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Paul
Guest
The problem:
There are 12 townhouses (all tenanted) on a single block of dirt. Their 12
garbage bins are in a single masonry enclosure about 2 x 3 metres with a 1.2
metre wide entry. There used to be a couple of recycling bins, but they are
now gone. The problem is that the tenants are in the lower social economic
bandwidth and some do not take their bins out (possibly because they are
having a layover somewhere else or just forgetful or just don't care), the
other problem is that some never bring in their bins which causes complaints
to the council who write to the tenant and if the bin is not brought in they
come around and impound the bin until a fee is paid at which time they
return the bin. Do you think they pay a fee? No. Less bins, means using
someone else's, and rubbish piles up in the enclosure when all the bins are
full.
Also, there will be built soon, across the front boundary, security fencing,
security entry gate (vehicle) and entry gate (pedestrian) and intercom
system.
My solution: Thinking electronically, I wonder if an RFID system would work
here in conjunction with the proposed intercom system. Maybe it would beep
(repetitively) the intercom until their bin was taken out and then beep them
until the bin was returned.
I am sorry to any would be inventors out there that were thinking along
these lines and were ready to lodge their patent application. Now that this
is in the public arena it's too late
Further on: We actually have had all the 240 litre bins replaced with a
single 760 litre bin that was picked up twice a week. However the capacity
is less than the 12 x 240 litre bins that were there before on a weekly
pickup. This meant that overflow rubbish was also piling up in the enclosure
due to lack of capacity. I would like to see the return to the 12 bins due
to the problem with the garbage truck getting access after the security
gates are installed and also dealing with the excess garbage problem.
So I am wondering if any system is around or would this idea work.
Thanks for any thoughts,
Paul.
There are 12 townhouses (all tenanted) on a single block of dirt. Their 12
garbage bins are in a single masonry enclosure about 2 x 3 metres with a 1.2
metre wide entry. There used to be a couple of recycling bins, but they are
now gone. The problem is that the tenants are in the lower social economic
bandwidth and some do not take their bins out (possibly because they are
having a layover somewhere else or just forgetful or just don't care), the
other problem is that some never bring in their bins which causes complaints
to the council who write to the tenant and if the bin is not brought in they
come around and impound the bin until a fee is paid at which time they
return the bin. Do you think they pay a fee? No. Less bins, means using
someone else's, and rubbish piles up in the enclosure when all the bins are
full.
Also, there will be built soon, across the front boundary, security fencing,
security entry gate (vehicle) and entry gate (pedestrian) and intercom
system.
My solution: Thinking electronically, I wonder if an RFID system would work
here in conjunction with the proposed intercom system. Maybe it would beep
(repetitively) the intercom until their bin was taken out and then beep them
until the bin was returned.
I am sorry to any would be inventors out there that were thinking along
these lines and were ready to lodge their patent application. Now that this
is in the public arena it's too late
Further on: We actually have had all the 240 litre bins replaced with a
single 760 litre bin that was picked up twice a week. However the capacity
is less than the 12 x 240 litre bins that were there before on a weekly
pickup. This meant that overflow rubbish was also piling up in the enclosure
due to lack of capacity. I would like to see the return to the 12 bins due
to the problem with the garbage truck getting access after the security
gates are installed and also dealing with the excess garbage problem.
So I am wondering if any system is around or would this idea work.
Thanks for any thoughts,
Paul.