It used to be weekly. Recently it's been fortnightly. The gang said that it was because the amount of rubbish in the bins had reduced considerably in recent months and most bins were less than half full.
Hurrah!
Mary
Lucky you - I've had one collection in 3 months (or they may have managed it twice, I forget). My local refuse operatives have apparently, over the years, contrived to get householders to do half their job for them by way of depositing bin liners on the pavement, and I won't play ball with the lazy sods. (The council's stated policy is collection from bins easily accessed on premises).
If you won't play ball why should they ?
:-)
Mary
Deliver to reception of council offices?
You must be very gullible if you believe that.
I believe it because I've noticed that neoighbours haven't had bins overflowing with rubbish recently.
You have no reason not to believe it though :-)
Mary
It's not supposed to be a ball-game, more a supplier and customer thing.
[Don't worry, I noticed the smiley.]
They're not in when I'm in, sadly. I can manage, but I shouldn't have to. The service is paid for, under threat of prosecution, and not provided.
We have an excellent service, not everyone seems to be as fortunate.
Mary
So they're claiming that they're doing it to make supply meet demand, and less is obviously better in this case, but if the bins had been overflowing every week do you really think they'd come twice as often?
"Mary Fisher" wrote
We recently received notice of the Xmas collection times. Our 26th collection has been deferred to 3rd Jan. Therefore this will lead to 15 days between collections over busy Xmas period. "We" are a family of four who, recycling everthing possible and composting all kitchen waste, can just about manage on weekly collections. Rang the council to get the low-down on what to do with the extra week's rubbish. Took the girlie about an hour to discover that additional rubbish, properly bagged, will be removed along with wheelie bin contents. So why not tell us in the collection times notice?
Phil
(Fed-up-of-paying-more-for-lesser-service)
Increasingly common. I was told yesterday that the police in Northants will no longer attend alarm activations at domestic premises. I imagine their council tax has not decreased at all.
At lest if you paid the Mafia protection money, they came round once a week to collect it.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:55:49 -0000 someone who may be "Mary Fisher" wrote this:-
Good news indeed.
That can hardly be the case unless manufacturers are using less packaging and I don't think that's the case at all. We have a grey wheelie bin that's used for "general" rubbish, i.e., stuff that doesn't fall into one of the recycling categories, and that's emptied fortnightly.
On the weeks that alternate with that, our recycling stuff is collected and that consists of a brown wheelie bin for garden waste (grass, windfall fruits, twigs, dead flowers etc), a blue box with a yellow lid for cans, a blue box with a red lid for cardboard and plastic bottles, a blue box for glass bottles and a blue box for newspapers, phone directories, catalogues etc.
Because there's less garden waste in the winter months the council don't empty the brown wheelie bin between about October and February or March but everything else is still collected in it's fortnightly rotation - and people round here are still putting out as much as ever.
JellyBelly
Welcome to what the rest of the country is doing!
In our case, Bristol, we've been like this for *ages*.
When they first introduced it I was concerned that even with the 'compost' bin and recycle box they provided our main bin would be overflowing given the fortnightly collection. However, I'm happy to have been proven wrong - very wrong - indeed I now recycle
*considerably* more than I ever have done and it's thanks to this intiative forcing me to.Indeed, most of our road (including us) were moaning when they heard about the new plans but I think it's fair to say we're all actually quite pleased with the result.
I really don't know what the people on the news reports are moaning about... I can't see why people's main bins are overflowing and attracting vermin etc... presumably they are failing to recycle what they can, particularly as far as leftover/waste food is concerned.
Mathew
On 15 Dec 2006 06:42:52 -0800 someone who may be "Mathew Newton" wrote this:-
Indeed.
Glad to hear it.
That will probably produce a burst of fury from some people on this group, claiming that you are lying or don't know what you are talking about.
The rest of the country?
It's still weekly here.
I wonder why my post has engendered such negative responses :-)
Mary
It could be that people are beiing more conscientious about putting recyclable matter into the appropriate bin instead of idly shoving it all in one.
Ours is brown, that's the one which will now be collected fortnightly.
Our green (recycled paper, cardboard, plastics) is collected monthly.
Mary
Excellent!
People moan about ANY change. Think what they'd do if we reverted to the open cart and metal dustbins!
Our wheelie bins are vermin-proof. There should never be leftover food though. If there is, people are over-catering and wasting money.
Mary
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