Council to reduce recycling collections to every three weeks

All of ours are 4 weekly here and have been for years except garden/food waste which is fortnightly. We're a family of 4 including 1 in nappies and get by though it's especially difficult around Christmas when they skip some collections altogether so you have to wait 8 weeks at a time when you've more rubbish than ever!

We don’t have much recycling or rubbish now, just DH and me. The shared houses our DDs are in, Uni cities, though there’s clearly more. It’s visible with overflowing bins. One city doesn’t do food waste so that goes in the black bins.

Ours is currently recycling and food waste weekly and the black bin every 3 weeks.

Would be good if the supermarkets were held to account re packaging.

Because people would put dog 💩💩 in them. Awful for the sorters.

Ours is 4 weekly. Only way our family of 5 manage is by washing and crushing each and every single bit of recycling. Every paper is torn up and every bottle is squashed completely flat. It is doable if you go the extra mile.

General waste which includes food (because they don't have that separate yet) is fortnightly and paper/cardboard is collected every 4 weeks and plastic /metal is 4 weeks too.

And glass needs to be taken to either the town tip or to the one set of glass banks in the centre of the small town.

It'd be nice if we got a discount for the reduced services provided!

They want you anxious and worrying about bin day as an anxious population is easier to control.

Our council did the same few years ago - our "big" bin for a family of 5 with 3 week collections is actually a normal bin in most places and the size we had prior.

It had meant for years though anything that might be taken for recycling is put out for it - so suppose that will increase curb side collection though perhaps not item compliance. We at hover at 67% recycling at our council and have to reach 70% to avoid fines by next year from welsh government.

We only get monthly recycling collections and we have to separate them out into glass, metal, cardboard etc.

yeah, i live in medway Kent

We’re on a junction and have bags because the council deems it not safe for pedestrians to pull wheelie bins out on to the pavement. Our rubbish is collected from the gardens (just like in pre-wheelie-bin days)

Ours is recycling every two weeks and the alternate week is black bin but the council introduced " slim bins" a few years ago half the size of normal black bins" 🙄

It would be fine if you knew it was there when you bought the house
once it is implemented - fine, people know it is there
But if you got a letter tomorrow saying one is getting put in front of your house can you really say you would be happy or would you be complaining 'that is not the best place for it'.

If there were 2 houses for sale in a street once with a rubbish tip outside and one without, I know which one I would buy.

Perhaps it may make people more selective of what they recycle
People put a lot of things in re-cycling what shouldn't such as wet carboard
food packaging with residual fat/food on them, paper that is shiny / glittery.

If people are filling a recycling bin in 2 weeks I think they need to look at what they are putting in it and/or stop ordering as much stuff from amazon (which is also not good for the environment)

Our food waste is weekly - we'd struggle if that was reduced due to maggots. Our general waste is every two weeks - I'd want that to stay the same as it can get smelly if left for a long time. Our recycling is every 2 weeks, we could probably cope with 3/4 weeks on that as it's all washed and clean.

But I'd worry about what this would mean more generally - would we have more smelly bins in the borough, more fly tipping, rats and foxes etc. not everyone separates or wages their recycling out properly, or has enough space for it.

Visions of chem trails and 5g stuff coming off that.

We fill our small recycling bins in a fortnight and there are only two of us. if we went to three weeks, anything that didn't fit in would just go in general bin. I'm not adding an additional trip to somewhere to do recycling.

Meh our bin men are still striking. Since Christmas and ongoing. We never know what bin is going to be collected or when.

I wouldn't give a toss about 3 weekly recycling if I'm honest. It's 2 weekly for both bins when they work properly.

Knickerless - this is ok unless you live near these bins. Glass recycling is really noisy and recycling points always get stuff dumped around them

It works in other places.

We really need to put up with a bit of discomfort to save the planet and to reduce council spending so they can look after their other obligations, such as care.
Either that or we need to pay more tax - locally and nationally.

We are so lucky ours is weekly with everything at the moment

We also do food waste which makes less in general bin.

I also take soft plastics to Tesco to recycle

We have had 3 week cycle for general waste for about 10 years, recycling on two week cycle, food/garden waste every week. The general waste bin is always overfull and I sneak bags into other people's bins when they're on the kerb.

Only need to put the recycling out every 4 weeks.

It's not great but we're used to it now.

@CrunchyCarrot well obviously there are people that have to confirm because of disability.

I'm talking about all the mindless people that follow orders from the council without question.

Two week cycle here - one week all food and non-recyclable waste, the next recycling. No sign of a change in routine here.

@DrJoanAllenby
I will not be made to put this bag out and that bag out on certain days as I am not one of the stupid sheeple who blindly follow orders.

Would you rather have chaos with no designated days? Some of us are house-bound and can't just put rubbish in shop/motorway bins.

It's all a massive con. I remove all excess packaging after shopping and give it to the store to dispose of.

When I return to a shop I deposit a bag of rubbish in their bin at the entrance and in between I take a carrier bags worth of rubbish out several times in the week and put it in a motorway services bin that I regularly pass.

The council are corrupt and inefficient and I will not be made to put this bag out and that bag out on certain days as I am not one of the stupid sheeple who blindly follow orders.

I did some temping for a waste deposal company in different part of UK about 10 years ago and they had regulations that it was only full time household of 6 who were eligible for bigger bin and they were monitored for weeks as part of a process to get one - so step kids p/t or other p/t weren't enough even if it really pushed numbers in house up.

I was so pleased when I read the details here that families of 5 could just get a bigger bin. They just had to have permission to check their records about how many people lived here to verify - or some other longer process I didn't bother with.

It’s 3 weeks here and that’s fine even though we have 3dc. Weekly recycling is an issue because our box for that isn’t quite big enough. Lots of squeezing things down and occasional trips to the tip but general waste is fine as most can be recycled here.