About 18 months back we were forced onto fortnightly collections, (Lib Dems got in at the local elections) alternating between normal waste and recycleable/garden waste.
To put it bluntly it didn't work, and turned out to be a right fiasco. Most families struggling with only the one waste bin, and more often than not that said bin being full after only one week. Woe betide you if your bin lid didn't close properly, all you got was a sticker on your bin telling you to take some of the contents out but don't leave it in a black bin bag at the side for the next time, because that won't get moved as well. But it did tell you where the nearest tip was, (sorry recycling centre) so you could then get in your car (more pollution) to make a trip to get rid of that you are already paying for in council tax.
Eventually people had had enough and voted Labour back in control but that was only because they promised to bring back weekly collections in their pre election leaflets. So now for the time being we're back to weekly collection, there's no complaints on the local papers letters page, theres no smells from the bins and neighbours have to think of another subject to talk about.
Maybe after this latest announcement we'll have the waste disposal subject again.
To put it bluntly it didn't work, and turned out to be a right fiasco. Most families struggling with only the one waste bin, and more often than not that said bin being full after only one week. Woe betide you if your bin lid didn't close properly, all you got was a sticker on your bin telling you to take some of the contents out but don't leave it in a black bin bag at the side for the next time, because that won't get moved as well. But it did tell you where the nearest tip was, (sorry recycling centre) so you could then get in your car (more pollution) to make a trip to get rid of that you are already paying for in council tax.
Eventually people had had enough and voted Labour back in control but that was only because they promised to bring back weekly collections in their pre election leaflets. So now for the time being we're back to weekly collection, there's no complaints on the local papers letters page, theres no smells from the bins and neighbours have to think of another subject to talk about.
Maybe after this latest announcement we'll have the waste disposal subject again.