To think there should be less landfill collections

[InkedGreen]

I push out my landfill bin every couple of months.

There's recycling every week and I either recycle or compost most things so very little goes to landfill.

Aibu to think they should collect less? I have single people on my road who's waste bin is always overflowing.

Nothing dirty ever goes in this bin and the council do a separate scheme for nappies so that won't be affected.

Just seems a bit dated to send so much to landfill. Other European countries allow you voucher for 10 collections a year. That seems much better and a way to reduce council costs to spend on other things like adult care and libraries.

Considering what a problem there is with fly tipping as it is, YABU.

How many people are in your household? Our collection is every 3 weeks. Also depends what your council collects for recycling

Fly tipping general waste? I only really see that for sofas and white goods.

Other European countries have this without fly tipping issues

Other European countries allow you voucher for 10 collections a year.

Which countries are these?

I think recycling facilities would need to be massively improved to do this. Our council barely take anything for recycling, just paper and cardboard.

No glass, tins, no food caddy etc. We don’t live somewhere where would be able to compost.

Unfortunately most of the 'recycling' just gets sent to landfill in other countries (poor ones, where there are no standards for how a landfill should be run or they are not enforced).

I think it should be illegal to export any waste whatsoever, but particularly not any of the 'recycling' which is not actually commercially viable to be actually used.

There's 4 in our house. At most the waste bin gets filled every 2 months

No glass, tins or food collected? That's shocking! They collect everything here other than some plastic film lids and plastic packaging. Which I try to avoid anyway

I have 6 kids, I struggle with my collections being every 3 weeks instead of every 2 now so YABU.

The problem is companies using excessive packaging.

You cant compare then as not all councils collect everything.

Parts of Austria and Germany do, plus many places do have a pay as you throw system.

I'm pretty shocked some don't collect glass or cans. That's just terrible!!

@InkedGreen nope, ours is listed as one of the worst councils for this.

You can take glass to a bottle bank at the supermarket if you have a car but we don’t have any collections for it.

If go 15 minutes down the road o my parents who come under a different council they have various things taken like garden waste, glass etc but here there is none of that!

That’s disgusting! YABU. Are you storing rotting food, san pro etc for a whole month?!

'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' is in that order for a reason, so YANBU on that front.

However, it's a lot less simple than just collecting less rubbish. You need to look at cities like Curitiba in Brazil where they integrated waste management into every part of life to make it sustainable.

Where the heck do you put your general waste then if you dont have compost bin space and no food waste collections? Our bins are every 2 weeks and are full by then despite taking garden waste, clothes and glass to recycling centre. If manufacturers and shops used less packaging it would help a whole lot.

Much of the 'recycling' just isnt anyway. Some plastic can't be recycled with other plastics so is thrown away anyway. Or as p.o. said dumped in some 3rd work country to clog up rivers and jungles as they can't deal with them either.

Have you seen the laybys in UK? Usually covered in rubbish and other crap people are too selfish and lazy to take home. (Or even put in the actual bin provided)

I'm pretty shocked some don't collect glass or cans. That's just terrible!!

Why are you shocked that not everywhere.in uk is the same as your area?
Not all council districts have the same budget or resources to do.everything we would like them to do. Some are better than others but having recycling centres is better than nothing.

Our council built a massive waste incinerator plant which burns all the rubbish and turns it to electricity. So no landfill. I’m not sure what the environmental effects are of burning stuff but I guess no worse than coal power stations, drilling for gas, etc.

Boggles of course I'm not putting rotting food in general waste. Who on earth would send that to landfill?

I'm shocked that other councils aren't collecting basic recycling, not that every area isn't the same

If you can put pet waste and san-pro in with nappies then that is fine. Otherwise these things need to be collected more than once a month.

(And yes ideally everyone would have reusable nappies and san-pro and cat litter could go in compost but that is not always possible.)

I think you are lucky to live in an area where your council makes it easy for you to do this.

It’s not the same in all areas of the UK.

But good for you.

We have fortnightly collections but probably only put our refuse bin out monthly. We have one of the smaller sized wheelie bins. We have a baby so are actually entitled to an extra bin, but use cloth nappies so have never bothered as we currently don’t fill the normal bin.

We don’t have a choice but to send food waste to landfill in our area (thankfully we don’t have much). There is no additional food waste collection and whilst fruit/veg is fine on the compost, anything else attracts vermin.