Transparent recycling bins?

[davidc4430]

Transparent recycling bins would make residents 'face their waste', former Greens senator says

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-20/transparent-recycling-bins-proposed-for-adelaide-council-area...

if it comes here i'll just paint my bin

[lyndal1838]

I think you will find that is illegal David......but there is nothing stopping you using a recyclable bin liner in it.

[ecar3483]

Think of the opportunities...

"Help me, I'm trapped in the bin" written backwards, on the inside of the bin...

"Novelty" stickers such as aquarium fish and plants...

Or my personal favourite - Short horizontal lines at set intervals... 100 mL... 200 mL... and of course, excusing the pun, for good measure, lines for the number of Cups, up to the Pint mark and beyond...

And coloured blinking Christmas lights would also add to the cheer, but you'd have to take them out on bin day... ha ha...

See through rubbish bins? Let the fun begin! ha ha...

🙂

[zanadoo_56]

I think they are a golden opportunity for graffiti artists.

It's probably the one time vandalism might be appreciated by the residents.

[chameleon54]

I heard this segment on the ABC radio this morning and thought it was a wind up, but no......The Greens are serious about this. Just another crack-pot idea dreamed up by some Greens senator who's smoked too much pot.

[lyhargr_0]

I cant really see what the prob is, if you are using it properly, there wouldn't be much to see in mine

[lyndal1838]

I have a lot more in my recycling bin than my garbage bin.

They are ugly enough without all the contents in full view of everybody.

[myoclon1cjerk]

"Just another crack-pot idea dreamed up by some Greens senator who's smoked too much pot"

Actually it isn't. It's the brainchild of Jindarie Regional Council, one of W.A's largest waste management services.

[springyzone]

Well, well, haven't things gone full circle.

Now we have councils trying to shame people for recycling!

We have 2 recycle bins and council is telling us we will have to pay an extra premium for one of them.

If recycle bins are full, then they are full of something, and that is usually stuff like bottles, jars and cardboard wrapping.

I agree with Lyndal and the bins are ugly enough without everyone having to see the contents. I actually think it is also an invasion of privacy.

Then councils wonder why there is so much illegal dumping of rubbish!

So we consumers, who are at the very end of the production line, are being told not to make rubbish, to face up to our evil amount of recycling, not to dump rubbish anywhere. And they don't like us burning it.

But at the same time, the government would have a fit if we stopped buying things and let's face it, almost everything you buy in supermarkets is wrapped in something.

[davidc4430]

my biggest problem with the recycle bin is all the stuff your told not to put in it that i think should be put in it.

like styrene foam packing and plastic bags

when you read the ins and outs its rediculous