Mr. Conor Walsh:

In our experience, communal bins are a disaster. We see communal bins at apartments and people using bins communally in commercial premises. That is where the highest levels of contamination are. People do not take personal responsibility when there are communal bins. People in their own homes, with their three-bin system, are much more likely to take responsibility and we can also monitor that much better. We had a camera detection system that we operated for quite a while. It is coming back in again, I believe. The cameras are able to detect contamination when the waste is emptied form the bin into the truck. They then get a letter informing them what the contamination was, educating them and so on. Personal responsibility is huge when it comes to contamination.