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Weigh residual and organic wastes, charge by weight, and add multiple recyclable streams

Weigh residual and organic wastes, charge by weight, and add multiple recyclable streams

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Local councils, mayors, federal and state environment departments and ministers
Note that using different bin sizes and rates for them, and just sorting waste in more centralized locations, may be more economically viable and with less complications.

There's a petition for that here:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/community_petitions/Local_councils_worldwide_Provide_more_bin_sizes_and_sort_more_waste_to_reduce_waste_to_landfill


See also this discussion here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/WarOnWasteAU/permalink/652769901843930/

Use a scale built into a garbage truck to measure the net weight of residual and organic waste bins (both 140 L by default, 240 L optionally at no extra fixed cost), which are collected weekly by default or optionally fortnightly. Note that residual waste may also be known as general waste, which is typically sent to landfill in Australia. Charge the rate payer on a per kg basis for this waste (e.g. 60 c/kg AUD and 20 c/kg, respectively), with an optional free service of 9 recyclable fractions in 100 L sacks, collected monthly or bimonthly. Fixed costs of equipment and collection would ideally be subsidized by federal or state funding and thus by taxes in order to deliver public benefits. However, where such subsidization is not provided, fixes fees, e.g. per pickup or per annum, may be necessary, but would increase the amount of residual waste if the price per kg is reduced. Such a scheme has been demonstrated successfully in Bjuv, Sweden, with similar weight-based pricing schemes in Denmark, Germany and Ireland. Other improvements include:
  • promoting reusable/washable and/or biodegradable products such as for nappies and dialysis sacs (with which the non-biodegradable and/or disposable and non-washable forms tend to produce a lot of waste and may be financially disadvantageous to users of these products);
  • Clean up any dumped waste, although it may not actually increase after a year, as was found in Bjuv in Sweden, coupled with monitoring e.g. via [CleanApp](https://cleanapp.io/) and fines;
  • Possibly use transparent bins to make incorrectly sorted waste more visible, and education such as stickers, flyers, and talking to people to reduce incorrectly sorted waste. Fines could be used as a last resort.
  • Locks for bins can be provided on request.
  • Mechanical locked gate systems or systems like the Identify, Press, Weight (IPW) Centre may be preferable for high-density apartments;
  • Using cryptographic, scalable, public database systems such as [Holochain](https://holochain.org/) would have benefits such as transparency, auditability, benefits of open data and open source software, and ease of scaling the software to more areas.

The effects of waste include methane emissions, resource depletion, toxicity impacts in land, water and air; and impacts on birds, aquatic life, and other biota.

For more information, please see:

https://iwr-wasteless.github.io/iwr/

However, the above page is intended more for councils, governments, waste management officers, and waste collectors; but feel free to read it if you have time! Then again, if you have objections, concerns, or questions, it is best to read the above page first.

Please sign this petition and share it with your friends, family, communities, groups, etc.!

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