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bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) wrote:
>Bar-codes? Too easy to forge!

how do you forget a barcode, it is just a number or set of 
letters, which could be the street address

My bin has a very good memory, I can open the lid and my bin 
reminds me of some of the rubbish I threw away weeks ago :)

>
>I believe that you can get chips embedded in the bin, which is then
>read by the grabber using a weak radio signal. This system has been
>successfully trialed and is now probably in use in some areas of Europe.
>
>The chip costs less than $1, which is almost insignificant compared
>to the cost of the bin itself, and the total cost of managing refuse.
>
Being a pesimist - does Metapro produce such a system ??

>One factor that won't be managed by weighing, is the volume of
>rubbish... lots of large empty plastic bottles (the stuff that should
>be recycled anyway)

due to the "everything must be cost justified" philosophy our 
council has stopped recycling plastic bottles, the return is 
not big enough !!

>Landfill "management" of disposal probably has a higher sensitivity
>to the volume than the mass.

I disagree - if the masses stopped throwing away recycleable 
items, less landfill sites wouls be nedded (sorry, could not 
resist it)  :)

Harry