Our guide keeping your pay-by-weight bin charges down

The added domestic pressure of pay-by-weight bin charges arrives on the July 1st. Are you ready to account for every rounded up kilogram of waste you produce? Follow our guide to winkle back every cent possible, lightening your load and the landfill take without over-stuffing the composter.

On July 1, the minimum pay-by-weight bin charges as set out by the Department of the Environment and prompted by the EU legislation, were due to launch at 11c per kilogram of black bin rubbish, with brown bin (organic /food waste) at least 6c per kilogram.

Whether you signed off with a provider last year or last week, tag collections and flat-fee arrangements, which were to be rubbished from that day, are back again.