Is This Acceptable In The 21St Century?

[vortex]

Four weekly refuse collections?

Surely,this cannot be right and will lead to our towns and cities more prone to an eyesore of litter?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4133946/Once-month-bin-collections-cause-stink.html

[ichkeria]

4-weekly collections are plainly ridiculous. I am not sure how that will help in meeting recycling targets. I suspect that has nothing to do with it, and it is simply a cost-cutting extercise full stop.

[ummmm]

In Ireland (Sligo anyway) if you wanted rubbish picked up you had to buy the bags. I'm not sure how much they cost but the cost of each bag covered collection. If not you have to go to the tip.

[youngmafbog]

I suspect you are right ich.

[ichkeria]

It's still the same amount of rubbish though, that is what I don't understand. Whether it is collected once a week, one a month or whenever

[ummmm]

Is the 4 weekly collection for areas that have wheelie bins?

[youngmafbog]

That is fine ummm so long as the portion of council tax currently used is refunded to enable this to happen.

[ummmm]

Agree.

I can't complain about our collection though as everything is collected weekly.

[Togo]

Correct Youngmafbog, but despite the EU levies on landfill, guess what, it is big business. A Long term business plan granted. The landfill sites are usually areas that are unsuitable for building or development, some are even places that have been gravel pits, quarries, clay pits, etc etc. Now when these landfill sites have been levelled or filled with this waste, using safe and controlled methods, the reclaimed land is usually worth a fortune. In this area I know of 4 such council tip locations that now house a football ground and coach park, and new school on one, a brand new industrial estate on another, a housing development that encompasses both social and private housing on yet another. My point here is, the Councils keep very quiet when this land is ultimately sold on. Where does this huge cash windfall go? Pension pots and staff pay doubt. It never finds it's way back into the "services" that generated it now does it. Whilst all this is happening of course the Councils pretend to be acting in our best interests as ever....... as if. The private companies can do the job at half the Council price, and make a damn good long term business plan work without the constant moaning, and virtue signalling political undertones, that are the Council stock in trade.

[vulcan42]

The problem with this is if you miss the collection, holiday or illness for example, it becomes an eight week period which is totally unacceptable.

[hereIam]

I live alone, so four weekly collections would probably not bother me, I often only put my black bin out four weekly anyway, BUT they are not a good idea for families or people who don't live alone and I think it's a daft idea !

[Togo]

The thing is Hereiam, you get by adequately with monthly collections, and that is good. Some families never will be able to, not because they are idle or wasteful, just cannot. So pressure may well force the Council to make frequent collections. Now you don't need them, but will pay the same as those who do. Another point, in Spain they make overnight waste collections 6 times a week. Our masters and betters have dismantled all the social gains made, mainly by the Victorians, in the name of ecology and economy. Public Lavatories, close them. Street Lighting, turn it off. Refuse collection, make it as expensive, time consuming, and as downright distasteful as possible. Every new edict issued by the Councils, coupled with ever more exciting and ingenious ways to fine and punish the people it is supposed to be providing services to, highlights further what they see as their main role in this shambles. Namely to line their own pockets whilst doing as little as possible for their ill gotten gains.

[hereIam]

Did you actually read my post Togo ??

[Togo]

Yes I did Heriam, and I fully sympathise with you. Why should you have to pay the same as households who need a weekly collection, in these times of economic restraint?

[Togo]

//Now you don't need them, but will pay the same as those who do. //

Ahh but did you read mine? (^_*)

[hereIam]

Nope, still not with you, but never mind.

[Canary42]

Brings a whole new meaning to "We're all in it together".

[mikey4444]

If a family "sorts the trash" as my American friends say, properly, there should be very little to go into a black bag. There should be food waste, for instance, as this should go into the proper recycling container.

Ditto with glass, cans, paper/cardboard, and most plastics

[Boto]

The 4 week rubbish collection is only in part of Conwy county, mine is collected every 3 weeks and there is very little in the bin. I could easily go another 3 weeks before it was full and there is nothing in it that would smell in hot weather. Recycling is collected every week, garden rubbish every 2 weeks, and separate arrangements can be made for nappies. Having said this I have no time for this wasteful council.

[jourdain2]

No, 4-weeklys are not acceptable. |Ourcollecions are fortnightly. A daily newspaper fills up a lot of our blue bin (paper, glass, plastic bottles and food containers) and, recycle as I will, it is invariably almost full. To have food waste hanging around is not acceptable - most garden waste goes on our compost heap.

[Boto]

In Conwy food waste is collected every week as is plastic, paper, glass, cans.