the rubbish in our bins is measured by weight, whereas it is the volume that goes into landfill sights.?

Question

Surely our household waste should be charged by volume, not weight.

Views?

Answer 1

What ho, a goodly question.
We have two wheelie bins and green bags here in rural Bedfordshire, collected fortnightly in rotation.
One lid green, with paper, plastic etc, and two bags of grass cuttings etc, in a black one with kitchen waste & things.
They are tipped into the same truck once a week, and taken away to dear knows where.
I have checked this weight thing with our bins, but the local Council can't be bothered.
Oh, I am not whinghing, but this re-cycling lark is a farce.
We are being conned.
I put glass, such as old wine bottles into the slot, and hopefully they come back to me as new bottles. But I sometimes doubt it.
Landfill is OK, as long as they put in methane extractors, and use the energy.
One lives in hope.
Bob the Boat.

Answer 2

This clearly depends where you live as not every where charges households for the weight of rubbish in your bin.

Weight into landfill is measured in tonnes.

Answer 3

Once the material gets to th landfill it gets fully compacted, the landfill is one huge compactor, so charging by weight is the fair way to do it.

Go visit your local landfill and check out all the huge machinery that they use to compact and mix the material delivered and dumped there.

Answer 4

The weight DOES go into the landfill.
The operators of the landfill don't want it to get too heavy.

Answer 5

They make more money charging by weight. If they charged by volume, you could save alot of money by smashing your trash down.

Answer 6

It all gets crushed and filled in so no it should go by weight, but who on earth is weighing your bin??

Answer 7

No, cos the rich bloke would get a compactor and the poor people wouldn't.