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You don't need a microchip to know when you're on holiday. If someone was so interested in breaking in your house, so much so that they keep up with the data on microchips, they could easily do the same by stalking your house to see if any cars are gone, if the trash can never comes out, or has just stayed there. Also, they could look to see how many newspapers have piled up in the drive way, look in your mail box to see if mail has piled up, etc etc etc etc.....
Originally posted by Deaf Alien
reply to post by space cadet
It is not a story about being spyed on, it is all about weighing your garbage. No big whoop.
Hello?
It also warned that collection of data from chipped bins could show when households were on holiday, opening the way to abuse by criminals.
....
However, in 2008 nearly 100 councils ran investigations into the contents of their residents' bins, in some cases to check on what rubbish they dump and in others to try to obtain information on their incomes and lifestyles.
Originally posted by atlasastro
reply to post by Korg Trinity
How many people could compost but throw out material in bins?
Millions of people do it needlessly every day.
There is no need to throw these materials away when they can be recycled at home in a garden.
This is needless waste.
In 2008 the Open university in the UK found that over 30% of household bin contents were kitchen scraps.
again, garden clippings can be composted. This is again needless waste created by people by simply putting it in a bin. That needs to be collected, that needs to be transported, sorted, burnt, buried or recycled.
Needles waste.
How many people shop with plastic bags, bring them home and throw them out. Millions do everyday. Needlessly.
There is no need to use plastic bottles and then throw them away in a bin when there are more sustainable ways of holding, storing and transporting fluids.
This is needless rubbish.
Please explain to me what is needed in that waste.
If it is not needless waste, tell me what is needed as waste.
So tell me what is needed in it, if my claim that some waste is needless is incorrect and unfounded.
Who needlessly produces rubbish??
We do, everyday.
You buy something, it comes in a package... you throw it away.
And this is the only way to do that is it?
That you only have to buy stuff that comes in materials that have to be thrown away?
There is no other alternative?
All the waste produced is absolutely needed? We need to create that waste? Or is it needlessly created?
In other words, look at your habits and find the waste that is not needed.
I am astounded that you think all the waste we produce is done out of necessity.
Look at the planet my friend. Look really, really, really hard.
Are you saying that we needed kilometers and kilometers of...
Is all this the consequences of people who needed to produce waste. Or is it the consequence of producing rubbish needlessly as a habit by lazy and short sighted consumption?
Originally posted by space cadet
making sure others are "buying groceries or not with their stamps", or running a meth lab. None of anyone's damn business.
How can you say that these things are none of anyone's damn business????? Do you advocate the manufacture and use of meth????
Do you think misusing the welfare programs is OK ????
Those were just 2 worthy items I came up with that could benefit from keeping up with people's garbage. But that is not what they are wanting. They just want to know how much garbage you are throwing out.
edit to add: My frustration with insane responses such as yours, and insane threads has just about given me the will to stop coming here, then I realize that unless people come back and respond to insane statements, the teenagers on here might start thinking there is truth in all the threads here. I prefer to post a little more responsively.
[edit on 5-3-2010 by space cadet]
Originally posted by Deaf Alien
Spy chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION dustbins
www.dailymail.co.u k
(visit the link for the full news article)
Spy chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION dustbins: 60pc rise in electronic bugs as council snoopers plan pay-as-you-throw tax
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk...
The growing threat of a stealth tax on the rubbish we throw away was exposed by startling figures yesterday.
More than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents.
Originally posted by Deaf Alien
reply to post by space cadet
It is not a story about being spyed on, it is all about weighing your garbage. No big whoop.
Hello?
It also warned that collection of data from chipped bins could show when households were on holiday, opening the way to abuse by criminals.
....
However, in 2008 nearly 100 councils ran investigations into the contents of their residents' bins, in some cases to check on what rubbish they dump and in others to try to obtain information on their incomes and lifestyles.
Originally posted by jpmail
looks like I might start a business making large and powerful ectro magnets that I can sell to people to kill the chip in there bins.
I do not have a issue with anyone knowing what I put in my bin but this is only the start of charging for your rubbish by weight as well as you paying your full council tax.
If they want to charge me by the wieght of my rubbish I demand a reduction in my council tax (which you all know we won't get) and I demand legislation from the goverment to reduce the amount of packaging used on goods.