How often is your rubbish collected?

northwalesd

Once a fortnight

Recycling - plastics, glass, metals, paper/cardboard weekly. General waste two weekly (so weeks 1, 3, 5 etc.) alternating with garden waste (weeks 2, 4, 6 etc.). No extra charge for anything - yet.

ripplyuk

Once a fortnight

Green bin one week, Black bin the next.

The green one has all the 'dry recycleable' stuff, paper etc. Black bin is everything else, including food waste. I think it's crazy to expect people to let that build up for a month, especially in summer. It would rot and attract vermin.

Also, we have a brown bin for garden waste, but I use that to store a bale of hay for the Bunny.

Kim_13

Once a fortnight

Fortnightly for all, but apparently they are talking about every 3 weeks for the landfill. Awful. We struggle on a fortnightly collection and our bin is bigger than most; the council have since reduced the size of the landfill bin and anyone who's had a new bin in the past 10 years or so has a smaller one. I have seen a neighbour going round and opening every bin looking for somewhere to put his landfill waste!

We have no food waste bin which is increasing the amount in the landfill bin, as is our limited plastic recycling as compared to some other councils (they will only take plastic bottles.) The paper recycling bin is tiny and most ends up in the recycling bin at the supermarket.

Garden waste is also fortnightly but we don't have it since the charge came in. We don't have enough to justify paying it. In the autumn most of our green waste is leaves from trees that don't belong to us, so I don't see why we should pay to dispose of them. It goes in landfill.

It surprises me how many green waste bins I see out, considering it's even more regressive than council tax in general (flat fee regardless of band of house.) That said more have refused to pay it since they hiked the price by 5% only a year after introducing it.

tesuhoha

Once a week

We have a wheelie bin for food and garden waste, a general rubbish and recycling. All three are collected once a week thank goodness. I have nowhere to store excess rubbish.

bugslet

Once a fortnight

The daft thing is that people are more likely to fly tip if it becomes difficult to dispose of waste. I actually bring waste occasionally into work because I can't get into the tip with my van. If i didn't have that option then it's a load of faff. I'm not going to fly tip, but everyone has a point where they go sod it.

It cost almost 50 million in 2014/15 to clear up dumped rubbish in England. Extension of waste collection times is not going to improve that.

AndyBSG

Once a fortnight

Normal rubbish is currently collected weekly but is moving to fortnightly at the end of this month.

Fortnightly collection doesn't hugely concern but I our collections in rubbish are a nightmare.

My previous council used to have 4 different types of collection which were general rubbish, food waste, garden waste and recycling. For the recycling all paper, plastic, glass and tins went in the same bag and were sorted at the recycling plant.

My current council have 8 different collections.

Normal rubbish
Glass
Tins/cans
Garden waste
Paper
Plastic
Cardboard

As you can imagine sorting all that lot out is a complete nightmare and we regularly have our paper and card collections refused because there are no clear guidelines on what is classed as card.

I've put cereal boxes in paper and had stickers telling me the collection has been refused because it contains card and i've put them in card and had the collection refused saying the card contains paper.

Our council regularly send out leaflets complaining about the fact we have one of the lowest recycling rates in the country and don't actually ask why the borough next door where I used to live has one of the highest

indesisiv

Once a fortnight

Fortnightly for us.
Green bin (Normal landfill waste) and Brown bin (garden waste) one week and then:
Blue Bin (Recycling, paper, cardboard, plastic, tins, cans, bottles etc) on the alternative week.

I normally put my bins out about once a month when I remember so 3 weekly or monthly wouldn't bother me.

thecoffeehouse204

We have four bins!:-

Brown bin for garden and food waste is fortnightly.
Green bin for paper and card, Blue for plastics and glass and Grey for anything else is three weekly. Problem is there is a lot of plastics our council won't collect so the grey bin gets filled up very quickly with these so we do struggle with a three weekly collection.

Gloomendoom

Once a fortnight

AndyBSG wrote: »

As you can imagine sorting all that lot out is a complete nightmare and we regularly have our paper and card collections refused because there are no clear guidelines on what is classed as card.

I've had the same problem. Corrugated cardboard in particular.

I just burn it now.

TBagpuss

recycling and food waste once a week
garden waste once a fortnight
other waste once a fortnight
(garden waste and general waste alternate, so there is a collection every week)