Spot on.

The councils tried to run their on bin service, remember? Remember what happened them? They were scrapped because they were a massive financial hole in the council’s budgets.

Either:
A – Private company takes the contract and charges enough to cover costs and make themselves a profit, as all companies should
or
B – Councils run it, the costs of running it detract from other projects and the losses made are put onto the ever growing tax payers bill.

I’ll take A, thanks.

Council services which were paid for out of general tax, i.e. overwhelming PAYE, were scrapped on the pretext of efficiency. The real reason was to facilitate privatisation, by delivering captive markets to business interests. Soft, soft money.

Now we are seeing monopolistic price hikes, and the privatisation apologists here still have the gall to call it efficiency.

And, according to the polls, dumbass Irish voters want more of the same. If we don’t learn, what’s happened with waste will happen next with water.

Greenstar have notified customers of the same. nThis is a government levy. nNow you know who to point the finger at.

@wolfgang if a private company can provide the service and make a profit surely the council can do it for less and break even? It needn’t be a hole in council’s budget.

Thinking that a private company providing a service in a free market with competition will always provide that service for as low a price as possible is simply incorrect, its not what happens.

What happens is that they will charge as much as the market will bear. That’s basic economics. And if the local councils give them an effective monopoly on a service you can’t realistically opt out of, well, they’re going to make the market bear an awful lot. A 16% hike is only the beginning…

….and it’s exactly this that every bin tax protestor was saying while everyone else said they were being stupid.

They increased it from €30 to €50 per ton in September, from €50 to €65 this month and it’s going up to €75 per ton in July 2013. Do they really expect businesses to absorb this cost?

The increase is an EU mandate so for once are elected idiots aren’t responsible it’s the unelected green EU mafias fault .

Probably has something to do with the fact that a lot of people dump their general waste in their recycling bins. My neighbours on both sides do that (animals). I’m sure the waste companies are just sick of it and unfortunately everyone else suffers. We actually don’t pay for our recycle bins so that’s why people do that here. The companies should hire inspectors and issue fines for incorrect bin usage and refuse to take recycle bins from offenders until the fines are paid.

Get over yourself, I am an elected county councillor and I will continue to represent the people that elected me. Slagging off people anonymously is low.

Anonymously? I do not think it means what you think it means…

In response to Councillor McGuinness’s (FF) comment, my posting was clearly not anonymous. Rather than address the issue I raised, Councillor McGuinness chose to belittle my point, which is quite frankly unacceptable and alarming for a public representative. For the record, I am not a member of any particular party, but that I am a homeowner who is suffering as result of increased Greyhound charges.

You have to charge people for collecting their rubbish it’s the only way people will actually use the correct bins for correct rubbish.

If they are voted in again surely the majority are happy with their performance…you should accept it, it’s a thing called democracy.

How would u disband greyhound? They are entitled to charge what they want, it is an extra incentive to recycle more because lets be honest hardly anyone recycles 100% of their waste.

http://greyhoundrecycling.com/dcc/binandbagcharges.htm

From the 1st October

http://greyhound.ie/newpricing/index.htm

It’s people like you unfortunately that will actually do this or resort to illegal dumping. More problems created in the long run by increased charges. It’s only dawned on the Spanish government that free sun cream to all is cheaper than treating skin cancer at a later stage.

I think you should read some facts regarding burning your waste. The toxins produced by this activity can cause cancer. Because you burn at such a low temperature you are not destroying all the toxins which come from things like plastic. Burning your household waste is 100 times worse than incineration.

JP the article is referring to the fact that the price is going up due to LANDFILL charges, not incinerator charges. Do you really think putting our rubbish in the ground to rot is better??