Monthly bin collections is a FAB idea

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There is outrage over this on LBC. But I think its a really good idea, I remember the same outrage when they went to fortnightly.

We're a family of 4, we recycle, compost and avoid buying over packaged stuff and anything in plastic (especially veg and fruit!). As a result the bin only goes out once a month and often isn't full. If you don't have a garden then a weekly food collection pickup is available.

I see other people with only one or two people in their house and every other week their green wheelie is bursting. I know from times they have used ours that they put alot of food waste and packaging in the bin. We are rather wasteful in this country compared to just about every other European county.

and every time I go to the tip I get a puncture in my tyre costing me either £80 to replace or £20 to repair so no way am I schlepping there either!

Councils who do this provide sacks for weekly nappy collections

Not where I am. Would never happen either.

We don't use ready meals, but we still have lots of packaging. Thats not what most peoples trash is from. We have black bins every other week, alternating with brown bin and green bin. This suits perfectly, and we pay privately for it anyway.

Yeah, it's a fab idea, if I get a fucking refund on my council tax. Thought not.

I hate recycling and wouldn't do it unless forced so I see the logic. I'll still hate it though.

However disposing of waste is becoming ridiculous, it really is. Yes day to day you can cope with this but we've just had building work done and the organisation and accumulation of waste is incredible. We've now had 4 skips and our own household rubbish has been mixed up amongst everything else in a garden that looks like step toe and son. All of the new kitchen was packaged to the hilt (as you'd expect i guess) and getting rid of it has been traumatic. In less one off scenarios you these odd occasions which makes rubbish "difficult" - parties, Christmas, a big clear out. It's a pain

I haven't RTFT but you sound bonkers OP. What the actual fuck!!
So you want us to go back to the fucking slum times as the rot sets on the bins all over my street?
No thanks.
FUCKING Tories keep taking money from tax payer but keep robbing us of all the things this money is promised to bring us. I am voting Labour just to spite them now.
for you OP

It's not exactly hard to recycle but it is hard to br picky about the packaging your food comes in when you have to pick the cheapest option...
DD was in cloth nappies, the nappy liner wasn't flushable. Imagine the bag full of literal shit rotting there for a month, no thanks.

How does "nappies every week, bins once a month" actually work, WellErr? Am I missing something, or does your county actually do a special collection for nappy bins?

You get a thick yellow sack for nappies which gets collected each week.

And how is that more economical than simply collecting the main bins weekly? confused

Because it's only nappies.

Everyone I know baulked at the change (me included!), but it really does work. Recycling rates have increased enormously in our county.
I can't actually believe that anywhere still has weekly collections.

I hate recycling and wouldn't do it unless forced

What a shitty attitude.

Unfortunately you're not alone, which is why monthly collections are necessary. You'd bloody well have to recycle then.

We are fortnightly wheelie bin collections with weekly food waste and recycling collections here. About to change to three weeks for wheelie bin collections.

I think it is completely doable. My bin is rarely over half full after 2 weeks. I recycle a lot. For those with babies in nappies, the council gives out stickers so that you are allowed extra bags to go out, not sure if this happens in every area.

Also with food packaging, most of it can be recycled. A friend of mine who lived in a caravan with no rubbish collection at all used to unpack all her fruit/veg etc at the check out and leave them the packaging so that she didn't have to get rid of it. If enough people did that supermarkets might start to rethink how they package things!

We are still on weekly bin days here and tbh I live in a terrace and only get bags not wheels bins as we live off the road in a side street. If they did fortnightly or even monthly I am not sure where I would store the bin bags.
I just wish our recycling was weekly though as that is an even bigger PITA as it is fortnightly.

There used to be shops in Britain where you could buy stuff directly using containers you could bring from home, or clear plastic bags. They sold themselves in terms of cheapness. As people got richer, they no longer had enough trade.

Of course its not FAB for everyone! BTW you didnt answer the questions in your OP you gushed on about how it works for YOU.

We only have black bins for general rubbish and blue bins for recycling paper, card, plastic and tins. Nothing else. And once a fortnight is bad enough! No way would they last a month. Sometimes if I put out exta bags of recycling or general waste it will be put in the lorry other times is isnt!

We have a recycling centre which we use but you cant take the stuff that would go in the blue bin down in one bag, there is only a cardboard bin and glass banks, the rest just goes in the general waste which kind of defeats the purpose.

A relative has fortnightly collections and had black, blue, brown for garden waste and mini bins for food, paper and glass but now they dont have the food waste collected or the glass ones so she has these hopeless tiny bins cluttering up her garden. (they were filled within a week anyway!)

I dont bother with bags when I buy fruit and veg, but with only 3 of us our bins are full by 2 weeeks.

Maybe they could come up with a better system but monthly collections certainly isnt the answer.

We recycle and compost though so if they did weekly food collections and recycling and monthly for all else I think we would manage.

Wellerr I'm already forced. We only get fort nightly collections

People are allowed to hate things you know, without attracting your ire

Oh and last time I went to the skip ended up getting a new tyre and another one of them fixed due to the fecking screws/nails in them!

Not in a hurry to go there every week tbh

OP, it is typical of you to see this mainly from your perspective.

We can't compost due to a rat problem.

My parents live in one of this civilised countries where they have STOPPED picking up the grey bin altogether, you now need to take it yourself to an underground collection point.

For my parents, in their 80s, who can no longer drive (DF can't even walk really), this poses a MASSIVE problem. As it would for any other non able-bodied person.

So my mum, aged 80 with a hip problem, has to lug her rubbish around every week.

She has panic attacks about it all piling up...

wanker councils

Sounds to me like a public health nightmare. Rats and disease.

People are allowed to hate things you know, without attracting your ire

Actually, that's not true.

You can hate whatever you want. And I can be disgusted by your attitude, AND tell you. And make no apology for it.

So nerr.

I wouldn't mind, but then we have room to site any bins quite a way from the house. We have fortnightly collections and manage fine with those. Sometimes we have rather an embarrassing overflow of bottles, though

If, on the other hand, I lived in a terraced house, it would be awful. Just imagine if your next-door-neighbours had a month's worth of old takeaways/nappies/TenaLadies etc etc steaming away two feet from your front window in a heatwave.

Of course you can wellerr. Just makes you an arsehole. But I'm sure you don't care what other people think anyway

Wild our council doesn't make exeptions for nappies. We go through about 20 nappies between 2 kids per day 🙄

Our council don't even collect glass.

I'd want better than a sack for nappies. The sack would stink. Older children's or adults pads are very different to a babies. Not to mention the privacy issues.

No we are not allowed extra bags for nappies or incontinence products.

I think recycling isn't really the solution. Would be much better to never make it in the first place. It's shipped all over the world to recycle it and many things like coffee pods there are theorys that it just ends up in landfill.

I often dispose of excess packaging at the supermarket, and buy in bulk. It leaves very little waste.

I think that monthly collections would definitely lead to fly-tipping. There was some discussion of closing the council tips here, and people could pay for bulky waste collection. Yeah, right. It didn't occur to the nitwits on the council that people would go and dump their stuff in a wood/field rather than pay £30.

I am very much in favour of recycling, but you can't make it too difficult for people or they rebel. Some people will always live like pigs, but I think most people want to make a decent stab at managing household waste and want to be incentivised, not punished like we are all naughty householders.

Incidentally I read a while ago that older people are the most opposed to recycling, and frequently cite "Well, I won't be here, will I?" as a reason not to bother.