Monthly Bin Collections

[Eve]

Could this work and would it encourage better recycling?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446852/The-city-bins-collected-MONTH-Families-facing-week-waits-Cardiff-bid-save-council-money.html

We have two weekly bin collections for general waste and most recycling (weekly for green bin) in my bit of Manchester and a number of recycling bins. With recycling, I don't generate that much actual rubbish for the general grey bin but it's only me generating any rubbish so once a fortnight is ok but I have to juggle sometimes if I want to get rid of more/bulky rubbish to make sure it will all fit in the bin.

How would this work for larger families of houses of multiple occupancy like student houses? Would it lead to increased problems of rubbish left festering in the street?

How would it work for you?

[youngmafbog]

Hope you dont have babies or dogs then Gromit !!

[Zeuhl]

/it would be good to have a facility for people to get rid of items/

when we lived in Carshalton Surrey, Sutton Council had a lot of skips they rotated around the Borough; it worked out that they'd arrive twice a year for a week with one skip for every 10 houses or so.

Great opportunity to get rid of old furniture etc - or 'recycle' stuff from more profligate neighbours.

That was back in the 90s - don't know if they still do it.

[FredPuli43]

Good idea, zeuhl. The French have an even better system. They have one day set aside each month on which the council collects all those big items, such as furniture and refrigerators. The householder has merely to leave the stuff outside on, or close, by the street, the night before, and it all gets taken away.

[Mamyalynne]

They do that in the Czech Republic too, and it works well.

[zebo]

Germany has, or used to have when we lived there, a "bulkm rubbish" day, once a month and, as others say it, worked very well. We also has a wheelie bin much smaller than the ones here, the big ones were for businesses, and we managed very well, having it emptied every 2 weeks, we were a family of 4 then.
Here in Norfolk, there's talk of charging to use the recycling centres, that'll encourage people won't it.

[FredPuli43]

Blimey, zebo, and how much cost and trouble will Norfolk be put to in responding to the extra fly-tipping in the fields around Acle, Dereham and other exotic spots?

[boxtops]

wouldn't work for us - we fill the respective recycling, rubbish, food waste and green recycling bins each fortnight.

[rockyracoon]

It would probably work okay for us as we are quite good recyclers, though if I had a baby I wouldn't be very happy about it, imagine 150+ soiled nappies basking in the summer sun.

[LazyGun]

Are nappies counted as "general household waste", and thus likely to be in that collection that is only envisioned once per month?

Anyway - shoo! - my US friends tell me Racoons should not be allowed any near the rubbish bins :)

[vulcan42]

The great problem with extended refuse collection is if, through illness, holidays etc, you miss the collection.Do you really want rubbish lying around for nearly two months?

[LazyGun]

That's a good point, Vulcan - but for me anyway, my general household waste is not perishable, or decomposable or prone to degradation; And the quantity I produce each month means it could probably quite easily wait 2-3 months if necessary.

Thats my experience though, and I accept it might be more of a problem for others, especially those in blocks of flats and suchlike.

[petal54]

am luckythat alot of our stuff is recyled,only put bin out 1's a month,but for many people this is not pos ifa larger family

[Peter Pedant]

Manc also

I regard rubbish collection like clean water as a basic human right.

much more important that Freebies for manc councillors
or subsidising art or museums.
or awaydays for manc councillors
or inflated expenses for manc councillors etc

[petal54]

you're not a manc by any chance Peter?

[TWR]

No, but they need to employ them half the time. O.G. Just return from QLD, Clollection is made by one Driver + Truck, the Plastic Bins are left on the Pavement Edge, the truck comes and Arm comes out of the truck side and empty's the bin, hows that for saving money?

[rockyracoon]

Lol LG. I like a rummage :)

Nappies at the moment are put in with non recyclables, collected once every two weeks here, the only bin that is collected once a week is food waste and garden waste which is put into the same green bin.

[mikey4444]

On the housing estate where I live, in South Wales, it is a mixture of private and council housing, none of which you could describe as posh in any way.

We have glass and newspapers ( green bags ) and kitchen waste on alternate weeks, with plastics ( pink bags) and unrecyclable waste ( black bags) on the other weeks. Only about 50% of households adhere to this.


The other 50% leave nothing out on green bags weeks, but leave about 10 black bags and no pink bags on the other weeks,.....ie they make no effort whatsoever to recycle anything. Most of them complain that they don't have enough black bags to last 2 weeks !

With ignorance like this, how are we going to stop filling our countryside up with spoil heaps ? It takes very little effort to put the right things into the right colour bag.

My local Council is now threatening to only accept a certain number of blacks bags per household, every other week, as from next April, and the local paper is full of whingeing residents complaining of "rubbish left festering in the streets"

Not sure what we can do with such idiots, and the Council has my every sympathy.

[Eve]

Ahh, maybe we need raccoons, they love rubbish! :) Nearly ended up with some round here after some idiot was keeping some as pets and they escaped! Manc Raccoons Peter?