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In <NEWTNews.818583583.28906.heath@heath.iinet.net.au>
   jim heath <heath@iinet.net.au> writes:

>Even if we happen to produce more
>than average, your scheme seems too
>crude to me. To be fair, weightometers
>should be fitted to the grabber arms
>of the truck that hoists and empties
>the wheelie bins. A laser could scan
>a bar code on the wheelie to identify
>its owner. Then everyone could be billed
>in exact proportion to rubbish weight.

Bar-codes? Too easy to forge!

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.

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) weigh next to nothing but consume an immense
volume.  Some sort of volumetric measurement should therefore also be
incorporated - either directly in the bin (difficult with the lid shut)
or in the truck for each load picked up.

Landfill "management" of disposal probably has a higher sensitivity
to the volume than the mass.
-- 
Bernd Felsche {speaking for himself}
MetaPro Systems Pty Ltd, 130 Fauntleroy Avenue,
Redcliffe, Western Australia 6104
Phone: +61 9 479 3722    Fax: +61 9 479 3720