Town authority tracks trash cans with chips

A local told the INQ that the smaller wheelie bins are for waste, while the bigger ones are now to be used for recycling.

He confesses that he hasn't got a clue why Bournemouth Borough Council has chipped up the rubbish bins. Is your bin watching you?

The council claims the government has told it the bins need monitoring. Tony Blair needs this information for a reason best known only to him. But residents have been assured the chip won't monitor the contents of the bin.

According to local newspaper the Bournemouth Echo reporter Julie Magee (no relation - at least we don't think so), the residents are up in arms about this. But they've been told that if they tamper with the bins, they face a bill of 28 quid. That's though the chips only cost a tiny fraction of that.

Dozens of residents have already prised the chips out of the bin, it seems.

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