[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by lewisa

How do you pay for your gas, electricity, telephone, pay-per-view, income tax, national insurance, council tax?

Hmm, well I dont know the ins and outs of it, but I'll attempt to answer how it can be done -

A unique ID is attached to your bin
It is automatically wieghed when loaded into the truck.
SMS technology is used to immediately inform a centralised database how much you have disposed of
A monthly bill is issued

There will be a large cost associated with the capital expenditure in setting the system up, but once up and running there will be very little adminstrative involvement(not counting the collection of monies, thats about the only area requiring serious amounts of administration that I can see)

It seems quite straightforward to me.

I think the complications come in if the bins are to be locked, - which presumably they'd have to be? How else then would you prevent your neighbours from putting their rubbish into your bin