Enforcement of the Waste Regulations…is it happening?

Householders are being asked, and required by law to segregate their waste and while the author has found that the vast majority of householders are complying, residents of MUD’s and accomodation blocks generally do not, as can be evidenced by the amount of black sacks and lack of brown bins in the waste storage areas of these complexes. And why is this? Firstly Waste Service Providers who should not collect contaminated waste, are doing so ! Secondly the residents of these complexes pay a flat utility charge/management fee and see no need to segregate waste when there is no financial benefit for them, and even if they do segregate their neighbour may not and will contaminate the segregated waste anyway. The non segregation of food waste is against the law…so why is this happening? Perhaps a leaf could be taken from the “Conditions of Occupancy and Residential Charges for Students Resident in the National College of Ireland Campus Residencies”, published by the National College of Ireland, the only thrid level institute that I am aware of which manadtes what students should do with their waste.It sets out the rules applicable to tennats of student accommodation, and  how waste is be to segregated by tenants, how they are regulated and what the fines are for non compliance. The process is simple, it works and the penalties are clear. Unfortunately this is not the case in most MUD’s and accommodation blocks, where there is no enforcement or penalties and the Waste Service Provider will collect the waste anyway. And as we all know, when there is no enforcement there is no compliance!