How often is your rubbish collected?

Ganga

Household waste - every week
Recycle waste -every other week
Garden waste -every other week alternating with the recycle but have to pay extra ( share cost with neighbour,both use my bin )

jackieblack

Once a week

General household waste (black bag) and food waste - every week
Recycle waste - collection every week, red box (paper/cardboard) one week, green box - (plastic bottles/tin cans) the next, alternating
Garden waste (brown wheelie bin) - every other week (different day to other collections) but have to pay extra

We don't get glass collected, I have to take that to the bottle bank.

If it wasn't for the dirty cat litter (two cats restricted to an enclosed garden for medical/health reasons) I'd have less than half a black bag a week and it wouldn't bother me if it was collected less frequently, but a week's worth of dirty cat litter is pongy enough to make me very grateful it's collected weekly!

Brighton_belle

No option on poll for 'never'. We have a communal bin in the next street (ordinary terraced streets, not flats) for rubbish.

Recycling however has recently changed from fortnightly to weekly.

andrewf75

Once a fortnight

Seems an odd place for this thread. Is it a euphemism?

Former_MSE_Andrea

Once a fortnight

onlyroz wrote: »

A lot of this is about educating people to avoid products with excessive packaging. Also, the government could legislate to try and incentivise manufacturers to reduce packaging. For example fruit or veg really shouldn't need anything more than a thin bag - no need for cardboard or plastic trays as well. And if people were encouraged to cook from scratch rather than buy ready-meals this would also reduce packaging.


I read of a proposed scheme in Sweden (I think) which gave a tax break for appliance repairs - to incentivise people to repair their TV/washing machine/dishwasher etc rather than throw it away.

This is it. It love the idea..

Sweden Offers Tax Breaks For People To Fix Their Stuff Instead Of Trashing It

bugslet

Once a fortnight

As with jackieblacks cat litter, I have four dogs, monthly collection does not appeal.

It's currently every fortnight for general waste & plastics/cardboard and fortnightly for the paid for green bin.

I really don't want to go to a monthly collection, simply because I can't use the tip, so big items get broken up and slowly disposed of over weeks sometimes in the general waste.

Just because I drive a small van instead of a car ( it's better for the dogs and easier to clean ), I can't use the tip without the palaver of getting a permit, which invariably takes an hour out of my precious weekend. really irks me, possibly disproportionately:o

Former_MSE_Andrea

Once a fortnight

andrewf75 wrote: »

Seems an odd place for this thread. Is it a euphemism?

Haha!

We thought it was a great discussion and wanted a good range of opinion on it. The best place to get that is here on the families board

MallyGirl

Once a fortnight

onlyroz wrote: »

Alternate weekly for us between regular waste and recycling/garden waste (and we have to pay extra for the garden waste collection).

same here - although green charge doesn't start till April

Teapot55

Once a week

I keep 'smelly' stuff in a recycled wax cereal bag in the freezer until the night before the rubbish is collected:

• meat bones
• fish bones & skin
• leftover cooked food that musn't go in compost bin

That way my bin rubbish doesn't pong or get attacked by cats or foxes, as the nasties are still frozen and also triple-wrapped:

1. in the wax cereal bag
2. in the white kitchen bin liner
3. in the black bin-bag

KxMx

Once a fortnight

Everything gets picked up twice a month so one week black bin (waste) one week blue bin (recycling) and so on.

Garden waste gets picked up on recycling day on a brown bin.

We manage quite well, would not like to go down to monthly for black, no way. As it is we've got a rather dilapidated black bin, requesting a new one would mean getting a smaller bin as the sizes given now are quite a bit less. As it's currently often full come emptying day it wouldn't work.

I would like to go to weekly black bin collections during the summer but it won't happen.