U turn by the tories.

[Hots on]

you can actually manage waste by compressing and sorting. Tins flattened etc...Keeps massive trucks off the rd, holding up other traffic and knocking off wing mirrors. A little extra work I know but all that can crushing by hand can give you man hands.

 

 

We are all mugs for allowing ourselves do the work of a private company for them for free.

[Vague_Boy]

Either way woodmally, it must have influenced how some people voted.

 

First I've heard of it, so I guess the answer to that is.... no.

[El Cid]

First I've heard of it, so I guess the answer to that is.... no.

 

Eric Pickles was in charge of it, so everyone just ignored him.

[Isabelle]

No i'm being accurate, i have a bin emptied every week.

The job gets done,it simply means i take a millisecond to seperate items.

Apart from idleness what is the benefit of emptying every bin every week?

 

Do most people actually want them emptying weekly, or just some of them?

We certainly don't "want it".

 

We have just about enough room in our black bin to last a fortnight, but it is the hygiene aspect. The other week I put my bin out and loads of maggots started crawling all over it from inside. I can only put it down to the warm weather, everything is bagged in there, and we didn't put anything untoward in there like rotting meat

And yes, I do recycle, anything that I can I put in the blue bin.

[Happ Hazzard]

In Spain they have DAILY bin collection. 364 days a year I believe. And their council tax is about 1/5 of ours. So clearly they must be doing something right.

[geared]

Don't they also have crippling amounts of debt, poor job prospects and crazy amounts of corruption as well??

 

Not sure we should be modelling ourselves on Spain to be honest.

[RonJeremy]

In Spain they have DAILY bin collection. 364 days a year I believe. And their council tax is about 1/5 of ours. So clearly they must be doing something right.

 

There's a separate bin tax in spain. I forget what it's called. They also have an issue with heat there - food and bin knocking about for a few days would be an issue, so it is a priority.

The bins are not collected from the house either - you have to put them in the community bin area. If this is outside your house, it isn't great!!

 

In the same way that Sweden has a great deal of snow clearers at the ready in winter, because they know snow is going to be a problem.

 

We usually have neither problem.

 

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"Basura" is the bin tax. Good old Google

[TJC1]

I voted tory simply on this one pledge....I feel sickened by this utter betrayal. Bins are over flowing, there's chaos in the street, life is not worth living anymore...

 

It's the last time I ever trust a politician. The scoundrels.

 

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In Spain they have DAILY bin collection. 364 days a year I believe. And their council tax is about 1/5 of ours. So clearly they must be doing something right.

 

Spain are also broke....

[alchresearch]

Returns to weekly collections were approved, but few councils took them up on it.

 

From Jan:

 

Tough talk on bins exposed as rubbish after NO councils sign up to £250million fund to restore weekly collections

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2908907/Pickles-bins-collection-fund-weekly-rounds-used-zero-councils-authority-considered-decided-expensive.html

 

So you can't blame the gov if that earmarked and unused money is now going elsewhere. The people to blame here are councils.

[carosio]

Do not despair, when Jeremy is crowned P.M. he will direct that every bin will be emptied daily, perfumed then given a final polish!