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?

[cazzz1975]

In fairness though em there has been a lot of flip flapping about recycling/rubbish collections countrywide, I would imagine this which would have an effect on improving the service. they should set it in stone and stick with it now imo

[ummmm]

Ours has just changed. We used to have the black bags collected weekly. One week paper would go out....the next week cans and plastics....once a month glass would go out.

As of Wednesday just gone....everything goes out every week. Now they have even included clothes (to be put in a white bag) and food waste.

the only thing that can't go out every week is garden waste.

I think putting it all out weekly encourages more re-cycling. I have often put things into the bin because the re-cycling boxes are full. There will be no need for that anymore :-)

[jno]

we have a big wheelie bin for general rubbish, a small one for garden and food waste/cardboard, and two crates, one for bottles, one for papers and magazines. All are collected weekly but they are planning to go fortnightly with the big bins. Five years ago it wouldn't have worked, but it will now.

Big stuff (beds and so on) can be a problem as the council only does limited collection; but if you leave it on the pavement it will vanish within an hour.

[boxtops]

We've always had a weekly collection of household waste, with recycling collections every fortnight too, so this is going to make no difference to us.

[Sqad]

In Menorca there are no bins for each household......dust bins for a dozen or so villas are placed at about 100metres apart to which each household deposits the packed rubbish which is collected DAILY

Bottles, plastic and paper is deposited in separate receivers which are collected on ALT DAYS............the reception banks being about 1 klm apart.

Good rubbish, if sacked is collected weekly.

This regime works well and the island is relatively tidy.

[pastafreak]

I've just looked on my council website-and it looks as if fortnightly is starting in Jan 2011. I am still wondering how the lack of storage provided by our building management will be affected. There are too many lazy people who do not even bother to put rubbish in the locked bin store.
This will be fun....

[Sqad]

LOL...Should have said..."garden rubbish".....rather than "Good rubbish"

[anotheoldgit]

Perhaps those who gloat over the Tories broken manifesto pledges, might care to read this?

http://www.telegraph....anifesto-pledges.html

[jno]

ah, a little bit of history! You'd think David Cameron would have read this and learnt from it, but no.

[Gromit]

I totally agree with you AOG, the last Labour Government failed to deliver on election pledges, and look what happened to them - the electorate dumped them at the earliest possible opportunity.

It is for that reason, it is important to highlight when a U-Turn takes place or an election pledge is broken.

Personally, I am in favour of most of the U-Turns so far, particular the NHS one.

[rov1100]

If only for the sake of the planet more people kept pigs in their back gardens. This would do away completely with the emptying of food waste by the council.

[emmie]

our asian neighbours might have something to say about that.

[Dodger666]

If Caroline Spelman gets her way we will all be having a slop bin to add to all the other bins we have to find room for.

http://www.dailymail....ycle-food-scraps.html

Bringing back the war time pig bins?