Lets hope the UK don't cotton on to this idea:- (1 Viewer)

[jongood]

How about this on the Aire at Jard Sur Mer? I've never seen one before.

 

[LesW]

What is it?

 

[ivorantony]

Looks like a payable bin to dispose of rubbish, Won’t happen here they will continue to dump down the lanes,

 

[Widge]

We have had similar bins installed, under the normal annual fee we are allowed 26 30ltr bags of general waste, or we get charged, per bag over that, but they have also changed the recycling, we can now put 100% of anything that resembles paper, metal or plastic wrapping or contaners in the recycling bin, (glass has a seperate bin).

I think they realised too much recyclable stuff was going in the general waste, becouse people either couldn't be bothered or were confused what was and what wasn't recyclable, also too much non-recycle was going in the recycling for the same reason, and they were having to sort it anyway, so now they accept all potential recycling, but restrict how much general waste you are allowed.

For us we throw out about 1/2 a 30ltr bag about every three weeks, the rest goes in the recycling or compost.

But we have very little fish or meat waste!

Oh I forgot to add, all our bins have a small hatch for free disposal, to try and avoid general littering

 

[jongood]

Pay Your Waste

payyourwaste.com

€2/bag. Tbf it does make you question what you have in the general waste that could be recycled.

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[MichaelT]

I think that's for the locals if it's the aire overlooking the beach we stayed on. Get a card from council to let them dump rubbish.

 

[bigtwin]

They pay you to recycle! What a great idea.

Ian

 

[jongood]

I think that's for the locals if it's the aire overlooking the beach we stayed on. Get a card from council to let them dump rubbish.

There doesn't appear to be another general waste bin.

Not a big problem as long as its doesn't become widespread, especially over here with our money grabbing councils

 

[jongood]

We've been here for 2 mornings so far and both days have been like this but different bags. No they're not ours btw.

 

[Jim]

On a free Aire you can understand the need for a charge. I pay £40 a week to have the rubbish of a max of 5 campers taken away.

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[The Wino]

On a free Aire you can understand the need for a charge. I pay £40 a week to have the rubbish of a max of 5 campers taken away.

I don't think a lot of people realise that businesses pay for waste disposal including recycling the same as they don't realise businesses pay for banking particularly banking cash

 

[Emmit]

They have an App and QR code (get me, talking as if I know what I'm on about!)
in the Dordogne.
Bit of a faff but we managed.

 

[jongood]

On a free Aire you can understand the need for a charge. I pay £40 a week to have the rubbish of a max of 5 campers taken away.

No I wouldnt expect anything on a free aire but this is a pay aire €11.32/night, and these are public bins. cycling around yesterday all the public bins are the same. I'm there with the recycling but not convinced this is practical as it will encourage flytipping, especially with people coming off the beach.

To put the aire costs in persepective - Les Sables privately run aire has parking, 6kw electricity , water and a full range of bins for €8.50 pn

 

[jongood]

the same as they don't realise businesses pay for banking particularly banking cash

I think thats a whole different argument these days.

 

[Ridgeway]

It‘s a simple mechanism really, if you‘re lazy then you throw everything away but you pay, if you recycle then you pay less. Here our 30ltr regular household disposal bags are around £2.50 each, with a family of 5 we manage with 1 per month, the rest is recycled - it‘s a good motivation

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[Quackers]

We constantly find that some motorhome owners are not good at recycling, we always ask visitors arriving at our gate to only use the bins if they recycle. However our general waste bin is always full of beer cans and plastics, but the worst culprit are dog owners. If dog owners must use tins, why cant they be swilled out and flattened and then put into the correct bin? We are seriously considering adopting a take your rubbish home attitude. We are a small 5 van CL site and it is quite upsetting when a motorhome rocks up and produces bag after bag of rubbish from their garage leaving our bins full of unsorted waste.

I am sure Jim could also mention a few items left discarded by the bins. We have even had someone do an oil change and left us the contents.

 

[jongood]

It‘s a simple mechanism really, if you‘re lazy then you throw everything away but you pay, if you recycle then you pay less. Here our 30ltr regular household disposal bags are around £2.50 each, with a family of 5 we manage with 1 per month, the rest is recycled - it‘s a good motivation

Its easy to see it being useful in a home situation but in a public bin? There would be even more McDonald's wrappers on the roads in uk.

 

[Widge]

These are our bins, they take 30ltr bags, and the stainless steel square to the right is a flap to put small amounts of rubbish foc, which is fine for ice-cream wrappers etc.

 

[Bucket]

In our tours this year, mainly France, Germany and Spain, we have noticed a real reduction in available waste AND recycling bins, especially in Germany.
While I get it that each country is trying to recycle more and reduce landfill it seems like a slippery path as you do end up disposing inapproriatly after carrying your rubbish for 100's of miles.
And don't get me started on the deposit systems, by the time you have worked out where and how to get the 25c back you have already left the country!

