Interesting what works for some, we just use two recurring calendar events for a 3-bin system the night before. Where the pickups differ like end of year holidays, we revert to no tech and just glance into the street and see what everyone else is doing.
I always smile when I see Anglophones and their outdated concepts. You could just have a communal or public bin and then never have to worry about putting the bin out. But no, let’s instead make a complicated schedule and penalize people who don’t keep to that schedule. And have everyone sacrifice a square meter of their yard to stinky bins.
The EU has laws for that and countries with communal bins are doing just fine.
Communal bins are even better for sorting trash as you can easily have six different types* next to each other. Nobody wants six personal bins in their yard.
You need to put those communal bins somewhere. And they’re very unpopular to be next to. See the discussion about bin hubs [0] in Edinburgh. Bear in mind that the city centre already had communal bins, this is just a slight shift to how they were set up.
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Here the rate per kg is different depending on which bin it is, so you're "rewarded" for sorting properly.
Communal bins are even better for sorting trash as you can easily have six different types* next to each other. Nobody wants six personal bins in their yard.
https://eeb.org/en/library/explained-europes-new-laws-for-se...
* paper, textile, plastics, biowaste, chemical/oils, glass, other
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/18f1f5e/how_are_...
Complete with notifications when you want them and automatic updates when pickup are changed due to holidays/disruptions
So nice, until it's the third week of January and I remember that I need to manually import a new year :P