| Rubbish - fortnightly collections
Thought I'd start a new thread on the question of rubbish collections.
Where I live fortnightly collections of wheelie bins was introduced at least two years ago - household rubbish one week and garden rubbish the next. Despite hot weather on occasions I cannot say that we have experienced any excessive smells, flies etc. when the contents sit around for this amount of time, and if you are away occasionally the rubbish may remain there for a month - again no noticeable problems (although some residents feel differently). Wrapping smelly fish or meat waste well, before dumping in the bin, helps.
However, the garden waste bins are emptied fortnighly throughout the year too, whilst there is probably no need for such a frequent service in the winter - less of these bins are put out during this period. The large wagons still travel the streets pumping out their emissions, perhaps needlessly. On this collection day a green box with tins and bottles is collected as is a blue bag with papers in it (possibly by different collectors). I wonder why the councils don't cut back on the collection of garden waste in the winter at least for a few weeks and just ask the public to leave the box and bag on household rubbish collection day too. Surely it would make both environmental and economic sense.
Tinkerbell  |