South Norfolk DC has abandoned its pioneering microchipped wheelie bins scheme.
The council, was one of the first in the UK to fit their bins with microchips, now believes the technology used to weigh the bins was unreliable and has abandoned the £250,000 scheme.
The chips were supposed to show how much people were throwing away and recycling. The bins were weighed by the lorry's lifting equipment and the information sent to computers in the council offices enabling the council to tell exactly how much waste was being collected and where it was coming from.
Cllr David Bills of South Norfolk DC said: ‘The data that was coming out was not foolproof and you must appreciate that if one is charging or reimbursing people based on data, that data has got to be correct 100% each day of the year. If it's not, people are going to start querying it and it's going to lead to all sorts of problems.’
The council, was one of the first in the UK to fit their bins with microchips, now believes the technology used to weigh the bins was unreliable and has abandoned the £250,000 scheme.
The chips were supposed to show how much people were throwing away and recycling. The bins were weighed by the lorry's lifting equipment and the information sent to computers in the council offices enabling the council to tell exactly how much waste was being collected and where it was coming from.
Cllr David Bills of South Norfolk DC said: ‘The data that was coming out was not foolproof and you must appreciate that if one is charging or reimbursing people based on data, that data has got to be correct 100% each day of the year. If it's not, people are going to start querying it and it's going to lead to all sorts of problems.’
