A resident of Wicklow explained to me that within a month of the system starting he found that his household had drastically cut down on the amount of rubbish it put out, almost without thinking about it. Up to then, he had sorted out stuff for recycling whenever he remembered to do it. Now he found he was religiously putting aside stuff for recycling all the time, because he had an incentive to do it. Similarly, he now had an incentive to maintain a compost heap in his garden and feed it with organic waste.