Council announced rubbish collection soon fortnightly, not weekly.

[Oblomov]

My bins will stink in the summer. my bins are already 3/4 full each week. how is this going to work ?
rats. amggots. what can i do to help myself. i don't want to run my rubbish to the skip. i pay huge council bills. why should i have to ?
They re-cycle weekly and collect rubbish weekly, two days later. currently thye only collect tins, botttles, newsapapers.
but i also collect plastic and cupbaord and take that to the re-cycling centre myself. no hassle/ so them collecting this from now on, is fine, but doesn't change much.
my bins will still be the same full, becasue i re-cycle as much as i can anyway. so if 3/4 full each week, they will be over flowing fortnightly, surely.
and why do they smell. what am, i doing wrong.

i am cross that the council are doing this. i am sure they are trying to encourage re-cycling. re-duce costs. but i already do alot.

Are they doing anything like introducing bins for compostable waste? Will the recycling still be collected once a week?

We're going to fortnightly collections over the summer too - it's going to be pretty nasty, but once DS is out of nappies it should be a bit better.

YANBU

Its been fortnightly here for ages and now we have the gift of rats.In the summer it stinks so much outside it makes you wretch. You have my sympathy.

we've been on fortnightly collections here for years now. No problems so far.

Only time I've seen maggots in a our bin was donkey's years ago when we had weekly collections, and since then in the work bins

we have had this system for a couple of years

but we also have food and garden waste collected weekly so less smelly bins

it is ideal but you can get a Jeyes powder which you can sprinkle over the bin bags and it neutralises some of the smell

Many councils already do this. Ours do, we have 2 wheelie bins and they collect the recycling waste one week and the 'regular' rubbish the next. Was one of the reasons we chose washable nappies rather than disposables.

The recycling bin takes paper, cardboard, tins and plastic bottles. We rinse everything so it doesn't get smelly. It is always the fullest bin. We recycle clothing, glass and metal rubbish ourselves at the recycling centre.

We also compost all kitchen waste. Anything smelly in the other bin gets double bagged. Thankfully we don't have a cat anymore - the cat litter was the biggest source of whiffs.

I think with the problems with landfill space this is going to become an issue we will all have to deal with. I already try and avoid products with excessive packaging. The thought of all those easter eggs in double layers of plastic frankly makes me feel quite faint.

We've been doing this for ages now and never had a problem.
We are a family of 6 and now recycle everything our bins do not over flow.
We have a large bin and a half size one for normal rubbish, we pay £30 for all the food rubbish to go in a large green bin(you don't have to you can have as many small kitchen bins as you like for food waste)
And then a blue bag for cardboard and 3 black boxes for glass etc.
We still have to take plastics to a local bottle bank.
It took a bit of practice but now we all do it without thinking.
We honestly didn't get any smells in the summer and no problems with rats etc, in fact I prefer the bins as we used to get the bags ripped open by cats.
You soon get used to the fortnightly collections.

we have fortnightly domestic waste collection - alternated with recycling so dom waste one week then recycling the next - BUT our council collect plastics/glass/tins/cardboard/papers and cloth and provide a wheelie bin the same size as the dom waste bin that we put glass/plastic and papers in (all together) and a box for cardboard flattened down - It works fine in my experience.

efficiency savings.....................

We all pay lots of council tax but local authorities are being hammered left right and centre with cuts. The money doesn't stretch.

How big is your bin? Is it the standard huge size wheely bin (240 litres)?

I sometimes don't get my bins collected for 6 weeks because it can take that long to fill up there are 6 of us in the house, too, including 2 who are part-time in disp. nappies and I've never had trouble with maggots or rats or horrendous stink. What we can recycle in the green wheely bin is about the same as you.... can you put in there general paper and cardboard, or just newspaper?

Do you compost, or could you get a compost bin to be emptied fortnightly?

Not trying to get on my high horse, just wondering what it is I do that is so different, and might be something you could do. Some people get their wheely bins cleaned & disinfected every 4 weeks. I realise that you don't want to do that, but it's an option many do take up.

You can get extra large size bins, I think 360 litre, for large families, too.

chickens - vg at eating food waste then you compost their droppings.

There was a thread once about how much rubbish people created and it turned out the people with impressively tiny rubbish outputs actually just had a very big and heavy dh who was good at squashing it all down

We've had this for ages and it's caused no problems. Recycling is collected on the other week.

Well I think you are being a bit unreasonable actually. I pay huge council bills too and I'd rather the money did not go on land-filling tons of rubbish.

