Pay As You Throw for 67% of the population

1. Only prepaid costly bags for garbage. Okay…
2. Multistorey building with accessible from the street garbage boxes. It is. Already.
3. Someone from other building passing by and putting garbage in the wrong bag.
4. Garbage in the wrong bag is not picked up
5. A month later there is pile of month old garbage getting bigger and bigger, spilling on the street.

Prove me wrong, or new scheme is a disaster.

by amarao_san

8 comments

  1. I agree and I’ve been saying the same for about 2 years now

    Thanks for sharing

  2. People will just start collecting waste to burn for heating. This is exactly what happened with such schemes in a number of European nations who tried to implement exactly such a system.

    You need to BAN the materials which are causing the biggest offense; no more plastic bags. Zero. Anywhere. No more plastic packaging.

    When I compare my trash here to my trash in the US, it’s insane.

  3. 3eur per bag? Are they insane, wtf?

    But we will stillpay for garbage collection, yes?

    So, they just hate people or what?

  4. Clearly this is a “garbage” initiative. What I still didn’t figure out is how cleptocrats will make money off it.

  5. > Preliminary pricing based on the Aradippou Municipality study suggests a charge of 6 cents per litre for waste bags, translating to 60 cents for a 10-litre bag, 2 euros for a 35-litre bag, and 3.33 euros for a 56-litre bag.

    Oh look a money gouging scheme, shock. Based on this pricing, [this](https://www.alphamega.com.cy/en/groceries/household/household-essentials-food-storage/garbage-bags/mr-bin-scented-bags-for-garbage-bin-black-75×80-cm-56-l-20-pieces) roll of bin bags is going to cost €66.60, not €2.79.

    And then they want to levy a fee on-top for everyone?

    There is going to be so much rubbish everywhere.

  6. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the same system that has been ongoing in Aglangia for the last 2-3 years or so?

    If so, the new bags are available to buy in most stores in the area, and they are more costly because there will be no annual garbage collection fee. This is supposed to incentivize throwing more of the recyclable garbage in the recycling bins so that the expensive purple bags don’t fill up too soon.

    Also shared street bins have locks on them to prevent random people from throwing garbage or wrong bags in it. Every resident of a building will get a key to be able to unlock it.

    >A month later there is pile of month old garbage getting bigger and bigger, spilling on the street.

    This occasionally occurs, yes. Where I live in Aglangia things are actually pretty well-kempt, and most people I interact with don’t seem to have major issues with garbage in the streets either. I’d go as far as to say the overall project has improved things compared to before (ever so slightly).

    Maybe in other municipalities it might turn out differently, but there’s definitely a precedent here.

  8. Thankfully I don’t see my municipality listed there as I think it’s again one of those typical Cypriot ideas of getting something that might have some merit however implement it in the most stupid way. 3 euros for 60L black bin bag? Fuck off… So I guess we’ll need to get into our garbage bins and step on everything to compress it to as little of a size as possible to save some space?

    Also can we stop pretending that recycling plastics ACTUALLY recycles them? Glass? Sure.. Paper? Sure.. Metal? Sure… However nearly all plastics are not able to be recyclable no matter how many triangular arrow things they have so lets stop this farce…

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