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I agree with you entirely Bassingbourne. This is yet another example of us paying twice for a service, not unlike the proposed polls on roads for which we already pay tax.
The subject of refuse-collection is a particular bugbear of mine. As I pay through the nose for the removal of rubbish via my council-tax, I fail to see why I should be expected to filter through my detritus to separate it into different categories for different bins [here in my part of the country we have green bins for certain household waste..blue bins for another.] This should be the responsibility of those PAID to do the job. I have a good friend who gave up teaching to drive a bin lorry. He isn’t allowed to take any extra bin-bags or bins with the “wrong” rubbish in ’em or any rubbish atall on days with a “Y” in ’em and the council is piling in the money and the streets are piling up the craap! :x :x :x

I hate the bloody new bins with a vengeance

We have Green bins for usual rubbish and Blue bins for “green” rubbish – if you know what I mean – ffs they cant even get the colours right
Now a proposed new bin “Brown” for green – as in garden waste ffs – although – you have to pay for this one
so no doubt people will be nicking Brown bins before long

Anywya back to the story – the collections are now blue bin (green) one week , green bin the next week
So if you say have a chicken the day after the green bin collection – the carcass is in the bin for nearly 2 weeks – in summer no matter how many plastic bags you wrap it up in – the bloody flies will get to it – then you have a bin full of maggots – which the council will probably refuse to empty
So we now have a maggot bin (black) which is collected on the 29th February

I make at least one trip a week to the local tip so that my bins dont overflow

I used to be keen on recycling but now it’s gone too far. We have a weekly recycling collection including little brown bins for waste food and a box for paper, bottles and tins. All fine, except perhaps the rotting food! But the problem is the main bin collection is now evert 2 weeks instead of every week. There are only 3 of us and the wheelie bin is always full after 2 weeks – bigger families must have problems.

I also take garden waste and cardboard to the tip. There, they also collect plastic bottles for recycling and I used to take them up there. But the onset of recycling fatigue means the plastic bottles now go in the wheelie bin. Waste food is next!

I live in a flat without any outside space so can’t have a wheelie bin of any colour. I also don’t drive & the nearest tip is 6 miles away so rubbish removal is a nightmare. I get delivered 2 rolls of ‘pink’ sacks & each sack is much smaller than the average black sack I could buy at the local pound shop. I only get enough to use two of these a week.

By the time I have cooked meals from scratch so all peelings/meat etc are in plus other non recycling rubbish, unused food, cat litter etc. it is a health hazard to have it in the house so I do have to put it out early. I haven’t had anyone moaning yet but it is only a matter of time.

If I use all the bags before the next lot are delivered I have to go to the council offices and pay nearly £20 for another roll! But recycling bags are only available from the council offices . They will only give one roll per person & they open Mon – Fri 9.30 – 4.30. How are you supposed to recycle when you can’t even get the f’in bags?

Its about time this government put people before profits. If we can afford an illegal war we can quite easily afford decent rubish collection.