Weekly bin collections - do you give a 4x?

[Norman Potting]

Daily Mail seem to have almost as much of a thing about this as Asylum seekers/Lady Di/BBC/unemployed etc.

Whilst I acknowledge that there may be issues for some are they making a fuss about nothing and would the ConDems be better off sorting out more pressing matters?

 

[8ace]

My bin is usually only half full after a week so wouldn't bother me.

 

[footychick]

We've had weekly ones for ages

 

[beorhthelm]

it is an issue, but a local one that shouldnt be wasting the time of politicans at a national level. though if they made promises, more fool them. it seems councils are generally using two weekly collections to alternate landfill and recylced rubbish. maybe those against would like to pay more for 2 weekly collections instead? on the other hand, i dont fancy the outcome after 2 weeks in a proper long, hot, dry, summer, which we havent seen for a few years.

 

[fork me]

Daily Mail seem to have almost as much of a thing about this as Asylum seekers/Lady Di/BBC/unemployed etc.

Whilst I acknowledge that there may be issues for some are they making a fuss about nothing and would the ConDems be better off sorting out more pressing matters?

If you live in a flat with no outside storage area, anything less than weekly bin collections is bloody unhygenic. I used to have a flat in Buckingham Road, a conservation area, you couldn't put rubbish out until the day of collection. In the summer the bags could absolutely stink by the end of the week. I dread to think what they'd be like after two weeks.

Anyway, I live in a poorer country now, with a much lower tax rate, that manages to collect the rubbish three times a week, even on a bank holiday.

 

[Stoo82]

If you live in a flat with no outside storage area, anything less than weekly bin collections is bloody unhygenic. I used to have a flat in Buckingham Road, a conservation area, you couldn't put rubbish out until the day of collection. In the summer the bags could absolutely stink by the end of the week. I dread to think what they'd be like after two weeks.

Anyway, I live in a poorer country now, with a much lower tax rate, that manages to collect the rubbish three times a week, even on a bank holiday.

Yep. When I was in Greece, it was a DAILY collection.

 

[8ace]

If you live in a flat with no outside storage area, anything less than weekly bin collections is bloody unhygenic. I used to have a flat in Buckingham Road, a conservation area, you couldn't put rubbish out until the day of collection. In the summer the bags could absolutely stink by the end of the week. I dread to think what they'd be like after two weeks.

Anyway, I live in a poorer country now, with a much lower tax rate, that manages to collect the rubbish three times a week, even on a bank holiday.

Those places have large communal bins these days.

 

[paul-brighton]

I could live with 2 weekly, IF they cut my council tax to reflect it.

 

[Brovion]

Only in Britain could they halve refuse collections and, despite the risk it posed to public health, try and say it was 'good'. I know councils are looking to save money but I wish they wouldn't give the bollocks about 'it encourages recycling'. I live in an area with a Green MP and Green councillors, and those of us who don't vote Green have a degree of environmental consciousness. Consequently I think it's fair to say that most people round my way already recycle pretty much all we can without being 'encouraged' to by cancelling weekly rubbish collections. Even so if there is a delay (such as with the snow) and the binmen don't come round, then our street looks like something from some 3rd world slum.

If they cancelled the weekly collection (which in fairness I don't think has even been mentioned), I would fly-tip my rubbish in protest.

EDIT: Can't vote in the poll as my life is not yet a 'living hell', but I would be extremely pissed off if fortnightly collections were introduced in Brighton.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I used to feel quite strongly in principle that everyone ought to have weekly rubbish collections (not necessarily with recyclables , though), until I realised that I forget to put mine out about every other week anyway. So, I think there are more pressing things to worry about - at least, for me, in my situation. If you have nowhere to store it safely, e.g. flats, it may be a different matter though.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I'd live with every other week for the main rubbish if they increased the recycling collections to every week and added in a green waste collection.

