So whose responsible for waste not been collected weekly ?

[gasbanni]

The Labour Party !!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...n-collection-by-councils-to-be-abolished.html


Bl00dy idiots

 

[ladylola]

This seems the most relevant paragraph
"Britain is the dustbin of Europe, throwing away more per household than any other country in the EU. We have to change radically the way that we get rid of our rubbish and the days of tipping everything into a hole in the ground are long gone."
I personally can't see a problem with restrictions on general waste that goes to landfill. We have a black bin for that and struggle to put anything in it as most stuff is recycled , indeed we requested an additional bin from the council for recyclables so that now , with another for garden waste, we have four .
Out of interest do you have a follow up article that shows figures for people being fined, fly tipping , bonfires and all the other consequences predicted?

 

[JBR]

The Labour Party !!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...n-collection-by-councils-to-be-abolished.html

Bl00dy idiots

The Labour party have a long history of doing what is not good for this country, yet they keep being voted back in time and time again.

So, bearing in mind that the evidence is there for all to see, whose fault is it really?

We get what we deserve.

 

[Whitespirit66]

Thought Eric Pickles said he was going to sort it.

Those politicians and their promises.

 

[ladylola]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-lose-service-despite-pledges-ministers.html

 

[JBR]

Rightly or wrongly, I am presuming that pursuing fly-tippers works out cheaper than providing weekly bin collections.

I wonder whether, if fly-tipping should increase, the opposite might become the case.

 

[ladylola]

My father worked for the council for many years on the waste side starting as a binman. Part of his work did involve clearing up fly tipping. It probably didn't incur any additional costs , the personnel were already being paid and the lorries were the councils so nothing extra save maybe for a few gallons of diesel. One thing they did was to look through the bags of rubbish and it was surprising how many people threw away correspondence with their names and addresses on and this was used for prosecutions. If this avenue was persued with a little more vigour the whole system may become self supporting with the fines

 

[JBR]

I assume that different councils have different ways of doing things.

Ours decided on our having four bins:

A green one for garden and food waste, the largest and collected weekly - and usually almost empty unless we have been doing some gardening.

A blue one for paper and card, middle-sized and collected fortnightly - usually less than half full.

A brown one for glass and plastic bottles (but not food containers!), middle-sized and collected monthly - usually quite full.

A black one for everything else, by far the smallest and collected fortnightly - invariably completely full and necessary to cram down the rubbish in order to close the lid (they won't take it if it is not fully closed).

Those are our findings anyway and similar to our neighbours', and that's recycling properly. I think the relative sizes of the bins is a political decision but clearly not related to practicalities.

 

[Whitespirit66]

Life used to be straightforward. Chuck your rubbish and ash in a metal bin and drag it to the pavement once a week. Two or three blokes in donkey jackets would spirit the garbage away. Now it's a major operation, requiring the sort of planning normally given to a military operation.


On bin(s) day, I look out at the fleet of monster sized trucks belching out fumes, and the accompanying hordes of orange men. Then, afterwards, as you walk up the road, you see the tin lids lying on the pavement, bits of newspaper blowing around, cardboard from the week before that escaped collection and is now a soggy mound plus the dead batteries squashed into the road by passing traffic.

Then I think to myself - at least we're doing it for the environment.

 

[EddieM]

6 year old article and a different government now. Still they're all as bad and ineffective as each other.

 

[ladylola]

Six year old article and I can't believe people are still moaning about it.