to be a bit pissed off that after all the cuts, £250,000,000 has been 'found' for weekly bin collections?

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Correct me if I'm wrong but after all these cuts to services and people losing their jobs, I believe the government has decided to make changes to the minor Inconvenience that is fornightly bin collections?

Yes, it is a bit of a pain in the arse but I don't see how its the most important thing in thw world and I'm guessing people are pretty use to it.

I just wonder if people are feeling like me, AIBU?

Human right, my hairy arse! It belittles the entire concept of 'human rights' to suggest that we all really need weekly rubbish collections, rather than a functioning health service, effective education, support for people who really need it in our society.

And I'm extremely pissed off about how this throws the efforts of most of this country back in our faces. For the last few years, we've all been coping perfectly well with fortnightly landfill collections. Most people have complied and sorted their refuse out. Some of them might even have reconsidered how much unneccessary packaging we all use. And now it's been reversed. People like my FIL, who deeply resents being asked to sort his rubbish (and refuses to use the recycling bin, ever), will be rubbing his hands with 'I told you so!' glee.

onagar, when I order a book from Amazon it comes wrapped in a single layer of cardboard, which goes in my cardboard recycling

So that won't be adding to your wheelie bin. Happy days!

I believe you can also compost it, should you be that way inclined.

I was apprehensive when we switched from weekly to fortnightly wheelie bin collections,as our bin was always bursting at the seams after one week. however, by recyling a lot more we manage just fine on a fornightly collection (there are 5 of us), so it obviously works. the only problem is that we live in a flat so not much room for bottles/cans/carboard to stack up so we have to take it to the recycling centre regularly which cost us petrol money, and would be impossible without a car.

YANBU the fortnightly collection is more than sufficient. You just have to recycle more, simples :)

Our recycling is picked up every week. This includes food waste, paper, tins, some plastics, cardboard, tin foil as well as other things like clothes, shoes and car batteries.
Our general waste is picked up every fortnight and we have a black wheelie bin for that.
Because of how much is put in recycled then our family of 7 only fills 1 wheely bin with general waste per fortnight.

Amazon alone makes having a cardboard recycling bin worthwhile!

YANBU - I'll be complaining if they go back to weekly collections. Especially as over the past 12 months so many colleagues have taken redundancy, or retired and their posts haven't been filled.

We currently have alternate weekly collections of general waste and recycling (one slim bin for plastic, tins & glass.) The garden/food waste is collected fortnightly and the paper/cardboard/tetrapacs are collected monthly.

Our recycling bin is always full after 2 weeks. The general waste is about 3/4 full. At the moment the paper waste is the hardest one to manage we seem to have a lot of cardboard packaging. I send it to school with DD, but we just get it back painted. :)

When we had weekly collections the recycling waste was collected monthly and we'd usually have about 3 extra bin bags by that point.

You are all very smug about your fantastic recycling facilities.

I would struggle with weekly collections, I only fill my bin 3/4 in a fortnight as I do alot of recycling.

I recycle everything from food waste to plastic waste

Ooooh, MillyR, I moved out of S Oxfordshire (apparently the best recycling in the country, it says upthread) where they took everything recyclable in one box and sorted it themselves; to a new council where the policy was, 'Lucky you, you can recycle paper. Here is your paper bin.'

Five years later, they are catching up, but we were a bit and for a while.

Couldn't have put it better myself Riveninabingle.

YANBU

We have weekly recycling collections and fortnightly landfill collections and it works for most people. Its made most people I know think more about what they buy in terms of packaging and what they throw out so are more likely to recycle it either via the recycling waste or taking it to charity shops rather than just bin it.

There are loads of things that our council do that I would rather they cut to put the money into other things, such as watering the flowerbaskets on lamposts every morning even though its been raining all night and the street cleaners that I see at 6:30 every morning in the city centre cleaning up cigarette butts and other crap generated by clubs and bars the night before.

The money could go to better use I'm sure!

Boulevard, at one point my solution was to take my rubbish into work with me, as I worked in a different local authority that actually has proper recycling facilities.

YANBU I'm so very

I had 3 babies in nappies at once and managed perfectly well fortnightly.

So basically we're having our local library hours cut and have lost our librarian because the Tories want to creep up to people who can't be asked to recycle.

It really bugs me that when they want it the Tories find cash to boost their votes eg the married tax allowance they bang on about,hardly needed but will keep their voters happy so they'll find the cash.WFA for many wealthy pensioners ie Tory voters. Now this So we loose CB but there is cash for the above.

Makes you wonder who much of all these cuts are actually necessary.

Sorry,quite a few typos in there .

Another one here who thinks this is is v silly plan in the light of all the other vastly more important things the money should be spent on.

By the way, the Daily Mail is being a bit unfairly blamed here - I couldn't find any reference on its website to this at all. It doesn't actually appear to care about this policy announcement at all.

Clearly, if the policy announcement was designed to appeal to Daily Mail readers it's kind of failed there, as if it's so unappealing to Daily Mail writers they don't even report it, it's a bit of a waste of a 250 mn pound bribe. :)

I read the Daily Mail and I recycle (at my own expense) and am happy with fortnightly bins. am I a freak??

I wouldn't mind the married man's allowance thing back. They took away my £44 tax credit i April which amounted to the same amount my DH received before then. I could do with the extra cash as we all could.

Not everyone who votes Tory is particularly well off and TBH I don't think there is much to chose between the parties at this point in time but that is for another thread

DO ya think Labour will be any better Riv? I am losing the will to live over this lot- all of them (Obv. Tories more mind, naturally)

They have not released policies yet, we shall see. Not cancelled my membership but starting to wonder if any party gives a damn about what happens to ds3.

Personally think they should move to monthly for non recyclable waste - not back to weekly! We are a family of six, and I often only put our grey bin out every month, it's often not full then - the recycling bins are full to bursting.

WRT to disabled people, I did wonder whether Miliband's vague waffling about giving more to get more re: benefits would mean an improvement for disabled people and carers. Probably wistful thinking though...