Re: Tagging rubbish bins


"Pat Gardiner" <patgardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Environment Secretary David Miliband has said he is "interested" in
variable waste charging where the polluter is made to pay.



The pay as you go system is certainly already decided. Our area is about
to go over to a mandated container, available in small or standard.
Free now but an "administration charge" if houses do not accept one now and
get one in the future ( no collection without one)
This is from bags. In the past when it was suggested that bags were messey,
tended to rip and scatter contents along the street the authority resisted
wheelybins on the grounds that they were awkward to get to the refuse lorry,
encouraged people to keep rubbish in the road side of the house rather than
discretely hidden to
collection day. They also are unsanitary in that they are rarely cleaned.

Now there are lots of wheely bins available and I would bet that the bit
designed to be grabbed by the refuse lorry loader is standard. So if the
council want to mandate the type it is so it knows the weight. Two things
are needed to charge by load, an ID encoded into the implanted tag, and the
weight of the bin so the content weight can be determined.

If you are totally paranoid consider this:

The targetted cost of wifi lables is less than a penny, the development of
circuits capable of being printed using conventional printers is well under
way.
The postal, DHL etc all want wifi lables on everything from a postcard
upwards. All goods will replace barcodes with wifi lables.

So when you throw out your refuse the refuse reader will be able to read the
bin ID and measure its weight and then go on to determine what products are
having their
containers and wrappers dispossed of and where you recieved any mail or
package deliveries.

So when the authorities decide that a baby product is being used to disguise
a weapon etc they will be able to scan for households who have bought
the specific baby product but whose disposal profile does not fit having a
baby in the house.

Also coming up to election time see who has disposed of which election
material and determine which they have retained, good way of working out the
voting pattern by household. Particularly useful if you want to 'fine
adjust' constituency boundries.

Once the disposal tagging is in place most of your life is auditable, you
buy in tesco and pay by credit or debit card there is a trace of every item
you purchased to you.
Now they look like doing the same to what you throw away. Travel by most
methods is becoming traceable, number plate readers, season tickets swiped
through
entry barriers etc.

Cash is likely to be more discouraged as debit cards in the form of
pre-charged cards come into force. I am going to the states shortly and my
son does not have a credit card so I have bought from the Post Office a VISA
pre-loaded debit card. It is basically electronic cash. Issued for some
reason by an Irish bank.
So his 'cash' purchses will be auditable.

There is also research into wifi tagging of currency notes, so they may be
traced from issue from a bank through shop tills and back to the bank.
Useful for the police to know when they walk past a youth hanging around a
street corner that he has a few thousand in cash in his pocket.

Inland revenue will certainly like the ability to identify people with
spending habits inconsistant with their declared income, similarly with
social security.

Local councils will certainly like to identify individuals dropping litter
who have sufficient cash on their person for an instant fine :)define

#define PARANOID_MODE PARANOIA_OFF



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