Microchips In Dustbins Spy On Three Million (UK)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-24-2007 | Brendan Carlin

[arasina]

Bustbins, eh? A place for discarded breast implants?

[farmer18th]

I don’t think even Monty Python could do this justice.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Bruscar!!!

[glorgau]

This is one thing that would get “accidently broken” real quick.

[supercat]

Bustbins, eh? A place for discarded breast implants?

Sounds like one of the assorted recycling containers Penn & Teller foisted upon people.

[Grizzled Bear]

Wow! Tell me again why we don’t want to be more European?

[Calpernia]

From animal tagging to garbage tagging.

[Oztrich Boy]

The system could eventually be used to charge households for the amount of non-recyclable waste they produce, which currently has to be buried in landfill sites.

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In a statement to MPs today David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, will unveil a broad national waste strategy to bring a "collective effort" to recycle more and dump less.

Certainly sounds like a way to get more rubbish put into the "recyclable bins"

[Publius6961]

I see a brisk business in chip zappers...
Chip? What chip? There's a chip in those things?

I'll be gobsmacked!

[chuckles]

They’ll just do what they do in East Texas now. When they started charging to throw away refers and Air Conditioners because of the Freon, we now have them scattered on each and every dirt road around here. Tires and Batteries now cost to recycle, we now have those on top of the freezers. Some day they will get smart and pay for the freezers aluminum, with or without freon and they will miraculously disappear from the landscape.

[theBuckwheat]

I suppose the enviros are taking into account the waste and environmental costs they caused by forcing people to trash perfectly good, but now unapproved, bins.

[theBuckwheat]

Some years ago, my chest freezer needed some freon so I called around. Not worth it, I was told. Better just replace it. So I did. Hey enviros: Your laws stink! You worry about a few ounces of freon and don’t seem to care about the cost to the environment caused by trashing a perfectly repairable freezer and having to replace it with a brand new one.

What morons. They better feel good about passing that law, because feelings are all we are going to get from it.

[Jack Hammer]

Big Nanny is watching you.

In Merry Olde England, mugging, murder, and rape are fine - but tossing a glass bottle in the aluminum can bin is dealt with severely.

George Orwell doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he spins in his grave.

[Malacoda]

Indeed. I’m thinking that if we hooked up some sort of generator to Thomas Jefferson, most of the Founding Fathers, Orwell and Huxley — we might produce enough electricity to power is into the next millenium.

[Eepsy]

And we all know what comes of putting microchips in dustbins...

[UKrepublican]

It gives people an opportunity to save money. Fit one to my bin I don’t care.

People have electricity and gas meters for a reason.

[Jack Hammer]

“People have electricity and gas meters for a reason.”

Yes, they do: to assess use of commodities actively consumed, not to monitor transgressions of Nanny State priorities.

[MaxMax]

Placing rocks in the bottom of the neighbors Bin could be fun.

[Kozak]

Took a broken microwave to the dump with a load of stuff ( I’m moving). Had to pay a special “appliance fee” to get rid of it. Asked if it had been a broken radio if the fee would apply, “why no, of course not”. Pointed out to the county employee that a microwave IS basically a radio....