AIBU to want weekly rubbish collections during this hot weather?

Yabu, or at least your council are for not recycling more.

our black bags are collected every 3 weeks and limited to 3 per household but tbh as we can recycle so much, we tend to only have 1 non smelly bag to put out each time.

we have food waste collected weekly, as well as separate paper, cardboard, glass, soft plastics and cans/platics. We rinse everything out and nothing smells at all.

I’m often surprised when we’re in other parts of the uk how poor the recycling provision is.

Exactly. No money available. In Devon, for example, 80% of the budget is spent on adult social care and children’s services.

My bin was disgusting today I have cats but their waste is double bagged we have no food waste collection im guessing thats where the smell came from this week i threw out food from my old freezer before I got rid of it I dont find a wheelie bin liner makes much difference it just provides an extra layer for sweating to happen

Oh dear that’s not good. So your food waste is collected fortnightly? Yes, that must stink and it attracts lots of flies.

We’re fortunate, our food waste is collected weekly. General waste and Recycling alternate weeks, but as there’s no food in either of these there’s no smell. Cardboard collected fortnightly too.

It’s definitely the food. Before we had a separate food waste collection, it all went into the general bin, when summer came the maggots came. It was awful.

Our weekly food waste collection has been a godsend and haven’t seen a maggot in years!

Our food waste is collected 4 weekly. Invariably there is maggots at this time of year. It’s alright for me as I live in the middle of nowhere so leave the bin 100m down the drive. The council complains that people still put food scraps in general waste which is emptied fortnightly. I think if you want people to seperate food waste you generally need to have more frequent collections.

I don’t think general waste bin/ recycling bin smells really, I remember having three in nappies though and that bin reeked constantly in summer .

I hate the fortnightly collection. I walked around today and the streets stank. You always get people saying ‘oh but I struggle to fill even a quarter of a black bin, even once a month would be fine’. Meanwhile those of us with cats, dogs and babies have bins full of shit.

No, Many places do more often than that. And we used to. Weekly collections, picking up whatever is left, would also stop most fly-tipping.
I wouldn't go quite so far as the poster who says she'll vote anyone from Green to Reform if they bring back weekly collections, but I get why a lot of people say that (still won't vote either, though!)

That’s ridiculous. What is the point in 4 weekly food waste collections? Not surprised that smells or gets maggots.

Food waste and recycling (and most stuff is recyclable here) weekly. General waste 3 weekly but that rarely smells and I sometimes only put it out every 6 weeks. If you have children in nappies I can see it might be a problem here but that’s about it.

I think when food waste was introduced in my area it was just tagged onto garden waste so rather than little food waste bins that I see in other areas we have these 240l wheelie bins that you you can also bung garden waste in (if you pay for it). It feels a bit ridiculous putting it out maybe a 1/16 full after four weeks it’s just peelings, skins, bones and eggshells. Definitely stinky though.

Recycling is four weekly as well so I have 4 * 240l bins just for recycling then the general waste bins is 140l.

I live rurally so doesn’t bother me but I feel quite sorry for people whose small front yard is taken up by a plethora of enormous bins.

I used to tip solid nappy waste down the loo, definitely reduced the bin smells from nappies.