Would a two week dustbin pick up work.

Top Dog · Would a two week dustbin pick up work.

Calne is lucky to have there dustbins picked up every week.If they indroduced a two weekly collection in calne would it work?

rosco

Nope, I am against that - trouble with a two week pickup is, if you miss one (say you're out that day or away for a short break) your rubbish would have to wait up to 4 weeks to get picked up, rather than two as at present. That's just too long to my view.

All that psuedo-science to say that two weeks is long enough to avoid maggots forming just doens't convince me either I am afraid!
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Local lass

There was a rticle how there is a soar in rats in this country.
with a two week collection this can only get worse.
the bin men need to be more flexable as it is.sometime you cant get it all in the one bin you are provided and the bin men wont take just bags.
no wonder there is such a increase in fly tipping.

Bear

Sorry but once a week is what I pay my "Poll Tax" for and that is what I expect.

Kizzy

If the council collected my rubbish (which they don't) I would like it at least once a week - I don't get that service but I pay for it in my council tax

Local lass

The problem is they will probley change it to two weeks collections malbrough and devizes i belive is two weeks.there will be nothing we can do about it :twisted:

Bear

Peter Dolman · 2 weekly bin collections are on their way!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This may be a thread that is a year old but it is a topic that has not gone away.

2 weekly bin collections has just been introduced in Cricklade and is likely to be introduced into Calne.

The powers to be beleive that they can persuade "us" to recycle more by bringing in the 2 weekly regime.

Everyother week they would collect waste food, biomass & cans/paper etc and then ordinary refuse the following week.

Local politicians can be under no doubt the majority of the voters do not want 2 weekly bin collections under any circumstances, why are they so arrogant to ignore what people want. Is it surprising that voters stay away from the ballot box.

If the politicians are serious about improving recycling then put recycling boxes on every street, introduce compulsory recycling for all shops and business's.

Make shops, especially supermarkets to reduce the amount of packaging and ban plastic bags.
There is lots that can be done but why aren't we?

GTB

Where I live (in the Kennet District area) we have fortnightly bin collections which was done to push people into recycling more. The fact of the matter is that by the time the rubbish is collected the bins are overflowing with rotting refuse and the recycling tubs are also overflowing. Kennet will issue you with orange bin bags which is the only colour that they will manually collect when your bins are being emptied. Whether it is saving the council money by doing this I'm not sure but the weight of rubbish must mean the lorries have to make a trip to the tip half way through their rounds which adds more time and fuel to the task in hand.

Attrebates

Local lass

two weekly collections will not only bring more people fly tipping but also more rats .wherei live every week nearly all the bins are over flowing so with two weekly they will have to put it in black sacks where cats will get at it.

Peter Dolman

Currently it is the District Council who has responsibility for refuse collection although that will transfer to County from next April.

The arguement is that it makes more people recycle but I am not convinced. It is all about cost and money available by central goverment. The EU have funds to encourage recycling and this is passed out by whitehall.

Voters who don't want 2 weekly collections should raise the subject at next Aprils elections for the new Unitary Authority. Get everyone you know to email all the candidates, perhaps they may get the message!

Upsy Daisy

Peter Dolman

I have been convinced since last year that recycling does improve considerably with fortnitghtly collections. In the altenative week you have recycling collections including, hopefully, waste for composting.

Local lass

Peter Dolman

With 2 of the 4 district councils already on the fortnightly collection system, they are the ones with a much higher recycling rate, a decision will have to be made when the new council is elected.

The government are more than doubling the cost of the landfill tax which means our councils need to recycle or our taxes will have to go up.

Most people want more recycling and less packaging on what we buy.

If you remove the emotion from the discussion then fortnightly collection seem to be the sensible way forward.

pimpdriver

In Bristol we had:

"wheelie bins" (in Bristol these were black, not GREEN which was for, lets say a novelty word, GREEN waste) which were emptied every 2 weeks.

We had glass, tins, paper, cardboard collected EVERY week.

And a "kitchen caddy" for cooked food waste. These were not sealed at the top and were ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING, as tiny fruit flies got in and laid eggs, which would turn into maggots very quickly.

If you had a "green" (i.e. for garden waste) bin (which is brown in Wiltshire), this was collected every week too, but you had to pay £50 a year for the privilege.

I do believe twice weekly bin collections would work, as long as (someone else has said), they collect plastic and cardboard (which are the largest volume).

It does make you really think about what you buy, and what packaging it is in, which is the whole idea.

At least with a wheelie bin, when it gets tipped into landfill, decomposable items have a chance of decomposing (when we use disposable nappies - once per day - we buy the ones which will decompose, as well as put them in decomposable nappy bags - but don't get me started on the mass market disposable nappy!!! - toxic timebomb)

Upsy Daisy

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Local lass

was going to say the same think as pimp that you can get bags even plastic which are bio degradeable.

Would a two week dustbin pick up work.

2 weekly bin collections are on their way!!!!!!!!!!!!!