refuse collection

[crisgal]

how often is your rubbish bin emptied by the council? I mean the general waste, not the recyclable stuff. And what county do you live in?

Ours is once a fortnight - lancashire

[RATTER15]

Every week, Devon

[Toureman]

Everything goes every week, Anglesey is a bit behind the times, no collection of recycling refuse.

[Kathyan]

We used to have our bins emptied every week and the blue box )glass & cans) and blue bag (paper) every fourth week. Now we have a green bin and this along with the blue box and bag are emptied one week and the normal bin on the other week. I have now got 4 bags of rubbish and the normal bin is full. When this is emptied next Thursday, I will put the bags in the bin and then have to wait two weeks before it is emptied again, by which time I will have accumulated another 4 bags. Most of the stuff in the normal bin is non-recyclable (sp?) or things which the council don't have facilities to re-cycle (plastic bags, milk cartons etc) Council Tax has gone up 7% this year, so what exactly do we get for our money?

[Snowy Owl]

West Dorset...general waste every week, recyclables every two weeks.

[maggie01]

Hampshire. Recylcled and waste every two weeks alternatively. I put everything into black bags and it is well wrapped, but not keen on the waste bin being emptied every two weeks.

[shaneystar2]

Norfolk ..once a fortnight.

[hammerman]

Lewes, East Sussex.....general waste weekly, recycling fornightly

Mind you. i pay �135 per month poll tax on a pretty standard mid terrace 3 bed so i really wouldn't expect anything else.

[SC00BY]

I'm in Lancashire too.
general and recycling one week. Green waste the next week.

[Pea Pod]

Co Durham Household once a week. Recycling Fortnightly and a brown bin for garden waste Fortnightly.

[edwardian]

Telford and the Wrekin - once a fortnight.

[Jules001]

NW London (Middlesex) we have a brown bin for garden/kitchen waste which is collected weekly at the moment until November when it will change to fortnightly. Green bin for non recyclable waste collected fortnightly plus we have a green box for bottle, cans, paper and plastic which alternates weeks with the green bin

[ELVIS68]

General waste...every Tuesday
Paper...every other Tuesday,,, Tonwell, Hertfordshire

[Rock'n'Roll]

General waste and paper,weekly. Green stuff and bottles/plastic,every fortnight. I live in Bolton, I think it has more to do with your town council than county council

[Lonnie]

Once a week, the recyle stuff once a fortnight.

[skyep]

crisgal - Once a week, Manchester

[ruthann58]

suffolk once a fortnight

[spudqueen]

I'm also in Lancashire, yes we get our general waste emptied once a fortnight. There are usually a couple of weeks over the Christmas/New Year period when they don't empty the brown bins, just weekly collections of general waste. I think it's great that there is so much recyling going on now, it really makes people think rather than just chucking it in the bin.

[gasman]

General waste (Grey) Wheely bin emptied Weekly every wednesday,
Garden waste & veg (Green) Wheely bin emptied twice a month 1st & 3rd wednesday in summer & once a month in winter (not as much grass to cut ) makes sense to me.
Paper & card (Brown) Wheely bin twice a month 2nd & 4th Wednesday.
We come under the Wakefield Metropolitan Council District , Yorkshire.

[caron musson]

once a week in Grimsby
once a fortnight for the recycles