I bet this one made Kenty happy!

3 Oct 2011

Looks as though, at last the return of weekly bin collections are on there way for those who had lost them. A good and sensible idea I think.
The cudgels were taken up by Eric Pickles, now the Communities Secretary, who called it a "basic right for every Englishman and woman to be able to put the remnants of their chicken tikka masala in their bin without having to wait two weeks for it to be collected".

3 Oct 2011

i bet there will still be councils that dig there heels in and do not comply.
i hope that councils do agree and do what the majority of tax payers want and that is to get there rubbish taken away every week. not a lot to ask for for the vast sums of money we all pay dunno

3 Oct 2011

Ahhhhhhhh but read the small print.
Pickles has had to admit that he has to provide a £150,000,000 extra fund to get this going but only for upto 5 years. When the fund runs out then the collections stop.
Dave_Notts

3 Oct 2011

Quote by Bluefish2009
Looks as though, at last the return of weekly bin collections are on there way for those who had lost them. A good and sensible idea I think.
The cudgels were taken up by Eric Pickles, now the Communities Secretary, who called it a "basic right for every Englishman and woman to be able to put the remnants of their chicken tikka masala in their bin without having to wait two weeks for it to be collected".

Which in our case we didnt have too as the food waste is collected weekly lol

A backwards step. Just got the hang of getting the wheelie bin to last two weeks and with plastic recycling on the way here would have been even easier.

3 Oct 2011

We have a general waste collection every fortnight and a recycling collection in between. There have been no problems.

4 Oct 2011

we have all recycling collected every week with general every other week and garden waste and textiles the other week. 1 prob here general bin is now only a quarter full fortnightly, but the only problem is separating into the 5 different recycling recepticals all the time is clogging up my kitchen space a much better idea would be to have a 'green' wheely bin and all recyclable goes all together except garden waste

4 Oct 2011

We have two bins, one for general waste and one for recycling waste. I sort the recycling into type when I transfer it to the main bins.

4 Oct 2011

Quote by Ben_Minx
We have a general waste collection every fortnight and a recycling collection in between. There have been no problems.

Here neither.
We have three bins: general, plastics and compostible/garden/cardboard. At the time I was working alongside the council's waste department and also managed to get a composter.

4 Oct 2011

Quote by Calista
We have a general waste collection every fortnight and a recycling collection in between. There have been no problems.

Here neither.
We have three bins: general, plastics and compostible/garden/cardboard. At the time I was working alongside the council's waste department and also managed to get a composter.
We still get weekly general collection, and fortnightly recyclable. The rubbish in the general bin tends to be 90% plastiic wrapping that they won't/can't recycle so once every two weeks would suit us. I'd love to have a garden waste collection but they expect us to take that to the dump ourselves. Mind you, we'd probably need to have a skip every two weeks for ours, especially as everything in our garden seems to think it's time to grow again!! mad

4 Oct 2011

We are lucky enough to have our bins collected weekly and a fortnightly recycling collection. But I am very pleased for those who have lost this service, and find it a problem, that it may be returning for them :thumbup:

4 Oct 2011

Our recycling which is paper cardboard shoes tines all types of stuff goes weekly along with food waste collected seperately. Our wheelie bin goes every 2 weeks on the same day. You have to pay to have a green garden wheeli bin (no thanks) and they did offer composters but on a first come first serve basis with so many free ones then the rest had to pay. Sorry but I dont pay council tax to be entered into a lottery. Plastic recycling is coming in soon, works well for me so far.

4 Oct 2011

Quote by tweeky
Our recycling which is paper cardboard shoes tines all types of stuff goes weekly along with food waste collected seperately. Our wheelie bin goes every 2 weeks on the same day. You have to pay to have a green garden wheeli bin (no thanks) and they did offer composters but on a first come first serve basis with so many free ones then the rest had to pay. Sorry but I dont pay council tax to be entered into a lottery. Plastic recycling is coming in soon, works well for me so far.

Our recycling, every two weeks is tins, can, plastic bottles, paper. Shoes etc have to be taken in our selves just like garden waist. We made our own composter just as my parents and grandparents did before me.
I would hate for our house hold rubbish to be collected fortnightly though

5 Oct 2011

Quote by Bluefish2009
We are lucky enough to have our bins collected weekly and a fortnightly recycling collection. But I am very pleased for those who have lost this service, and find it a problem, that it may be returning for them :thumbup:

But, but, but . . . surely it would be more cost effective ((( In an 'all in it together' kinda way given properly important cuts to local public services? ))) if tax payers just learned to live with fortnightly collections, and learned how to manage their waste more effectively, like lots of us have been doing for aaaaages, safe in the knowledge that their taxes weren't going towards subsidies for those too idle to change their waste disposing behaviour, in a state sponsored kinda way? confused

£250 million pounds over five years Blue, to encourage the kind of recycling initiatives the withdrawal of weekly bin collections were meant to encourage in the first place? :? To be fair to Kenty, and Daily Mail readers everywhere going by the comment pages, even they're not daft enough to fall for this one? :?
For the record, we're still waiting for the brown garden waste bin, and the food waste bin. We fill the monthly emptied green bin with paper and plastics within a couple of weeks, and carry the paper / glass / textile overflow down to Morridogs when we can no longer get into the conservatory ((( I know . . . get us! lol

It's not really a conservatory . . . more of a lean-to really. It's classed as a conservatory by the letting agent, and we probably pay around 50 quid a month for the privelege. Bloody expensive tomatoes so they are! :lol: ))) The black bin is rarely full by the time our ((( weekly! ))) bin collection comes round.
N x x x ;)