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[Nickbat]

My bin gets emptied once a week, but that is about to stop as Councils are ordered to save £550m from their waste disposal budgets. But is it really about saving money...or avoiding EU fines? And how much will it cost to reduce the landfill amount by 2.4m tonnes?

I recycle a lot, and I'm all for it. What I am very much against is EU interference in domestic policies. This is all the more irksome when this fact is hidden from the public.

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/saving-money.html

     

[Marks DTM Calib]

We have had fortnightly bin collections for years, not had any issues with it to be honest

[Nickbat]

We have had fortnightly bin collections for years, not had any issues with it to be honest

I think I could manage easily with fortnightly collections but I'd rather it was a decision taken by locally-elected councillors, not unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. That's my beef with this.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Well I guess given how long our fortnightly collections have been in place then it would have been a local decision.

[Nickbat]

Well I guess given how long our fortnightly collections have been in place then it would have been a local decision.

Yes, it would have been. What do you do about food waste, though? Is that recycled?

[TheBoy]

Been fortnightly (well, normal rubbish one week, compostable the next) since 2001.  We found it takes a bit of getting used to, but works OK. The thing we had to get used to was wrapping up a chicken carcass to prevent maggots etc.

Helps if you get on with your neighbours, as if you're on hols and miss a week, it can be up to a month between bin collections otherwise.

Even those with families around here don't struggle to fit it all in, as you soon get more into the recycling aspect - though initially some people think they are somehow above having to do this.

Over Christmas, they suspend the compostable (cardboard/veggie peelings/grass cuttings etc) and do normal rubbish for 2 or 3 consecutive weeks.



Personally, I like the scheme they have here.

[TheBoy]

Well I guess given how long our fortnightly collections have been in place then it would have been a local decision.

Yes, it would have been. What do you do about food waste, though? Is that recycled?

For us in South Northants, food waste goes in our 'compostable' bin, but as said previously, we wrap up certain things (the council gave me a load of compostable bags when I complained ).  christmas turkey ended up (wrapped in a couple of tesco bags) in normal bin

[Nickbat]

Just thinking that I could always get some chickens to eat the food waste and get some free eggs at the same time. Don't know if the neighbours would appreciate the early morning wake-up call though.  .

[Nickbat]

..and, of course, we must all do our bit to save the councils money.....

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/159402/15-pay-rise-for-council-bosses

[Marks DTM Calib]

Well I guess given how long our fortnightly collections have been in place then it would have been a local decision.

Yes, it would have been. What do you do about food waste, though? Is that recycled?

No, not yet.

We have

Green bin - garden waste
Blue Bin - Recyclables - Plastic (yes most plastic!), cans cardboard, tetra packs etc.
Grey bin - Domestic waste

We do have to take glass to the recycling point ourself but thats no big issue as they have them at all the supermarkets.

[Varche]

Just thinking that I could always get some chickens to eat the food waste and get some free eggs at the same time. Don't know if the neighbours would appreciate the early morning wake-up call though.  .

Get some. Hens don't make noise. Very easy to look after, fun for the kids and you get quality eggs not the battery rubbish in the shops. However don't get a cockerel Unless you want to try and hatch some eggs) as they do make real noise. You will never look back.

[TheBoy]

Well I guess given how long our fortnightly collections have been in place then it would have been a local decision.

Yes, it would have been. What do you do about food waste, though? Is that recycled?

No, not yet.

We have

Green bin - garden waste
Blue Bin - Recyclables - Plastic (yes most plastic!), cans cardboard, tetra packs etc.
Grey bin - Domestic waste

We do have to take glass to the recycling point ourself but thats no big issue as they have them at all the supermarkets.

We have:
Black bin - normal landfill
Green bin - compostable (garden waste (but not wood or thicker branches),cardboard,shredded paper)
Green basket - Glass
Black basket - plastics and tins

(may have got the baskets slightly wrong, they are her domain )

[Banjax]

you must be the last part of the UK not to be fortnightly Nick - I thought everyone was - makes no difference aside from reducing waste 

[Chris_H]

Here we have green bins (food waste and garden compostables) collected weekly.

General household waste in black bins collected fortnightly but alternating with [blue box (glass and cans) and clear bags (paper and plastics)].

Fortunately we can print out the collection weeks off the council's website if we lost the leaflet they delivered.  Having said that I just looked for it and couldn't find it there was so much 'stuff' on the website!

[TheBoy]

Here we have green bins (food waste and garden compostables) collected weekly.

General household waste in black bins collected fortnightly but alternating with [blue box (glass and cans) and clear bags (paper and plastics)].

Fortunately we can print out the collection weeks off the council's website if we lost the leaflet they delivered.  Having said that I just looked for it and couldn't find it there was so much 'stuff' on the website!

I always look what colour all the neighbours have put out