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How Will Fewer Collections Reduce Rubbish?
Surely the total amount will be the same.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.13:33 that's another issue, the councils have different ways of doing it. They should standardise. We have a small bin and a big bin, anything recyclable goes in the big bin, the rest goes in the small bin. In our case the small bin is usually full after a fortnight there's no way it would last a month and it's just the 2 of us here. A family would generate much more waste.
We don't have a food waste bin at the moment, we have weekly black bin collections. That's going to change in 2027 when we will have weekly food bin collections and fortnightly black bin collections. I believe every council in England must provide food waste bins by then.
I know Bristol council does collect the food waste bins weekly and will continue to do so
Each of our bins are collected every 3 weeks, with the exception of brown which is fortnightly.
Brown bin is for food waste, plus garden rubbish if you pay an annual fee.
Black bin sometimes has the lid open a bit, fortunately still gets emptied.
It's easy when it's a small household to sort out the contents for each bin, but I'd imagine not quite so much if it's a family of 3, 4 or 5 adults.
I will give my council credit where it's due. We have 3 large bins, black general refuse, Blue all recyclable Brown food and garden. Black and Brown (seperate vehicles) one week, Blue following week. If the three bins are too big to store or for a single person, they can change, at no extra cost, to bins that are the same height but half the width of a normal bin. It seems to work very well but wouldn't if my council followed Bristols plan.
As j yook an Amazon delivery yesterday, I was thinking exactly the same as Atheist...wouldn't it be nice if they took it back.
What with bad weather,and age related stiff joints etc, I'm ordering more and more from Amazon. In my block of maisonettes there is a single large bin for recycling...it has a ridiculously small opening and is usually atheist back of yhe rubbish storeroom. Very difficult to reach and I can't fold cardboard small enough. I hate to say it but I've pretty much given up on using the designated bin.
//Disgusting. It's not about 'green' - it's about saving money. Those bins will be running alive with maggots in the summer.//
It IS about Green, we have a Green council In Bristol and it is clear in their consultation document, as I posted, the aims are Green. Saving money as they own the Bristol Waste company, but it is not the priority.
There won't be maggots as we have food recycling collected weekly. There will be fly tipping though, there already is as we have the worst rubbish collection service, some areas have no had a collection since Christmas
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