AIBU to want weekly rubbish collections during this hot weather?

Not at all

All you can smell is stinky bins, everywhere you do.

How often is your food waste collected as that's all I would expect to smell. Ours is weekly, general waste and recycling is fortnightly so we don't have a problem.

I buy wheelie bin liners, not overly expensive, think around £2.60 for 10 from Tesco which isn’t to bad and they keep my bin clean.

My bin went out today, fortnightly collection and TBH it doesn't smell, never normally does.

Are you willing to pay more council tax for that to happen though?

We still have weekly collections for general waste. Recycling is two weekly.

We still have weekly collections here but I quite often only have one bag of waste so I leave it until the next week. Not noticed my bin being particularly smelly or dirty.

Recycling and general waste bins are alternate weeks. Still waiting for the food recycling bins. Its being rolled out in my area but no idea when

Our food waste is collected weekly, recycling and general waste fortnightly.
We get the bin cleaning people in monthly, our bins sit down the side of our house and we noticed at times (before we had the bin cleaning people) that occasional bin wafts would make their way to us sitting in the garden!
I do notice a lot of bin smells when I’m out and about though; it can’t really be helped unless people that don’t want to pay to get them cleaned do so themselves and who has the inclination to do that regularly?

What are black and green? One general waste and one recycling presumably? Everywhere has different coloured bins...we don't know what your black bin is for!

Which is which ?
I do wish Local Authorities would standardise their bin colours and collection containers. We live in a popular coastal town, and have a blue wheely bin for recycling and a green one for general waste, collected on alternate weeks.

But most holiday makers staying here seem to assume that the green one must be for recycling (and the holiday let owners aren't telling them differently) with the result that we en up with loads of blue bins containing general waste that the binmen then refuse to take away, and they just stay there overflowing for weeks on end

I've just been dealing with my late mums estate down south, and they have a black bin for general waste, only collected every three weeks, and then a green box for paper and card, a green box for bottles, and a sack for plastic containers and tins collected fortnightly. Plus a smal lfood caddy for food waste collected weekly.

We now have weekly food bins which help but if you double bag there should be no issue with smells

my bin is cleaned every 6 weeks or so but to be honest as it’s in bags it doesn’t get that dirty now

Just put a glug of disinfectant and a kettle full of hot water in the dirty bin after it is emptied. Swill it round and empty into the gutter. Fresh bin at much less cost than a weekly collection.

Recycling and food waste weekly.
General rubbish collected every three weeks, it’s in bin bags, never smells and my wheelie bin doesn’t need cleaning.

Op the reason the council cut collections is down to costs, they don’t have the money to provide weekly collections, if you aren’t wanting to pay more in order to have weekly collections, then you are stuck with a longer gap between them being collected. Councils pay for people in nursing homes and towards foster carers, it’s not just rubbish collections their budget pays for.

My food waste is collected weekly, too, and the others fortnightly.

My rubbish and recycling doesn't smell, but I am very careful to make sure that tins etc are thoroughly rinsed out so that there's no food residue to get stinky.

Nappies do not go in the food waste. They smell even when bagged.

Yeah, it’s the nappies in this heat. Ours is every 3 weeks. It’s pretty bad 🤢

We are so fortunate in that all our waste is collected weekly. I can't imagine the kitchen waste being left longer than that. I had maggots a few weeks ago - I keep the food waste in the garage.

We don't put anything organic in our black bin (which is general rubbish). What are you putting in there that smells OP?

Food waste weekly. Other recycling fortnightly and land till fortnightly. I wash all packaging so it doesn't smell. Very occasionally we have a smelly bin but not regularly

Yes, all food waste goes in the food bin and that's emptied weekly. But we can keep ours outside. I guess they do smell if you have to keep them inside?

Ours is fine as food waste is collected weekly. Rubbish is every three weeks and recycling weekly. I wash all the recycling so it doesn’t smell and we generally don’t have a full rubbish bin.

But there simply aren't enough enough funds available for most Councils to do that now. So if you don't want to pay more Council tax, where do you want rhe Council to take money from? Schools? Looked After Children?Libraries? Adult Social Care?