Would these Japanese nets work in Dublin for rubbish?

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  1. Was coming through Blessington Street this morning at 6 and I was actually so shocked by the rubbish everywhere, I’ve never seen it so bad in the city centre.

    Do you think a product like this could help? Or are our seagulls/people built different?

  2. Shared dumpster and re-nationalised/municipalised(?) rubbish collection is the only way to fix this really.

    DCC have this beta program where they try to experiment with solutions to problems like this (you might’ve seen the bag bin trial around town at some point?) I’m all for innovation, but imo they’re overcomplicated technological attempts to engineer a solution to an ownership/adminstrative problem, to which we already have solutions to from other countries.

    Greece, Spain and probably many many others have municipal bins that take up about the space of a car on almost every corner and people drop their domestic and street rubbish into these. No mess, no papers strewn everywhere or bags torn apart by vermin. Not complicated. But here we are reinventing the wheel because some Fianna fail or god help us a Progressive Democrat councillor made a quick buck in the 90s selling off the licence for next to no public benefit.

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