Weekly Bin collections will NOT return

[Gromit]

Government U-Turn of the day, and breaking an election pledge, the Government has decided that the fortnightly collection will stay.

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?

[mike11111]

I am in the unfortunate position of having my bins emptied once a week (under a Tory mayor, too)

[jno]

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.

[berniecuddles]

just love my council (dartford) get a letter few months ago about putting our bins out in the right place for the dustman to collect, when they have emptied them they leave em half way down the street Salad Chefs!!

[berniecuddles]

salad chiefs lol t- o-s-s-e-r-s-!!please

[redman41]

We should be recycling more and more rather than dump everything in landfill sites.

[R1Geezer]

I don't understand this, mine are collected weekly as it is, always have been.

[cc1]

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.

[cazzz1975]

I agree with helen, one thing that fortnightly collections does is encourage recycling, which we should all be doing.

[Euphemia]

We have a weekly collection but could probably make do with a fortnightly one as we do recycle a lot.

[vulcan]

The problem with fortnightly collection is if you miss one. I live on my own and leave out the bin once a month but recently I was sick and couldn't leave it out and the bin wasn't emptied for six weeks.

[emmie]

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.

[cazzz1975]

it may take a few years before the system is working properly em, but encouraging people to be mindful about their waste is good, they are also trying to get manufacturers to cut down on the amount of packaging used as well. I see all this as very positive

[pastafreak]

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.

[annie0000]

We are a family of 4 and I don't even fill my general waste bin in a fortnight anymore. The majority of the recycling is collected on a weekly basis and the garden waste and cardboard every alternate fortnight. It's not that hard and you get used to it pretty quickly.

[Gromit]

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

[emmie]

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.

[Gromit]

Wrong link. Here is the CORRECT bin collection link

http://www.telegraph....y-council-revolt.html

[annie0000]

our council here:

http://www.stirling.g...d&utm_medium=facebook

[R1Geezer]

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.