Black Bins may be emptied monthly......................in BRISTOL

[Windswept]

3 hours ago, oowee said:

Same here just two of us with a small black wheelie bin. 90% of stuff goes in recycling. 

We used to be similar, only a small black bag a month, or less. 

Until the council stopped collecting the recycling so now everything goes to landfill. And even that they make that very difficult, I'd welcome a once a month collection.

Edited November 16 by Windswept

[mel b3]

1 hour ago, ShootingEgg said:

Which has been shown to create even worse pollution than C02. 

Yep 👍.

[oowee]

20 minutes ago, Windswept said:

We used to be similar, only a small black bag a month, or less. 

Until the council stopped collecting the recycling so now everything goes to landfill. And even that they make that very difficult, I'd welcome a once a month collection.

Crikey that's carp. I thought Devon had similar recycling for households as elsewhere?

[mel b3]

20 minutes ago, Windswept said:

We used to be similar, only a small black bag a month, or less. 

Until the council stopped collecting the recycling so now everything goes to landfill. And even that they make that very difficult, I'd welcome a once a month collection.

My stepson and his partner live in Liverpool. They haven't had a recycling collection for the two years that they've lived in their house .

[TIGHTCHOKE]

12 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

My stepson and his partner live in Liverpool. They haven't had a recycling collection for the two years that they've lived in their house .

Where do they dump it?

Or do they bring it down to you?

[mel b3]

1 minute ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Where do they dump it?

Or do they bring it down to you?

They put it in with the refuse . In fairness , they're real greenies , and generate very little waste of any kind , but , many of the neighbours just leave their waste overflowing into the street.

I found it quite shocking when I first saw it , but over recent months , I've seen similar stories all around the country.

[Windswept]

21 hours ago, oowee said:

Crikey that's carp. I thought Devon had similar recycling for households as elsewhere?

It's down to the district councils and ours seems to be rather poor. They don't seem to have heard of wheelie bins so rubbish is still put in plastic sacks which have to be put out before 6am for all the animals to rip open and leave the streets covered in litter. Where they do collect the recycling it's collected in bags or plastic crates which often blow over and spread more litter about the streets.

They didn't collect recycling when we moved in but did for a while after we chased them. Then stopped collecting it again because their new vehicles are too big for the road. It's now very hard to recycle as most of the bottle banks etc have been removed.

What makes it worse is we pay a large amount of council tax and it's likely to rise significantly whilst we get nothing in return.

My mum's council is much better, just two wheelie bins, one for rubbish and one for all recycling.

[London Best]

13 minutes ago, Windswept said:

It's down to the district councils and ours seems to be rather poor. They don't seem to have heard of wheelie bins so rubbish is still put in plastic sacks which have to be put out before 6am for all the animals to rip open and leave the streets covered in litter. 

We don’t need animals to spread litter here. 
The bin men make a terrible mess of the place every weekX sorry fortnight.

[countryman]

I’ve noticed all the bottle banks have disappeared from my village and local town , judging by the amount of bottles you used to see piled up outside the full bin not sure where they will end up now.

[mel b3]

1 hour ago, countryman said:

I’ve noticed all the bottle banks have disappeared from my village and local town , judging by the amount of bottles you used to see piled up outside the full bin not sure where they will end up now.

The local authority that I work for have got rid of all the bottle banks now . It's just down to cost . Not the cost of emptying the bottle banks , its the cost of having to clear the sites every day .

Once one person dumps a bag of bottles or cans on the floor , because they can't be bothered to put them into the skip, pretty much everyone else just dumps their bags of bottles and cans on the ever growing pile , because they think the bottle/can bank is full.

I've pulled up to take the bottle banks away , and theirs been several tons of broken glass around the empty bin . 

The bins quite often attract fly tipping as well . Ive regularly got to the bottle banks , and found a complete house clearence , dumped around them.

It's a real shame , as they were a fantastic way of recycling,  but as with many things in life , it only takes a couple of people to spoil it for everyone.

The official line at my local authority,  is that everyone has a free recycling collection at home now ( and theyll collect any amount of recycling) , but the real reason,  is what I've typed above.

Edited to add.

The clothing banks are run by private companies , and my council made them remove them from council land , for the same reason as above.   You still get them on supermarket carparks,  but the supermarket then get to pay the costs of removing the fly tipping that they attract , and the cost can be eye watering. 

Edited November 17 by mel b3

[Penelope]

On 16/11/2024 at 13:13, ditchman said:

i generate a very small ammount of rubbish and i already do this...i put my bins out once/mth for emptying

I have fortnightly collections for general and recyclable waste, but I produce very little waste I generally only have to put each bin out once a month.

Whereas that suits me, it would and does not suit a full household.