against the law to litter.
The deterioration of city streets coincides with ever increasing bin charges.
Scrap the bin tax!
Scrap what bin tax?
I dunno Stephen. I think its case whereby the type of person who leaves bags of rubbish on the street just simply cant be ar$ed. I doubt any bin tax influences their decision
nonsense.
About time! The city has become an embarrassment in the last few months
So the illegal dumpers will restrict their activities to these times, will they?
It simply had to be seen to be believed on Sunday match day…The place was buried underneath pile after pile of illegally dumped rubbish, the walk from Gardiner St to Crooke Park and the surrounding areas was an absolute disgrace. The sites and smells are truly sickening.
DCC are charged with the upkeep of a city, they need to wise up to this fact and start acting in the interest of the city, it is clear that the illegal dumpers have the upper hand in this as there are zero controls in place to deal with the issue. It is time to end the sound bites for the media and do something now!
I live in the north inner city and received no notice of these by-laws or restrictions, every policy that they drip feed to the media is deliberately vague and serves only to give the appearance of action. Until I see some details and action I shall remain sceptical.
Just wondering about the new law stating that bins, uncollected rubbish etc must be brought in by 10am on day of collection. If people are at work they may not be around to do that.
Ah just saw the day after its due to be collected upon rereading.
Was just about to point that out. Didn’t want you to be panicked! Thanks, Susan
Every bin bag should have barcode or some identification tags that can be traced back to the households.
I should get a rubbish agent. I didn’t even know it was an option.
These bye-laws are to be welcomed.
Although, as with any laws, their future success or failure depend upon effective enforcement.
As well as the scheduling rules outlined in the article, there are a number of other provisions which could effect improvement to the current dire state of the streets.
Article 4.g :
- A management company shall ensure that adequate numbers of waste containers are available for use by holders in a multi-unit development.
Rogue landlords are currently a big part of the problem. They rent out low quality tenement flat or bedsit type accommodation, usually in breach of various Planning, Environmental or Health regulations.
http://dublinlitterblog.com/tag/rogue-landlord/
The rogue landlord is always anonymous and hides behind a management company. They never provide any waste storage facilities, so all 7 or 8 households in the tenement have to come up with their own solution (which many don’t). There’s usually nowhere to store the rubbish in these 8 small flats, so people just chuck it out on the street. Which of course is unacceptable & the dumpers have to take responsibility for their decision to dump. But the rogue landlord & their agents in the mgmt company takes a share of the blame too.
So this inclusion of this specific provision in the Bye Laws, targeting management companies, is to be welcomed.
And there are a number of other provisions which also seem promising.
But it all depends on effective enforcement & follow-up. There are only around 20 Litter Wardens for all of Dublin, so the enforcement at ground level is a concern.
As a landlord why should I pay for someone else’s waste. Then there is no incentive to reuse or recycle. The filthy pigs that litter our street should be fined or given community service.
It is not the landlords that litter the streets and everyone should pay for THEIR own waste.
The council give bin waivers to so called poor tenants and that’s a big mistake they shouldn’t be allowed do that so people would recycle.
Most of this waste is food packaging from shops and takeaways – yet why is no one putting pressure on them to reduce their packaging or get them to contribute to cleaning up? They should have packaging bins at store exits you can dump them in BEFORE you leave…
A few rubbish fires will soon concentrate minds, rubbish removal is a duty of local authorities which they seem to be trying to pass on to individuals who do not for the most part need any more crap from local or national government. I bet that there are still more suits than overalls in the Dublin Councils.
BTW I am not advocating starting rubbish fires but they are an inevitable consequence of leaving so much combustibles around.
we have plenty of rubbish fires already
So if they don’t collect on the day they should and we pull our bins back in the next day, are we stuck with no collection of that bin for another 2 weeks?? The collections by Grayhound are a disgrace as it all ready stands. Didn’t think this one through now did they.
If you put your bin out and they collect it just before 10 am and you are at work till 5 pm and get home at 7pm, who can take the rubbish bin back inside if no one’s home?!
Things are getting silly now with rubbish it’s bad enough we have to sort our rubbish into categories glass plastics etc now we have special times to put it out who makes up these silly ideas? why don’t they leave our rubbish alone as long as it’s cleared off the streets that’s the main thing
Big fines, zero tolerance!
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