Or take your rubbish with you and stop being manky.
I don’t think these are actually a great solution for urban litter bins generally. You don’t want a few (big) bins around town if you’re trying to stop casual littering, you want lots of (small) ones, so that people have to exert less effort to do the right thing.
That said, in busier areas it may be suitable. It would also potentially be a good idea for domestic waste disposal, especially in places like the centre of Dublin where they still often just use bags instead of wheely bins. That is disgusting, they block paths, and they themselves lead to litter from bags breaking and birds picking them open.
Naa we’re happy enough to go without bins or public toilets in our cities.
Nothing quite beats the feeling of tripping over a bag of nappies and falling in to a puddle of some drunkards slightly warm piss.
Can it be my turn to post this next week?
Bit too modern for our country
These aren’t litter bins. These are for Germany’s intricate recycling scheme. It’s very hard to find actual litter bins in Germany.
Sorry just to much work look…IT BE GRAND
I saw a documentary a few years back about the ones in the Netherlands looks similar and agreed they should be implemented in most cities
We could do this or we could go with the green party plan of mass CCTV rollout and drones to catch and prosecute litterers instead.
Very few people in Ireland take their personal waste management seriously, they would not be willing to put in all the effort that continental Europeans do.
But what if these underground bins got in the way of our underground…? Oh
I still think one of the biggest barriers to people living in towns (over shops etc) is the ubiquitous mandatory fucking wheelie bin.
Firstly you’d have to drag it down the stairs or through the house, then leave it on the street, then (because you can’t block the street) take the day off work so you can bring it back through the house or up the stairs as soon as the bin man is gone.
I’ve seen people living in flats in Holland use those bins instead. They make the city livable.
Visit Camden street any night, the scruffy little tramps dump all their litter on the street, and sit amongst it.
While the bins remain empty.
I’d hate to see their homes.
Waste of money until litter scum learn how to use a bin
But if you had these, how would you be able to privatise bin collection? It’s extremely important that useless middlemen are able to extract profit from the provision of basic public services.
They look fairly bomb proof too, which seems to be the excuse since 911 for feck all bins.
I know so much terrorism going on.
Like others said these are for apartment blocks and houses in the Netherlands and Germany (where I’ve seen them) but when something gets caught in them it’s shit, bin won’t open and have to wait for the council to some fix it.
Can only imagine how long it would take a local council to come fix it.
The solution to littering is to smack people who litter in the head until they stop doing that. The culture of eating and drinking like pigs every 5 seconds while walking and pretending there’s always a bin around is fucking terrible and it’s not why cities were made.
We have these bins in Buenos Aires.
They don’t help. If people are dirty assholes they’ll find a way to be dirty assholes anyway.
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Are these the Dutch ones?
Or take your rubbish with you and stop being manky.
I don’t think these are actually a great solution for urban litter bins generally. You don’t want a few (big) bins around town if you’re trying to stop casual littering, you want lots of (small) ones, so that people have to exert less effort to do the right thing.
That said, in busier areas it may be suitable. It would also potentially be a good idea for domestic waste disposal, especially in places like the centre of Dublin where they still often just use bags instead of wheely bins. That is disgusting, they block paths, and they themselves lead to litter from bags breaking and birds picking them open.
Naa we’re happy enough to go without bins or public toilets in our cities.
Nothing quite beats the feeling of tripping over a bag of nappies and falling in to a puddle of some drunkards slightly warm piss.
Can it be my turn to post this next week?
Bit too modern for our country
These aren’t litter bins. These are for Germany’s intricate recycling scheme. It’s very hard to find actual litter bins in Germany.
Sorry just to much work look…IT BE GRAND
I saw a documentary a few years back about the ones in the Netherlands looks similar and agreed they should be implemented in most cities
We could do this or we could go with the green party plan of mass CCTV rollout and drones to catch and prosecute litterers instead.
Very few people in Ireland take their personal waste management seriously, they would not be willing to put in all the effort that continental Europeans do.
But what if these underground bins got in the way of our underground…? Oh
I still think one of the biggest barriers to people living in towns (over shops etc) is the ubiquitous mandatory fucking wheelie bin.
Firstly you’d have to drag it down the stairs or through the house, then leave it on the street, then (because you can’t block the street) take the day off work so you can bring it back through the house or up the stairs as soon as the bin man is gone.
I’ve seen people living in flats in Holland use those bins instead. They make the city livable.
Visit Camden street any night, the scruffy little tramps dump all their litter on the street, and sit amongst it.
While the bins remain empty.
I’d hate to see their homes.
Waste of money until litter scum learn how to use a bin
But if you had these, how would you be able to privatise bin collection? It’s extremely important that useless middlemen are able to extract profit from the provision of basic public services.
They look fairly bomb proof too, which seems to be the excuse since 911 for feck all bins.
I know so much terrorism going on.
Like others said these are for apartment blocks and houses in the Netherlands and Germany (where I’ve seen them) but when something gets caught in them it’s shit, bin won’t open and have to wait for the council to some fix it.
Can only imagine how long it would take a local council to come fix it.
As far as I know [Dublin City Council wanted to trial them in a city centre residential area that rhymes with Moanybatter](https://dublininquirer.com/2020/05/06/a-look-at-plans-so-far-for-shared-bins-on-dublin-s-streets) but two or three concerned locals shut it down because where on earth would they park?!?
[Here’s the trial page, for those interested.](http://dccbeta.ie/project/article/Shared-Bins)
The solution to littering is to smack people who litter in the head until they stop doing that. The culture of eating and drinking like pigs every 5 seconds while walking and pretending there’s always a bin around is fucking terrible and it’s not why cities were made.
We have these bins in Buenos Aires.
They don’t help. If people are dirty assholes they’ll find a way to be dirty assholes anyway.
Did anybody ever see that video of the kid who fell into one?
https://youtu.be/8zQP2vycQkg
We had these in Castlebar for recycling. Mayo CoCo have decided to remove them…
More bins aren’t going to stop people who litter. Its an education problem.
Or we could just hire extra council workers and install CCTV to prevent problem dumpers.
We get 10 and it would go 13 billion over budget.
Yed get a queue of travelers waiting to “fall” in the hole…compo…