An Adelaide City councillor has proposed asking residents to use totally transparent wheelie bins so they’re fully aware of how much shit they direct to the nearest landfill.
But more importantly, the see-through bins seem to be about knowing how much other people chuck away. To quote Councillor Robert Simms: “In a way, it is kind of naming and shaming.”
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The Advertiser reports Simms raised the proposal at a council meeting this week in the hopes of securing Adelaide’s reputation for recycling. After all, South Australia was one of the first jurisdictions to provide cash rebates for recycling aluminium cans and some plastic bottles.
Simms added people who gain an income by finding those recyclables and trading them in could also made use of the bins’ see-through status.
7NEWS reports Simms will move a motion next week hoping to lock down support for the measure.
The push comes after Perth councils trialled the see-through bins for a few weeks last year as part of the Face Your Waste campaign. We hope that at least one person came to confronting conclusions about their neighbours due to the snoopy bins.
