Refuse Charges & Bin Fines - The Movie

In 2002, a stealth process began of extra charges for refuse collection in the Dublin 15 area. Creeping increases over several subsequent years, eventually saw the entire process of refuse collection, sorting, re-cycling and/or disposal, being transferred from Local Authorities, to the private sector. Costs to the community went from payment via central taxation to the aforementioned, plus increasing cost bin tags, plus a hefty annual standing charge for so-called non recyclable black bin collections and onward since 2016 into charging by weight for all bin lifts (Black Bin=Non recyclable, Green Bin=Recyclable and Brown Bin=Compostable). The upshot of all of the aforementioned is that the community has been forced to take on the burden of economic rent or private profit for a public service which here to fore was paid via one payment stream only i.e. central taxation. Needless to say, communities are not very happy with the additional cost burdens they have been forced to bear.