Seriously though, what is this rubbish? I recycle glass, paper, card, plastic and cartons (mostly at re-cycling centers cause our council only collects paper and card) and compost most of my green waste and that leaves me with about 1/4 of a binfull per week (that's based on one family of 4 inc. a toddler in nappies). It won't smell or attract rats if the lid is shut tight.

I guess if you have no car (to cart recycling to supermarket), or no garden so you can't compost, then you are not being unreasonable but still think your council should recycle more and bin less.

Here in France, rubbish is collected daily.

Why do you put up with fortnightly rubbish collection? Especially given the council taxes you pay. I would have organized a rebellion.

Same - 2 weekly collections. No issues and we recycle anything we can, the council collects it. Looking at CoteDAzur's post you could always move to France

I am guessing it depends on the other waste collection that they do and if the houses have gardens so they can compost. We do not have gardens and we do not have a food waste collection. In our area rubbish bags are dumped in back alleys there is no room for large plastic bins. This has caused problems. I think i may write and suggest that we are given food waste bins that can be collected that is a brilliant idea.

no idea on composting. could try that.
ds2 still in nappies too. so hopefully that will improve once he stops.
interesting about jeyes, thank you.

Fortnightly collections here too, compostables and recycling 1 week, then all other domestic waste next week.
No problems here with a family of 6 (soon to be 7.) Bin is always ready to be emptied as full but doesn't smell too bad or cause problems. Everything that goes in our household waste bin is in a bin bag anyway.
Most coucils are cash poor, and something has to give, I find it increases the amount people recycle, a good thing in my book.

Get ready for a stinkathon we have had this shite for 2 years. Tip I buy rubble sacks they look small but I get my son to stand on top while we compress all the rubbish down into it! One rubble sack lasts family of 5 1 week. A wheeley bin should hold 5 of these sacks and still close. It took some getting used to but it does work. We have a collection fortnightly but if it goes wrong, (holidays, bad weather, strikes) which it does frequently you can go for 4 weeks without a collection. Paper and cardboard plus cans and glass are also collected every other week. We also have sparate containers for these. Food waste is the next thing they are mooting but I will refuse to comply. I tried composting but a family of rats chewed through the plastic compost container and our garden became a rat magnet! It was a 24 hour buffet so NEVER AGAIN. My BF has her "slop bucket" collected fortnightly but she has thrown it out and will not comply any more. She is asthmatic and last summer the fumes off her bucket WERE THICK AND TOXIC! I need a new sink in the kitcen so I will have a wasre disposal unit fitted too!
I feel good that my recycling efforts are all going to a massive warehouse to be stored and then shipped to China later on. It makes such perfect sense

We have fortnightly and it's fine, even when we had two in nappies.

Our council collects virtually everything for recycling though, so any packaging that has a recycle symbol on it I put in our recycling bin. We have a big wheely recycling bin which is collected fortnightly and can put out boxes of additional recycling or even have a second recycling bin if we want to. Normal waste we can't put anything out extra or have another bin.

Once everything is recycled, it's normally pretty easy for us to keep actual rubbish to one binload per fortnight.

We've had fortnightly collections for about 5 years, it sucks.

They collect recycling every week, plastic and glass one week, cans and cardboard the next.
The problem is that they won't collect any plastic except milk/pop bottles and won't accept corrugated cardboard or cardboard from cereal packets. This means that all our yoghurt pots, cheese spread pots, cereal boxes, biscuit boxes etc can't go in the recycling so we still have huge amounts in the regular bin. We compost to try to reduce it but we still seem to have such a lot.

Its fine in the winter because its so cold, but in the summer the bags just have to sit outdoors (not provided with a wheelie bin at all) on the patio so animals get in them and they start to smell by they end of the fortnight. I'm paying well over £100 a month for council tax and I often wonder where the hell its going.

We used to have fortnightly collections in the last place we lived and it works. tbh it does help focus the mind on exactly what you're chucking away and that's a good thing. The recyclying bin was enormous and they took plastics, paper, cans, bottles, the majority of household waste actually.

Now we get weekly collection and recycling every 14 days, hardly anything can be put in the tiny recycling box, so loads more stuff goes to landfill.

Do you compost Oblomov? That might reduce the smells & the quantity a bit? We have fortnightly collections including all recycling bins & green waste & just about squeeze it all in, but am not finding smells or rats a problem. Apparently egg shells in compost attract rats so we don't put those in.

Should have said, we use washable nappies, can't imagine how bad it would be if we were using disposables!

Why bother offering such a half hearted recycling scheme?!

Using a compost bin makes a huge difference to the smell.
It works fine for us except my blue recycle bin is always overflowing by the 2nd week.