I now bin share with my neighbour and it’s halved my bill.
I also compost and put as much into recycling as possible and add food scraps to my dogs dry food. You would be really surprised how little you can send to landfill by doing this and will save you money.

@Paul Mahon, you may have to take the brown bin but you don’t have to fill it. Unless your point is that you would just rather not have an extra bin to store.

I see by the comments here that a lot of people are unhappy by these increases. If you guys knew what I have been witnessing over the past 2 years with my old employer you would blow a gasket. I worked for a company that installs the machines that sorts all your rubbish out. I’ve installed machines in Oxigen,Thorntons,Panda to name a few as well as waste companies in London,Bristol,Rugby and Manchester. nOnce your waste is collected, it’s brought to a recycling centre where it’s tipped into a machine called a trommel that grades it into different sizes. From there it is sent by a series of conveyors through magnets that pick out all the steel(forks,old batteries,screws,etc) then after that through Eddy current machines that takes out your non-ferrous metal(aluminum,tin,ie. Coke cans etc) then on to a Pellenc machine which separates paper from plastic. This would be a pretty basic system and there are some huge far more state of the art systems out there but still provides a huge profit for the companies because each stage provides a bi-product that is sold on, steel(ferrous and non-ferrous) to metal dealers. The paper is shredded and can be sold to reusable paper manufacturers or sold to power plants or cement works(Lagan) the plastics are sold to plastic recycling companies. nExample: Powerday in London handles 10% of Londons waste creates £36,000 from one magnet every 2 weeks. nLess than a third of your waste actually goes to landfill , the rest is all sold on at huge profit. So really, your paying them over the odds to make more money and when ya think about it there is no real point having a black bag and recycling bag when they have the machines to sort it out anyway. Just saying.

It’s €10 for a Bin bag every 2nd week in Sligo here, and you have to buy your Green wheelie bin at about €80. No matter where you live, you have to pay!

@Paul Mallon, apologies for the misspelling of your surname in my last post… I understand your point and agree. They charge an annual flat rate for brown and green bin collections regardless of whether one puts either out at every collection day or twice a year. There should be an option when taking out the service.

I can’t understand these charges. I live in a rural part of Galway Co. we buy bins bags and leave them out for collection, landfill €5, paper €2.50 & plastic €2.50, we get away with one of each every two weeks. It’s a good service and fair price I think, but If these costs can cover rural areas in galway how could it not work in a densely populated area in Dublin?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there’s a business opportunity in small scale anaerobic digestion.

True Sean sorry, they are a private outfit, not aware of any councils operating rubbish collection in the more rural areas, or doing much at all tbh.

I don’t see the problem, TBH.

They’re a private company that needs to make a profit. The government increased the landfill fee by 30% – and Greyhound increase their fee by 16.6% to compensate. They’re still losing out.

Anyone who blames Greyhound for this is an idiot with no sense of basic economics.

Amazing, another charge being passed on to people who can ill afford it.

It’s still pretty cheap in comparison to some of the prices down the country. Time to suck it up Dublin and pay up!

The board of Greenstar say that they are disappointed that their banks have demanded payment of loaned money – sure that’s exactly how Greenstar treat their paying customers. Why should they expect the banks to treat them differently to the way they treat their customers ?

Don’t blame the Greyhound for this – blame the German Rottweiler

You will likely see an increase in street dumping as a result. Nobody can carry inflated bin charges from a greedy private company.

I do not use black bags so why do I have to pay the government levy