Bin Collections

[Alex]

Outrage in UK city as black bin collections set to be reduced to just once a month
Black bin collections could be reduced to once every four weeks under drastic proposals by Bristol City Council.

As council policy goes this seems a bit of a stinker !  Our black bin is collected once a fortnight, the other three bins go out the same time, also once a fortnight.   It would make more sense to me if they collected two bins one week and the other two the next week, but what do I know, there must be a reason I suppose.




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[klondike]

Ours get done once a fortnight as, I assume, do most.

During one of my regular daily walks I've often seen rats running across a walkway alongside a school and the other day there was one running down the pavement in a residential street nearby. I would expect such sightings to become considerably more frequent if the cycle is pushed to 4 weeks. The bins would just not be big enough for larger households and there would be more fly tipping for sure.

[dextrous63]

If there were more tips around, then I'd imagine more people would be happier to do a trip to one fairly regularly, which would take pressure off the required size of the bin lorry fleet.

[1955vintage]

Ours are collected every three weeks but would not be a problem if it went to four.

But we do not have children.

[muddy]

If there were more tips around, then I'd imagine more people would be happier to do a trip to one fairly regularly, which would take pressure off the required size of the bin lorry fleet.

We go to the tip quite regularly .
Its very sociable people are busy chucking stuff away with gay abandon .
There  is something very therapeutic about heaving stuff into giant bins .
The tip guys are our new best friends .

[Ashy]

Our local council has closed our tip, so that's blown their 15 minute neighbourhood out the water.

[Mups]

Our bins are emptied each week,  but alternate bins go.
 The landfill stuff + small kitchen waste bin goes one week,  and the recycling, garden waste,  and again the little kitchen waste caddy thing   goes the following week. 
 We can also put out small electrical items e.g. hairdryers, irons, etc  every week.


My nearest Tip doesn't open on Mondays or Tuesdays,  but is open Wednesday till Sunday.
There are nearly always tip-men  lurking about,  presumably watching what people throw in the skips.

There are always such long queues though,  sometimes right round the tip and out the gate onto the road outside.   They have got notices up saying   'No queuing on the road,'  -   or something like that.

I remember when you could buy stuff there for just a few quid,  but all that has stopped, and now they have got an old warehouse-type building in town where the better stuff goes off for resale.

[klondike]

My local tip appears to open fewer days and shorter hours and if you fail to check properly is likely to be shut when you arrive. Often there are long queues to get in. The layout is terrible. Two rows of cars park down the centre and you have to take stuff from the car in your arms across the roadways each side of the parked cars up steep ramps to the correct skip.

I prefer to drive 10 miles to the one I used when living out of town which is at least convenient to use. What I usually do now is hide forbidden items into the middle of the bin in black bags. I've got away with that so far and haven't been to either tip in years. What others do is fly tip around the charity clothes skips over the road or around the street litter bins. It's quite common to see mattresses and the like dumped. Dumped domestic appliances do at least get collected by the local pikey van when dumped in the street.

[dextrous63]

I'm gobsmacked to hear about the shortage of tips.  Off the top of my head I can think of 6 within a 10 mile radius from my house, all open 7 days a week.

[muddy]

It 16 miles to my local tip.
I don't know why councils don't leave a large skip once a week for stuff to descourage the fly tipping cretins 

[GrannyMac]

Our local tip is open 7 days.  Ages since we've been, the last item disposed of was a defunct pressure washer. OH just broke it up and put it in the bin. Our black bin (non recycling) is collected every two weeks, the blue (paper) and brown (bottles and tins) once a month so we have a weekly collection. 

We could probably manage with once a month for the black bin, but larger households may not.

[Diasi]

I'm a avid recycler & do my best to put all the items in the correct bins & take other items to the recycling centre. 

Our recycling centre is a 5 minute drive & it's extremely efficiently organised with helpful staff.

Also it's on the way to the school so I can combine our recycling trip with the school run.