CUSTOMER CHARTER FOR PAY TO USE COMPACTOR UNITS
ACCEPTING HOUSEHOLD WASTE
INTRODUCTION
The Emerald Waste Company Ltd, trading as BIGbinTM is committed to providing the highest
standards in the provision of waste management services to their customers. We have a
commitment to providing a service that seeks to incentivise waste prevention and to encourage the
segregation of waste so that it can be managed in accordance with the waste hierarchy, whereby
waste prevention, preparing for reuse, recycling and other recovery are preferred over the disposal
of waste.
This approach is in line with current national waste policy in the area — A Resource Opportunity —
Waste Management Policy in Ireland. This document is designed to communicate how we intend to
provide household waste management services in accordance with these principles to the public in a
clear and concise fashion.
CUSTOMER SERVICE STANDARDS
(a) We will provide a reliable waste deposit service and process your waste in a professional and
environmentally sound manner.
(b) All service provision will be carried out in line with current local and national legislation and in
line with sustainable waste management practices.
(c) We will consider any reasonable special requests that individual households may have.
(d) We will explain clearly what our service rules are and the reasons for them.
(e) We will respond to formal complaints we receive about our services in a timely and professional
manner.
(f) We will design our service and accept waste in a way that minimises litter and odour nuisance.
(g) We will offer a “2 receptacle” or “3 receptacle” service to facilitate the segregation of household
residual, recyclable and where appropriate, food/bio waste in line with our Certificate of
Registration.
HOUSEHOLDER RESPONSIBILITIES
(a) In line with national policy, prevent, reuse and recycle waste as much as possible. Refer to
national and regional campaigns that seek to help reduce waste production. Segregate your waste
materials properly and place this waste in their respective receptacles. Please refer to the list of
acceptable wastes provide below, which are available on our website or which are available to be
sent to you by post, if requested.
PRICING, CHARGING MECHANISM
(a) The range of service and costs for service provision will be clearly communicated to each
customer on our website and at each bin through signage.
We charge €7 for two bags of general waste, €3 for a bag of recycling waste and €4 for food waste.
COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE/DISPUTE RESOLUTION
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(a) You are entitled to a fair and reasonable hearing when you have a genuine complaint or dispute
and the company commits to resolving your issues as quickly as is reasonably possible. Please find
our contact details for complaints:
John O’Connor 087 121 8907, or john@bigbin.ie
(b) We will respond to formal complaints we receive about our services in a timely and professional
manner. In the case of written complaints, within 10 working days.
EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS
(a) We shall implement an education and awareness programme in relation to waste management
for householders for which we provide a service. This will be available via promotional literature that
we provide directly to you and via our website or through the website of the relevant local authority.
(b) Information packs shall be available to all customers clearly indicating waste types appropriate to
each receptacle and how to deposit material for recycling.
(c) We shall work with other national bodies in promoting waste prevention, reduction and recycling
e.g. EPA / Repak etc.
(d) We will provide Waste Segregation and Presentation Guidelines to customers, or at a minimum
to the relevant local authority for publishing on their website, which clearly explain which materials
are to be placed in which receptacle and accept at a minimum the recycling materials set out below
and as prescribed in the seventh schedule of the Waste Management (Facility Permit and
Registration) Regulations 2007. We will explain to you what happens to materials deposited in the
residual, recycle and food waste receptacles.
Recycle Bin: What you can put our Recycling Bin
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Aluminium drinks cans
Foil takeaway trays
Clean aluminium foil
Disposable aluminium baking or food trays
Aerosol cans (remove plastic lids & empty contents)
e.g. air fresheners, polish sprays, shaving foam, deodorant sprays
Lids from glass jars
Cardboard packaging:
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All cardboard (clean & dry)
Cardboard egg boxes
Clothing labels
Fibreboard (e.g. cereal boxes)
Tissus boxes
Paper:
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Catalogues
Envelopes
Flyers & junk mail
Magazines
Newspapers
Office paper
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Phone books
Printing paper
Plastic:
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Drink bottles
Detergent/fabric softener bottles
Milk bottles
Shampoo/shower gel bottles
Washing-up liquid bottles
Window cleaning containers
Yoghurt drink bottles (no tubs/pots)
Overwrap on toilet rolls/kitcken towels, etc.
Plastic bags
Plastic film (e.g. cling film, shrink wrap)
Steel packaging:
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Biscuit tins
Soup tins
Steel food tins
Tetrapak:
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Juice cartons (rinsed out)
Milk cartons (rinsed out)
Soup cartons (rinsed out)
Please do not put the following in our Recycle bin:
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Aeroboard & Styrofoam
Asbestos
Butter containers
Ceramics or Pyrex glass
Coal bags
Coffee cups (paper or polystyrene)
Containers containing compressed gas
Crisp, sweet or foil based wrappers
Energy saving bulbs
Fluorescent bulbs
General refuse
Glass (In DLR, Kilkenny and Wicklow, glass is accepted in recycle bin)
Green or garden waste
Hazardous waste
Herbicides
Lead-acid batteries
Mercury dry cells
Nappies
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Oil cans
Paint cans
Plastic vegetable or food trays
Polystyrene
Sandwich containers
Sanitary waste
Televisions
Wallpaper
Wet waste
Wooden material
Yogurt tub pots
What you can put in our General Waste Bin:
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General refuse
Aeroboard/styrofoam
Butter containers
Coffee cups (paper & polystyrene)
Crisp, sweet or foil based wrappers
Dirty plastic and tin foil
Food contaminated material
Green or garden waste
Nappies
Plastic vegetable & food trays
Polystyrene
Sandwich containers
Sanitary waste
Wallpaper
Wax-paper wrappings
Wooden material
Yogurt tub opts
Please do not put the following in our General Waste bin:
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Asbestos
Batteries
Ceramics or Pyrex glass
Energy saving bulbs
Fluorescent bulbs
Glass or sharps
Hazardous waste
Metal bars
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Oil cans
Paint cans
Rubble
Syringes
What you can put in our Compost Bin:
Food Waste:
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All cooked & raw foods
Bones (meat & fish)
Breads, cereals, pasta, soup, sauces, dough, rice
Coffee grounds, filters, teabags
Dairy products (cheese, yoghurt, etc.)
Eggs, egg shells, egg boxes
Fruit & vegetables
Shellfish & bones
Table & plate scrapings
Garden Waste:
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Cut flowers & plants
Grass cuttings
Hedge clippings
Leaves
Moss
Plant trimmings (up to finger size twigs)
Weeds
Other Compostable Waste:
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Egg boxes
Paper napkins & paper towels
Soiled paper plates
Wet cardboard & paper
Wine corks
Please do not put the following in our Compost bin:
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Ashes
Batteries
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Cardboard
Clay
Clothes
Furniture
Glass, crockery or Pyrex
Juice cartons
Large branches
Nappies
Oil cans
Paint cans
Pesticide or pesticide containers
Plastic
Polystyrene
Rocks or gravel
Sanitary items
Shoes
Styrofoam
Weed killer or weeds sprayed with weed killer
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