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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
200,000: The number of people in southern Australia who were left without power, as the grid struggled with surging demand during a brutal heatwave.
218: The number of third-party claims made against Bus Éireann over incidents involving vehicles used for the School Transport Scheme between 2011 and 2017.
2: The number of endangered Amur tiger cubs who are now ready for visitors this weekend.
13 tonnes: The amount of illegal waste dumped in the Wicklow/Dublin uplands in the first three weeks of this year.
1,000: The additional number of staff that Facebook is to hire in Ireland this year, bringing its total workforce in the country to 5,000 employees.
535: The number of feedback emails that RTÉ received in relation to a Prime Time programme about transgender issues which aired during the week.
10: The number of Oscar nominations received by The Favourite, the period film co-produced by Irish company Element Pictures.
11,000: The litres of alcohol seized by Revenue officers at Dublin Port.
2: The number of statues of iconic Dubliners singer Luke Kelly that will be unveiled next week to mark the 35th anniversary of his death.
35: The number of years it has been since the Liffey ferry service was decommissioned. Following restoration efforts, the ferry service will now taxi passengers between three points in Dublin’s Docklands.
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The privatisation of waste collection is biting hard it seems. It also getting harder and harder to find a public bin to dispose of the odd choc ice wrapper.
@Padraig Grimes: The privatization of any essential services are have been proved to be an absolute disaster. To many greedy people draining the finances to line their own pockets, with bonuses, expenses ect ect ect.
@Colette Kearns: you said it, just look at England.
@Padraig Grimes: the problem is the dirty Irish. In particular the durty dubs.
Well those who dumped in the mountains were hardly looking for bins.
@Mary King: no, and I’m not defending public dumping, but just maybe they can’t afford a private bin collection.
@Padraig Grimes: to be fair there are alot of people pleading poverty who have no problem working out for TV subscriptions and pizza.
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I lived in Australia for a number of years. They did not privatise the bins. Its is paid for through their house tax (rates). One a year the council do a large items collection, they give your neighbourhood a weeks notice and you leave all your large rubbish out (beds, furniture etc) and its taken…… This results in zero dumpling, until we so the same dumpling will continue. Id rather pay the government 400 euro a year for this service than a private bin company.
@George Weener: this is Ireland, we get no service for the family home tax.
@George Weener: but I like dumplings!
Block the scenic roads with a metal barrier like Coilte
Pay for a tag to let you through and it is then recorded
Goodnight to the major dumpers
@Quentin Moriarty: like the tag for the toll. Who is passing through there to view the scenery at night when most fly tipping happens ?
Revenue from the tags is ring fences to maintain the area
@Quentin Moriarty:
That’s way too logic. How dare you.
Waste being dumped on one hand, litter bins being removed by council’s on the other, spotted two very ignorant car drivers throwing their cigarettes out the windows, needless to say they weren’t too enthusiastic when I gave them my middle finger as I passed them in traffic in the city link road in traffic on my motorcycle yesterday.
@Charles Coughlan: well done for confronting them. Perhaps an open paper bag of butts thrown in would help them understand
Disgusting behaviour. Why on earth isnt domestic refuse collection incorporated into LPT? Why does every byway, village and estate have multiple companies collecting waste on different days, spewing out multiples of the CO2 that should be (more carbon tax anyone? says our wise government) and snarling up traffic? Why am i paying through the nose for all this when everyone should be paying their fair share and designated geographical areas should be efficently allocated to different waste collection companies with the savings passed on?….the answer has just come to me, its Ireland and the lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
@daniel casey: Been preaching exactly this formula for years, but no one in the ivory towers seem bothered. The refuse truck crews can identify the households & business premises that don’t have an approved bin service, but no one in authority canvasses that mine of information. Plus, the licensed companies, most of which are slicing their revenues off shore tax exempt, are only interested in subscribers with bank accounts to direct debit, or who are diligent in the prepayment top up system.
And as for the residual public space refuse service, it is also an uncoordinated shambles, very poorly managed, with vans & personnel buzzing hither & thither, never full, & never to be seen for weeks, or any afternoons.
Autumn leaves still mushed on paths & in drains late January throughout Dublin!
Littering in the mountains and countryside is epidemic. And it’s not being done by those who ‘can’t pay’ for bin services – just by those who are too greedy to pay.
Bin services were originally paid for through taxes, and they should be again. The cost of remediation must be huge under the current regime…
If there was anything more than lip service being paid to the disgusting fly tipping epidemic, domestic refuse charges would be part of LPT. The current system is ridiculous and incentivises illegal dumping. We’re going to be taxed to the hilt for carbon in a few years and yet every estate and byway in the land has two or three different companies carrying out refuse collections, each spewing out CO2 and holding up traffic. Who is responsible for this crazy system? Government get your act together, get the cheaters paying through LPT, allocate designated geographical areas to different waste collection companies and pass on the savings to consumers. Oh, i almost forgot….this is Ireland, the inbeciles in charge will never let that happen.
Only Dirt Bags that would do that..
Local Authorities made a small fortune when they privatized the Bin collection services. Please let us know what they did with the millions of euros that they received.
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All used electrical appliances can be returned to electrical shops for free under the Wee scheme and are also taken in by County councils for free .
But some dump it and adds thousands of euro to the clean up bill .
Agreed with the idea to improve the garbage recollection system.
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