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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

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 · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:43 am Post subject:

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!

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Peter Dolman · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject:

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.
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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

Peter Dolman · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:02 am Post subject:

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.
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pimpdriver · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:14 am Post subject:

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)

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pimpdriver · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:50 am Post subject:

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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

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