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.

Ooooooooooooooooh. Now I feel stupid . My mum tried too and she said the same. Stupidity must run in the family (sorry mum). Will try again thank you!

It shouldn't be stinky though egg. It might be an idea to keep it away from the radiator and as carrots says, make sure you are using enough bran (I find it doesn't last as long as they say it should - ie 3 months' supply usually lasts me less than that, but I guess it depends how much food you're putting in it.

I honestly don't know how people do it. I recycle everything (plastic, cardboard, cans, bottles), unwrap over packaged stuff at supermarket, DS in reusables, but still end up doing a recycling trip mid week.

maybe lovemedog has one of those tiny weenny recyc boxes that only hold about 3 plastic bottles and 1 tin before the lid won;t shut. i could fill one of those in a week on my own,so glad I moved to a house with a yard when I became we.

We recyle plastic, glass, tin, cardboard, paper, tetripak thingys, garden waste and we compost. We have had fortnightly collections for ages now and not had a problem- we have even managed a month when we forgot to put the bin out once(ok it is more than once!)

Ok will retrieve bin and check tap thanks! I had 2 and they both did the same so is probably me, and also not draining off the fluid enough. But it really stained the kitchen floor grout so it put me off... Would like to get it going again though.

It really irritates me that it is the consumers that have to pay the price of mountains of packaging - not the producers or supermarkets.

It would be much better imho if the government started penalising companies using excess packaging to encourage them to stop.

Apparently you are entitled to strip the packaging from your shopping and leave it at the till - though I don't think I'd have the balls to do that

This is all quite pathetic. that you people are talking about how best to live with your garbage for weeks in the year 2010.

Seriously. Get organized and rebel against the practice of fortnightly rubbish collection.

CoteDAzur, I agree with you 100%. But you will not escape it where you live. These recycling policies are EU policy. You will eventually get the same thing. The French and Italians don't like following rules, but they swallowed the EU smoking ban.

The idea is to make the service so bad that the public is prepared to swallow anything. Then rubbish collection will be privatised, the service will improve, but the public will have to pay through the nose for it, and none of the existing taxes will be reduced.

have you noticed that in offices and factories there is one bin into which everything is thrown? Paper, cans of drink, bottles etc., everything goes into one bin. It's only the public that has been trained to put everything into separate bins.

god this is weird

claig in the offices where i work we introduced separate bins...

and cote we all live with the garbage, same bloody planet last i looked

well it will be interesting to see if separate bins are introduced in meeting rooms and under desks and on the shop floor. One bin for bottles, one for cans, one for chewing gum, one for paper. I think we should all start campaigning for it. Why aren't the green groups making a noise about it?

what, a noise separate from general noise about recycling?

i was part of a green group in my workplace that did make a noise about it

I wonder if there are separate bins in schools.
Your workplace is unusual, all the places I have worked in did not have separate bins. Millions of people spend 8 hours a day at work throwing away half-eaten sandwiches, cans of drink, paper etc. into one bin. I hope more people like you can get big corporations to play their part just like the public has to. Let's have more publicity about it. It seems that companies are not playing their part in saving the planet.

Riven - Yes, I do live in a bit of a special bubble where there is no garbage, dirt, or even dust on the streets. There are no crisp packets to whisk away, btw, because everybody is obsessed with their bodies and nobody would be caught dead eating crisps

But I was thinking of France which is right next door to us - "real world", not a wealthy bubble, and yet they manage to collect garbage every night. They also recycle garbage, but not quite as obsessively as you people in the UK. Recycling is voluntary. People put their glass jars in the glass bin, cardboard/plastic/tin cans in another bin, newspapers/magazines in yet another.

It is just nuts to rationalize living with your garbage for two weeks.

Council tax, same as yours. It's not that expensive to have a truck go round every night with two guys in it earning minimum wage.

It would be interesting though Cote, to see which place produces the most waste - I wonder whether collecting daily simply encourages people to produce more, since they know it's just going to be magically whisked away (it's a genuine question btw; actually I suspect we might be surprised, but I'd like to know).

choosy - We don't live in the same garbage, actually, just because we live on the same planet. Mine is collected every day. Yours is collected every two weeks. Ergo, you live with your garbage festering nearby and I don't live with anybody's.

Just because you can't see it though Cote, doesn't mean it has magically 'gone'; it's still out there somewhere, just not next to your house. The point is that we should all be creating less waste.

midnightexpress - I could easily believe that more waste is produced per capita in a place where residents are not forced to live with what they don't recycle. Sure, more recycling is a good thing. But no, it it is not such a good thing if at the expense of living with rats, insects, and the smell.