Right, what do you think to this theory?????

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Ok, our wheelybin collection is fortnightly. It was weekly during the summer which was great.

Now it has gone back to every other week, we are getting pile ups of rubbish so we are having to put it in black bags and store it in an open outhouse we have until dh has the time to take it to the tip.
Now this pees me off because we only have a small yard and inside the outhouse is dd's wooden playhouse, so she cant get to it. Plus we had a Rat before xmas so its just down right grim.

Now my thoughts are this; what causes more damage to the enviroment? My dh using the car to take the rubbish to the tip because we have no room in our wheely bin or asking for a bigger bin to store more rubbish in?
Not to mention costs for the council to come out and sort the Rat out.

What do you think?

Oh and we are a family of 4 with 2 dogs btw.

bumping cos I'm on my way out and am going to write a letter to my council later.

Just wondering why you need a bigger bin or more frequent collection. What I mean is, what sort of stuff is going in your wheelie bin? That might help you see if there are things that could be recycled, or just not used/bought in the first place, if that makes sense.

We still have fortnightly collections here, although I reckon in the next few years they will move to weekly.

However, most weeks we only use about one-third to one-quarter of our bin, so fortnightly shouldn't be a problem. That's for a family of five. It's only very rarely e.g. when we've had a big clear-out that we 'need' the full capacity of our bin.

You're right about environmental costs of going to the dump though, it's something that bothers us because we save all our plastic bottles etc to take to the recycling centre, but we often wonder about how green that really is. We really need kerbside collections of plastics.

I think before writing to the council I would look at why you're not managing with the bin you have. Is it a very small bin? Do your neighbours have the same problem? Are there things you could perhaps avoid putting in the bin?

we are a family of 5 adults ( practically)

afte i have recycled glass - took to glass bank
paper cardboard

plastic bottles and tin cans.

i dont really have that much rubbish.

i dont have a compost heap either and stick veg stuff in there.

2 bags per week.

you can get at least 3 in a wheelie bin

we can buy another bin for £80 here, though that seems a little unfair to me.

yeah us too.

the council wouldnt give us a recycle box when we moved in as ours was nicked.

so i nicked one

We have the same problem we were told by council if we wanted a bigger bin we would have to have another child as they only give out bigger bins to families of six or more!

We recycle as much as possible more than other families in this street I have to jump in the bin once a week to squash it down and dh sometimes has to go to the tip. The brown bin scheme is ok but we have filled it already and if you put it in anything else they will not take it.

We have no recycling bins and even if we took things to the bottle bank etc it stills brings me back to the same point about using the car.

At our old house we had 4 bins. Household, Garden, Glass/tins and paper. We managed well then.

Admittedly now we have 7 month old ds who is in disposable nappies and dd is in them at night.

lol dazie, my dh does the jumping thing

your council doesn't do reclin collections?

what council is it?

Well I'm in North Yorkshire but I think its called Hambleton district council for our area.
We do have a green bin but its no use as we dont have a garden

I think I would contact your council then. Generally I don't approve of families having bigger bins or more bins, but any reduction in bin collection frequency must be accompanied by measures to make it easy for people to recycle more.

There should be more kerbside collections of recyclables, and also recycling banks in the sort of places that people visit anyway - leisure centres, supermarkets, schools etc. So no need for extra car trips to the recycling centre.

Where I live if you have 5 or more in a family you can buy an extra bin for £25, but that seems to defeat the point. So families in the same street as me happily put out 2 full bins every week, although we have fairly decent recycling facilities here.

hambleton

Where we used to live in south yorkshire, they offered bigger bins for familes of 5 or more but like I said, we had 4 recycling bins so it wasnt nessecary.

We also used to feed our dog tinned food, so we went through 7 tins a week. Now he eats dry food from a big bag so theres none of that. And as for the nappies, we have a nappy bin so that doesnt get emptied much.

If you shop in supermarkets, you could always leave all their extra packaging there, before tkaing your shopping home. After you've gone through the till, just get rid of all the rubbish and ask them to dispose of it for you. Everyone wins as you don't have to get a bigger bin and, in the long run, it encourages them stop the waste as it costs a lot for them to dispose of it as 'trade' waste.

it drives me mad that they dont make plastic bottle collections in our area this would help us, we stopped buying milk from the shops to cut down on the amount of plastic bottles we have and now have the milk man.

thanks for the link custy. just looking at the wormarys

Not sure what sort of packaging you mean crimplene. Things like bags that you put fruit and veg in?

Dazie, I always thought that should have been done about plastic. We went through tons of milk and drinks bottles.

Have called them and was met with a brick wall

All she could say was that we had to be a family of 7 for a bigger bin
Even though I explained that my dh worked away alot and I didnt drive so couldnt get to recycle points and the fact we've had a Rat, it made no difference. She couldnt offer me any other options what so ever.

I've logged a complaint anyway and apparently someone will be getting back to me.

All councils are like this they will not budge. It will be interesting to see if you get a response dh hasnt and he has complained three or four times. I cant believe you have to be a family of seven to get a bigger bin!

I feel sorry for familes of 6!

I'll make a big stink about the Rat because its so distgusting and if they think thats acceptable with 2 children, then they really are a bag of shittola.