to object to going a month without bin collection!!!!!!

[clam]

We have fortnightly bin collections round here. Last week, not unreasonably, due to the snow, they didn't come to collect the black bins. However, have just read on the council's website that the next collection will be green bins as usual and the next black bin round will not be until 7th January!!!! Over Christmas and New Year?!
SURELY they ought to ditch the green round and catch up with the black, when already we are overflowing with extra black sacks?
It so happens that we have space to store our rubbish round the side of the house out of sight (and smell), but what about all those who haven't?
Who do I complain to? I'm in the mood for it.

well I'd be complaining if they ditched our green one ti catch up for the black, as I've got LOADS of stuff that needs recycling, but black bin is looking remarkably "normal"

does seem a little odd that they've not made arrangements to collect the bins that should have been collected last week though

I'd ring the,ermmm council?????

On a bank holiday??

The green bin is full too, but not as much as the black. And the paper/glass/plastic boxes are overflowing too, although they empty those each time. Am going to be a bit about the number of empty bottles.....

oh yeah - forgot it's a bank holiday

It seems completely wrong that you should go a whole month without a refuse collection...however I am probably spoilt in that we have weekly refuse/recycling collection here, and it was even collected today despite it being a bank holiday!

we usually have weekly collections and havent had ne since a week ago tuesday and our next one isnt until the tuesday AFTER new year due to backlog we live in an end terraced house with an alleygate attatched and bin bags have started to pile up magically during each night it is ridiculous!

Our black bins were due to be collected lat Friday and weren't - can't imagine why not!

But were collected this am!

Sounds a bit grim so YANBU.

I'm overseas but last week I got a letter to say that wheelie bins would no longer be emptied daily but would now occur 3 x per week!

We have brown bins for garden waste, cardboard and food waste. The council are really pushing everyone to put all food waste in these bins and not the black, general waste ones. However, they have suspended brown bin collections over Christmas so there will be four weeks between collections. Four weeks worth of food waste rotting away nicely. I'd much rather they'd suspended the black bin collection as that has hardly anything in it and certainly nothing smelly!

We're in a similar situation... our bins were supposed to be emptied on the 18th but they missed that because of the snow... so we haven't been emptied since the 12th. We've just been informed they won't be taking any extra bags that aren't in our bins... so I'm going to have lug the extra down to the dump tomorrow... when I will be 40+4 [grr]

That's horrid I would complain

The binmen came and emptied both our black and blue bins this morning, thankfully now we can fill them both up again.

Our council is collecting on our normal days. If your collection is a Friday, then you have to wait 3 weeks because of Christmas Day and New Years Day. All other days ar normal.

We have weekly collections of both landfill and recycling.

Our local dump recycling site is excellent, so I would go there if there were any problems with collections. I imagine we will anyway at some point over the next week or so.

I am pleased in a way that our bin men did not attempt a recycling collection on the normal day before Christmas. The combination of an S shaped close, extra parked cars and a frozen glass-like road with their enormous vehicle didn't bear thinking about.

The freezing temps have gone some way towards preventing the smelly decomposing food waste, but we don't generate vast amounts of it as we compost fruit and veg waste.

Our black bin hardly has anything in it as the local tip now takes plastic containers and fruit juice cartons, as well as batteries, used cooking oil and long-life light bulbs.

Yanbu. We have weekly rubbish and fortnightly re-cycling collections and are a week behind as nothing was collected last week due to the snow. Both my bins are full to the brim, and that's with composting and keeping the glass / foil / batteries / textiles for the tip.

I don't know how your council organises things, but our recycling is done by a different lorry, with different people and is on a two week rota for the two halves of the borough - so they couldn't simply replace the normal bin collection with the recycling one, as that lorry would be collecting in the other half of the borough & not available.

Though we are lucky that so far our borough has resisted the shift to fortnightly collections & our normal bins are picked up every week, the recycling is week 1 - green waste & week 2 - card/paper & plastic.

I may be being arsey here, but I do not expect to have to take every-day refuse up to the tip when I pay well over £2000 a year council tax! Fair enough if we're clearing out the loft or something, but this is general trash. And we're really good about re-cycling.

Our council has fortnightly household (black) bin collections, and in between there is a brown bin collection for garden waste. Recyclables are collected weekly in grey and green boxes.

For Christmas we had a card giving our collection dates, and instead of the fortnighly collection, the in-between brown bin has been replaced by a household black bin collection, so we effectively get a weekly collection over Christmas. Our council does try hard.

I feel the same Clam. We have fortnightly collections and binmen were due on Christmas Eve but didnt come (not sure why as their notice said they would be collecting them as normal).

Bins are overflowing and they wont take the extras. I grudge going to tip on my time and expense when I pay a bloody fortune in council tax.

We are really good with recycling as well but have those daft skinny bins that only hold about 2 binbags so with a family of 5 they fill up really quick.

yanbu it's our recycling though that will have had a month between collections which is just great* with the cardboard box and wrapping paper mountain we have lurking here.

*sarcasm in case you missed it.

Well, although it pains me to defend our council, they have said (on the website) that they will take extra binbags - when they deign to turn up.
Cannot believe the cheek of those who won't. They miss a badly-needed collection at one of the worst times of the year, and then start refusing to take stuff?! Then I really would be fuming.

YANBU! I would be very . I'm quite lucky that my local council picks up black bag rubbish weekly, with no limits on how many either. They pick up the recycling on a fortnightly basis, tins,glass & card/paper one week and garden waste the following week. They still picked up the black bags last monday as normal, despite the snow, and will be out tomorrow to do our round (a day late as BH, although I am now wondering what is going to happen to the parts of our town that have a friday bin collection, will speak to my friend in that area tomorrow, she might have a different take on the service provided...). Thing is, our council picks up from the 'posher' areas early in the week, so we never miss our collection , but the predominantly council housing areas on a Friday, and I would assume that although the bin men usually work the Saturday locally when there's been a BH, not sure what's going to happen there.

DO some areas have set amounts for black bags then???? I know about the silly wheelie bin rules, glad we haven't got them (yet) in our area. Just wondered if some councils are saying you can only put out 2/3 black bags? I get through 4/5 a week. AND I recycle. Can't compost though, my garden is covered in rubber matting under the DC's climbing frame.

Loudlass - my council will only take what is in the wheely bin and the lid must be able to close with no more than a 2inch gap.

They wont take extra bags left beside the wheely bin and if the bin is too full that gets left too.

Also, if you accidently put something that cant be recycled into the recycling (no matter how small it is) they will leave that bin as well.

we dont have bins so we have a HUGE pile of black bin bags, No car to get to the dump so its just all going to have to go out next week! we also dont have a recycling collection on our street although i think they are starting paper and card collection sometime in 2010.

I can understand, although I disagree with, them refusing to take loads of extra bags normally. But in our case, there will have been over a month since they last turned up to collect the black bins. Which is not our fault. So it would be totally unreasonable for them to leave behind additional bags.

Just thinking gleefully of the letters I shall be writing to the local papers... ooh, and how about the Daily Mail. Bet they'd like a dustbin moan.