Bin collections

Uther said:
When he started he would have probably been empying one metal bin in the back of a lorry from every house. People throw away too much **** these days.
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Very true. I think 3 weekly landfill is quite sensible really. It drives people to properly dispose of food waste - I am certainly guilty of not using the food caddys and having an annoyingly high amount of food waste.

Landfill should be, what - nappies, non-recyclable plastics? Unclear how I fill a small wheelie bin every 2 weeks. Must improve my habits.
 
My council's bin collections are weekly. Given the small general waste bin. So if they do decide to reduce the general waste to fortnightly, the council need to bring the standard size bins which will be more money.

Yet over Christmas, if your bin day is scheduled for 29th Dec, no collection.

My hairdresser mentioned her bin was missed the other week. Her Ring doorcam showed footage of two bin men talking to eachother and walked past her bin. She contacted the council with the Ring footage. Council blamed covid (what BS) and emptied her bin the next day.
 
Uther said:
When he started he would have probably been empying one metal bin in the back of a lorry from every house. People throw away too much **** these days.
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Some of the businesses selling food actually used to give the waste food to pigs and then feed the customers the same pigs.

Zero waste lol. Long since made illegal now...
 
Alternating general one week ,glass ,cans plastic cardboard plus general the next , we have to take it down our hill so no bins used
Tbh I go to landfill in Tintagel and just have a walk most of the time
 
Also have one recycling bin which glass, paper, cardboard, plastic, aerosols and tetra pak cartons go into. Very simple.

They have garden waste bins for £50pa. My parents don't bother with this as don't have a lawn plus the tip is only a mile away. So the 3-4 trips to the tip with garden rubbish costs less than £50 in fuel.
 
I have a big dumpy bag for garden stuff ,not precious about my car so drop it at Tintagel or Newquay again great excuse to chill somewhere ,those brown bins wouldn't touch a weekly trim ,maybe a shredding thing needed
 
I’m not sure how some of you are filling a general waste bin in a week. Ours is half the size of our recycling bin and we don’t usually put out half a bin full in a fortnight. Granted there is only two of us but so were some of you said said you fill it in a week.

It only really gets food waste, single use plastics that can’t go in the recycle bin, polystyrene and the rare occasion we end up with a terra pack which I’m too lazy to take back to the shop or the recycling centre which needs an appointment now.

Everything else is recycled which is normally rammed thanks to the online delivery craze sweeping the nation. We have to take our glass back to recycling point, that happens once every few months once I have a couple of boxes full.
 
There's 2 families of 4 a few doors down. They seem to overload the small rubbish bin. Yet a colleague - 6 living at hers, including one 15 month old in nappies fills their bin 2/3 full. She could have a standard size bin as has 6 people but she's keeping to the small bin,
 
Our bins are now collected fortnightly, with normal waste and recycling being alternate weeks. No reduction in council tax of course. They also stopped collecting our garden waste (which we pay extra for) for around four months while they changed contractors. Again there was no refund (we pay annually for that) or even notice that the garden waste bin would not be collected.

cheesefest said:
My previous council stopped food waste collections as only a third of households actually used them.
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Ours are still doing it. But over the last few years the number of food bins sitting outside households for collection has dwindled to around 10%. We tried it for a couple of weeks and then though "sod that" and didn't bother afterwards. It was too messy, smelly and inconvenient. Luckily mega food inflation means no-one can afford to eat anymore so that's the waste food situation solved
 
Hades said:
Ours are still doing it. But over the last few years the number of food bins sitting outside households for collection has dwindled to around 10%. We tried it for a couple of weeks and then though "sod that" and didn't bother afterwards. It was too messy, smelly and inconvenient.
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I've got a feeling that's what will happen here tbh.
 
Seen the binmen pick up the food waste bins, empty them into the black bins, and then stick the black bins on the back of the lorry. Pointless.

We compost most food waste except meat as it attracts rats.

That schedule looks absolutely ridiculous by the way. Some idiot at the council probably got a promotion for that.

Ours are just alternative weeks black bin then recycling. Seems fine.
 
Mason- said:
Seen the binmen pick up the food waste bins, empty them into the black bins, and then stick the black bins on the back of the lorry. Pointless.

We compost most food waste except meat as it attracts rats.

That schedule looks absolutely ridiculous by the way. Some idiot at the council probably got a promotion for that.

Ours are just alternative weeks black bin then recycling. Seems fine.
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It encourages using the food bins - it stops the binman from doing exactly what you've moaned about in your first sentence, and discourages landfill.

Seems like it solves lots of issues to me.
 
Goodie said:
that doesn't seem well thought out, some weeks they're doing a full run to collect just the small food waste bins. Also waste collection every three weeks seems a bit long.
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They'll be doing "full" rounds for each collection, just different percentages of the area count as a round.

In my area for example some streets get their collection on a Monday, some on a Tuesday etc (done fortnightly), and they have to make repeated trips back to where it's dumped, but for brown bins because there is so much less per house they can do far more between return trips which means they can do it in full weekly with fewer trucks. Our refuse collectors seem to send a few guys well ahead of the truck with a wheely bin and they empty the small brown bins into it then the truck catches up at the end of the street so it'd done very efficiently (we have orange/green/brown and black/brown alternating weeks).

That schedule looks like a nightmare to remember though, as it means that it's not an easy "alternating" collection (with brown weekly), but some weeks it's 1 small and 1 large, others it can be 1 small and two large and it's not going to be the same two large each time.
About the only way I'd remember that is to put the schedule up on the fridge, or set a reminder in the alexa app (or similar) so that it pops up on my screens the night before.
 
Uther said:
I've got a feeling that's what will happen here tbh.
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The two families I mentioned, have takeaways most days. Eat 2-3 slices of pizza or half a chinese, then sling out the containers without bagging them. Why order takeaways when not hungry? These families will get a shock later
 
jpaul said:
would be fascinating to know how much food waste they expect to collect to justify expense of caddy & its collection,

We just have vegetable peelings / egg-shells , occasional piece of bread gos to the birds, so nothing substantial a pig, say, could live off,
Do RSPCA standards allow pigs to be fed on .. what .. uneaten fast-food.
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Our council provides compostable bags for food waste and they then go in with the garden waste.

I've never quite understood councils who don't take this approach. Do they send food waste and garden waste to different composting sites.
 
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