Panda waste price increase again.

Were those price increases communicated by email to you OP? I got an email from them on 09-Nov with subject Customer Update playing the poor mount with increasing costs and sustainability but there was no details of the actual price increases on standing charge or general waste lift costs. The only reference to price increases was as follows:

"While we have absorbed the majority of these costs internally, unfortunately from December 1st, there will be an increase of 4.8% to your current prices. This change will see an average customer’s price increase by €1.20 per month."

The email was so vague I just assumed it was in relation to recycling waste only for which I have a lift cost of €0.80 and a price per kg of €0.045. My standing charge is currently €110 but general waste lift cost is €9.05 so surprised yours is lower at €8.70.

So if I take my email statement with the price increase of 4.8% to cover everything I'm assuming my standing charge will increase to €115 which is somewhat manageable as i have been paying the same rate for the last 5 years but €146 is preposterous.

I reckon they wanted more soft plastics so they could sell it on for incineration.

Recycling me hole

Thanks, that's word for word the same as the email I received apart from the paragraph regarding the price increases which I had copied in my earlier post for reference. The whole thing is so poorly worded and yours even more so as "your service charge will be updated to €18 Half Yearly" reads to me as a significant reduction with updated to being the total you pay similar to the wording on the waste bin lift charge.

How many different pricing plans have they for the same geographic area, surely that's unethical with different customers charged different rates for the same service. I know people in Dublin 14 with Panda who have different prices entirely and even a hefty per Kg cost on the brown bin resulting in them doing all their own composting since it's uneconomical to use.

Yep they are the only bin collector available here

Agreed. I see a lot of people with 2 green bins now.

They sound like good value, will they call to any area in blanch?

I think that's why they asked for soft plastics in green bin. To get a bit more money from the incinerators.

"said I went overweight 7 times in the last quarter... some leap tho ...will work out at an extra 100+ euro a month."

What weight limit, didn't know one existed with Panda. I don't put out the black bin very often but last month it weighed 65kg and there was no additional charges to the per lift cost of €9.05. There is a per kg charge on the recycling bin and looking at my weighted lift summary for the past year the heaviest green bin I put out was 21kg.

What part of D15 are you in and have you the option of paying semi annually or annually to cut down on the standing charge. I'm presuming your standing charge of €85 and now to be €114 covers everything and you don't have a per lift charge on black and green bins like us paying semi annually.

Surprised how many different pricing plans a company like Panda has for slightly different areas within Dublin and even D15. Surely it would streamline their accounts greatly to have everyone on the same price plan.