 

[Manic]

We saw a lot more of these ‘locked ‘ bins on our trip in France a few months ago, so keep rubbish with use until we find an open one.
You could imagine the state uk would be in if we had these, it’s bad enough as it is.

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[Barryh]

I am sure @Jim could also mention a few items left discarded by the bins. We have even had someone do an oil change and left us the contents.

Despite signs politely asking our guests not to leave large items at the bins as we had no method of disposal we found either a lot of guests couldn’t read or couldn’t care less. We had tellys, microwaves, fridges, big batteries, proper mattresses, satellite dishes, tyres, bikes, oil and every item of camping equipment you can think of. And then those who congratulated us on our recycling who then left tons of recycling stuff they had toted round various sites to be left with us to pay to dispose of.

 

[jongood]

I'm in a different aire now, with another pay bin outside and yes there's another couple of bags dumped by the side of it. Its a good job the French authorities control the seagulls because in uk the contents would be all over the place.

 

[Emmit]

No I wouldnt expect anything on a free aire but this is a pay aire €11.32/night, and these are public bins. cycling around yesterday all the public bins are the same. I'm there with the recycling but not convinced this is practical as it will encourage flytipping, especially with people coming off the beach.

To put the aire costs in persepective - Les Sables privately run aire has parking, 6kw electricity , water and a full range of bins for €8.50 pn

 

[gus-lopez]

How about this on the Aire at Jard Sur Mer? I've never seen one before.



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Friends In france have to pay 200€/year for a card that allows them to access general waste and recycling bins for the household rubbish.
No card ,the bins can't be opened.

 

[Widge]

Friends In france have to pay 200€/year for a card that allows them to access general waste and recycling bins for the household rubbish.
No card ,the bins can't be opened.

I don't know about your friends, but here it is only the general waste that has a lock on it, we have a keyring with a chip in it, anyone can access the recycle bins.

As far as price, that is about right, I literally have just paid January to end of June 92.50€, but that not only covers the general waste, but also the recycling and the local tip

I took a large trailer load of stuff there a couple of weeks ago after clearing out a garage full of junk no problem at all.

The trailer had old scrap metal, bits of plasterboard, various ther bits of builders waste and some glass panels from an old shower cubical, although since the new household waste bins they do want to check inside black bags, in case you are dumping general household waste.

One thing that is a bit annoying is that my nearest bin is about 3km away, but this is becouse we live in a small hamlet 3km from the nearest main road, we always had to do that for recycling, but we used to have a big wheelly bin in the hamlet for general waste, but the trucks that empty the new bins can't get up the smaller roads, a bit of a pain, but nobody has particularly moaned about it.

I can't imagine the riots that would happen in the uk if you couldn't get waste picked up at your house.

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[Ridgeway]

I don't know about your friends, but here it is only the general waste that has a lock on it, we have a keyring with a chip in it, anyone can access the recycle bins.

As far as price, that is about right, I literally have just paid January to end of June 92.50€, but that not only covers the general waste, but also the recycling and the local tip

I took a large trailer load of stuff there a couple of weeks ago after clearing out a garage full of junk no problem at all.

The trailer had old scrap metal, bits of plasterboard, various ther bits of builders waste and some glass panels from an old shower cubical, although since the new household waste bins they do want to check inside black bags, in case you are dumping general household waste.

One thing that is a bit annoying is that my nearest bin is about 3km away, but this is becouse we live in a small hamlet 3km from the nearest main road, we always had to do that for recycling, but we used to have a big wheelly bin in the hamlet for general waste, but the trucks that empty the new bins can't get up the smaller roads, a bit of a pain, but nobody has particularly moaned about it.

I can't imagine the riots that would happen in the uk if you couldn't get waste picked up at your house.

Here the same where there are newly built houses. Your chip opens the bin and it’s weighed as it goes in, then you pay a tax at the end of the year based on what you’ve used.

 

[Widge]

Here the same where there are newly built houses. Your chip opens the bin and it’s weighed as it goes in, then you pay a tax at the end of the year based on what you’ve used.

Here we pay a fixed amount that includes the disposal of 26 30ltr bags, you can put more in, but you will get charged per bag for the excess, nothing mentioned about weight as far as I am aware.

 

[Shrimp]

On our last jaunt around France, couple of months back, we found the bins locked and only useable for locals.
We ended up toting our bag of rubbish until we could find an open bin.

 

[jongood]

Busy night last night. Its obviously a new scheme, doesn't seem to be working

 

[Lenny HB]

We came back from Germany last October with 2 bags of recycling in the Motorhome garage. Nearly everywhere was just glass recycling and occasionally paper.

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