Talk:Pay as you throw

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--Alex 15:19, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] USPOV

This article appears to me to be quite biased to the US (or possibly Anglosphere) situation:

  • the article presupposes that the "community" implements garbage collection, rather than private companies or larger-scale entities, which is the case elsewhere in the world
  • "ranging from small towns to large cities" (arguably) excludes rural settlement patterns
  • "picked up weekly" is a bit weird, since the pick-up frequency is commonly different from that.
  • the term "pay as you throw" itself seems to me to be both overly informal and probably based on political debates in just one or two countries.
  • no information whatsoever about where the flat-fee model has been replaced, or never used at all. To me, it reads like the implied statement is that many flat-fee garbage pricing used to be universal in the US, and then been replaced by "PAYT" in some of them, across the country, with no reference given to countries that have a different history.

Feel free to change that to a normal NPOV warning, but fix the article (which should probably be merged with one about the rather weird flat-fee model PAYT is replacing) before removing it entirely. Thanks.

RandomP 15:35, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Please... I'm not the author of this text. But I'm French-Canadian, from Québec. So I know a lot about American ethnocentrism. But now, we are talking about a program that is specific to the US. Please let the author explain what they do there without accusing him/her of being egocentric. S'il vous plaît, laissez-lui la paix! Il parle d'une idée intéressante!