People Before Profit Alliance (Dublin Central)

Privatisation and service cuts have led to bin collection fiasco says local election candidate

Residents right across the North Side of Dublin have notice a massive deterioration in the service for collection of recycling, both green bins and bags. These problems have developed since the lucrative contract was awarded to Greyhound Recycling which took over from Oxigen at the beginning of the year. Numerous collections have been missed, green bags have not been delivered, incorrect collection dates have been posted on the website and collection calendars have not been distributed.

Colm Stephens, People Before Profit candidate in the North Inner City in the upcoming local elections says that he has “been inundated with complaints from residents who are frustrated that they cannot recycle their green waste in the normal way. Without the green bags, for example, they cannot leave their waste for collection as Greyhound won’t collect recycling in black bags.” He himself has been promised green bags from Greyhound on two or three occasions but they never materialised. “People are now forced to put recyclable materials into the ordinary bins that go to land-fill” he added.

Colm, a northsider who lives close to Croke Park and who is standing for the People Before Profit Alliance in the upcoming local elections in the North Inner City Electoral area, commented that “These problems are a direct result of the introduction of a privatised service after the imposition of bin charges and the cuts to funding of local government. The Council is trying to do the job on the cheap and ordinary people are paying the price with a second class service.”