That's a good question. I guess the response would really depend on the person and what habits they have. I was talking with someone who was saying how there were places where they used to use banana leaves to hold take out foods and their habit was to just stop them when they'd finished, leaving them to rot back into the ground. When plastic was introduced, the habit was already there so now they have a huge plastic waste problem. If all public waste bins here disappeared I can imagine we'd have a similar problem.
If council bins were removed, would the companies take it upon themselves to provide bins near or in their stores at their own cost? It would certainly be beneficial to them as it would be a service provided which would potentially attract and endear more customers to them. Angel was telling me that in areas in the US, Dominos pizza pays to have potholes repaired when councils fail to do anything. They plaster something like a "repaired by Dominos" logo on it. Now that's good marketing!
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I was more referring to our home wheelie bins. If council stopped giving us all that 'free' volume to fill each week; we'd show a lot more discernment in our purchasing decisions.
I did think that was what you meant and thought they'd probably use the public bins instead. Then I realised that these are also paid for out of our council rates. My brain kind of went off at a tangent from there...
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