 

[El Presidente]

I'd live with every other week for the main rubbish if they increased the recycling collections to every week and added in a green waste collection.

In Manchester we have a rubbish collection every two weeks, garden waste two weeks in three in summer and once every two in winter, cans and bottles once a fortnight, and paper once a fortnight. I have a total of four different wheelie bins and it works fine.

It takes a modicum of effort, but surely it's worth it if we can increase the amount of waste that is recycled?

 

[Beach Hut]

We have rubbish weekly and re-cycling every two weeks, works fine.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I'd live with every other week for the main rubbish if they increased the recycling collections to every week and added in a green waste collection.

Surely, recyclables are "cleaner" than normal waste ... I'm thinking that cans, bottles etc. are usually washed before going in the recycle bin, so there's less urgency to collect.

 

[clippedgull]

Living here, in a Brighton hi-rise (120 two bedroom flats) we have two collections a week. If not then the refuse collectors wouldn't be able to get anywhere near the communal bin room!

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Perth(Aus) has 1 every week with the 2nd week being recycle and normal rubbish but we all have wheely bins.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Perth(Aus) has 1 every week with the 2nd week being recycle and normal rubbish but we all have wheely bins.

Same as Shoreham, normal rubbish weekly, recycling fornightly (always falling on the same day as normal collection). Not sure about garden waste, I think that goes with the recycling, but you pay extra for that.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Surely, recyclables are "cleaner" than normal waste ... I'm thinking that cans, bottles etc. are usually washed before going in the recycle bin, so there's less urgency to collect.

My bin is only ever half full when it's collected yet my recycling overfloweth - I was thinking of it less from a hygiene perspective and more a convenience one which might encourage more recycling.

 

[Triggaaar]

it is an issue, but a local one that shouldnt be wasting the time of politicans at a national level.

If you live in a flat with no outside storage area, anything less than weekly bin collections is bloody unhygenic.

Those.

For us, given the small size of our bins, we really need a weekly collection.

 

[drew]

If you live in a flat with no outside storage area, anything less than weekly bin collections is bloody unhygenic. I used to have a flat in Buckingham Road, a conservation area, you couldn't put rubbish out until the day of collection. In the summer the bags could absolutely stink by the end of the week. I dread to think what they'd be like after two weeks.

Anyway, I live in a poorer country now, with a much lower tax rate, that manages to collect the rubbish three times a week, even on a bank holiday.

You don't have to live in a conservation area not to be allowed to put your rubbish out early.

Do they get everything else in Cyprus that we get as tax payers then. Free NHS and the like?

Only in Britain could they halve refuse collections and, despite the risk it posed to public health, try and say it was 'good'. I know councils are looking to save money but I wish they wouldn't give the bollocks about 'it encourages recycling'. I live in an area with a Green MP and Green councillors, and those of us who don't vote Green have a degree of environmental consciousness. Consequently I think it's fair to say that most people round my way already recycle pretty much all we can without being 'encouraged' to by cancelling weekly rubbish collections. Even so if there is a delay (such as with the snow) and the binmen don't come round, then our street looks like something from some 3rd world slum.

If they cancelled the weekly collection (which in fairness I don't think has even been mentioned), I would fly-tip my rubbish in protest.

EDIT: Can't vote in the poll as my life is not yet a 'living hell', but I would be extremely pissed off if fortnightly collections were introduced in Brighton.

So, you don't want your place to look like a third world slum but wouldn't have any qualms about inflicting the same on everyone else. If you can make the effort to fly tip then why note just take it to the local dump?


In Burgess Hill there is the alternate landfill/recyling collection with green waste on Thursday which I believe costs a few extra pence a week. We are a family of 3 and generally fill the landfill bin in each two week period but recycling is only normally two thirds full. The statistics seem to suggest that with this system, councils have found recycling has increased 240%. So, I don't have a problem with it but I can understand that large communal refuse areas, such as blocks of flats need more collections.