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Weekly Bin collections will NOT return
Government U-Turn of the day, and breaking an election pledge, the Government has decided that the fortnightly collection will stay.
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Before the election Cameron said:
// The Tory leader said he will tell councils to end fortnightly collections and offer them millions of pounds to do so. //
http://www.dailymail....ds.html#ixzz1P3mYVVGI
Earlier this year the Government line was
// Local Government Minister Bob Neill said he wanted to "reverse the legacy of Labour's savage cutbacks to weekly rubbish collections". //
Well done to the Government for owning up to a mistake?
http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml
Before the election Cameron said:
// The Tory leader said he will tell councils to end fortnightly collections and offer them millions of pounds to do so. //
http://www.dailymail....ds.html#ixzz1P3mYVVGI
Earlier this year the Government line was
// Local Government Minister Bob Neill said he wanted to "reverse the legacy of Labour's savage cutbacks to weekly rubbish collections". //
Well done to the Government for owning up to a mistake?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.quite right. We're about to go from weekly to fortnightly collection, but there are now organic and recycling collections as well, which mean our wheelie bins are nowhere near full after a week. Plus it's given Cameron the chance to break yet another campaign pledge; he must be nearing his 100 for the season.
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Can't understand this obsession with weekly bin collections! When we lived in Germany, we had the smaller bins, the big ones used here were for shops etc., and we managed perfectly well, even with two children.
I would however recommend to councils the idea of a monthly bulk rubbish collection, to get rid of bigger items, might cut down the amount of fly-tipping.
I would however recommend to councils the idea of a monthly bulk rubbish collection, to get rid of bigger items, might cut down the amount of fly-tipping.
you can recycle your stuff as much as you please, we do our bit, in case someone moans, but i have seen our recycling vehicles, and they empty all our our recycling wheelie bins into their vehicles, so everything gets lumped toegether, now unless it has separate compartments i can't see how this works. Perhaps its all sorted out someplace else, then can't see the point of having separate recycling bins. I did put this point to the council ages ago, but received no reply.
Those of us who live in apartment blocks can't recycle----there is no real provision. And-if you don't drive-like me-you can't transport anything you DO want to recycle. Collections every other week don't work either as there is not enough storage as it is for the weekly amount folks deposit in the rubbish storage area for our building.
From the Telegraph...
// Plans to restore weekly bin rounds are being killed off by a massive rebellion among TORY councils. //
http://www.telegraph....don-area-Islamic.html
// Plans to restore weekly bin rounds are being killed off by a massive rebellion among TORY councils. //
http://www.telegraph....don-area-Islamic.html
Cazz agree totally, however recycling has been around a long while now, at least in our borough, but the policies and practicalities of recycling still do not work well, at government or local level. add to that how much of our rubbish ends up not just in UK land fill sites, but in overseas ones, that surely is criminal.
round here we have a big bin for recycling stuff and a small bin for the rest, the small bin is emptied weekly and the big one fortnightly. The same system applies to blocks too. They publish figures and they recycle over 70% of waste, in fact it's an earner for the council. There is a sorting centre for all the recyclables. This is the best scheme I've seen. I've heard of some crackpot schemes all over the country that are unworkable.
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