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Should councils be forced to empty bins every week?

THE nation is in danger of being buried under a mountain of rubbish as nearly half of councils move to fortnightly collections.

SURELY A WEEKLY COLLECTION ISN'T TOO MUCH TO ASK...

21.02.08, 8:58pm

considering the amount of council tax we pay!!

I would like to know where my council tax is going because it's not being spent on the local NHS service (nearest hospital 10 miles away unable to cope with the amount of towns/villages it covers). It's not being spent on the local police or education.
Now we are having once a fortnight rubbish collections, I'd love to know how they can justify the extra council tax we are charged.

• Posted by: jksennen • Report Comment

COUNCIL SHOULD EMPTY BINS

16.02.08, 9:31pm

They should be emptied every week, we pay enough council tax - we don't see many police (which we pay for in our council tax) so let us have something out of it. Let's all move to the Canaries, they seem to have got it right.

• Posted by: lorna69 • Report Comment

DUSTBIBS

15.02.08, 10:45am

Councils should be made to collect rubbish weekly from households, especially in the summer. We are on a fortnightly collection, and as a result we use much more plastic as we feel it necessary to double wrap everything especially since we have seen people's dustbins on hot days, crawling with maggots, and the housefly population has increased necessitating the use of ultra violet fly catchers in the kitchen. The supermarkets now are very sparing with their bags so we have to buy bags to put the rubbish in. Our Council do not re-cycle plastic as they say it is very lightweight and as they get paid by weight, it is uneconomical to recycle, so all plastic wrappings and bottles have to go into the rubbish bin. They only re-cycle tins, glass bottles, paper (not shredded) and cardboard. If we want to recycle plastic, it has to be taken to a tip, and as we have no car, this is not possible for us. The bins have to be put out by 6.30 a.m. and this is very difficult for the elderly, especially in cold, icy weather. We seem to be paying more and more rates and having to do the work ourselves.

• Posted by: Pat128 • Report Comment

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SHOULD COUNCILS BE FORCED TO EMPTY BINS EVERY WEEK?

09.02.08, 8:39pm

Clearly each council should respect public health and thid I suspect would warrant at least one emptying of all household dustbins every week. Once rubbish piles up and there is no room to place it in the dusbin it then is left near the bin in many caes either in plastic bags or carton boxes, and is open to rats and all kinds of rodents. The heat of summer days adds to the health problem to as the smell gets worse and the residential enviroment suddenly becomes an unseen high source of infection for every family. I think that the UK population pay enough in council taxes to have a decent rubbbish collection service on a regular basis to keep their area clean and free from infection and disease that spreads in rubbish via various means. The UK public health authorities likewise have a place in all of this as they can impose heavy fines for any are that is not to health standards and causes a danger to the population.

• Posted by: BrianGB • Report Comment

RIN TIN TIN YOU'RE IN THE WRONG BIN

08.02.08, 9:35am

Yes, councils should be made to empty bins on a weekly basis.

They should also have their powers to fine people; revoked. For putting rubbish, sometimes by mistake, [usually through lack of knowledge as to what goes where] into the wrong bin, is now an offence.

What I can't understand is what the fuss was all about regarding fortnightly collections.

It took Downing street 10 years to get rid of the trash.

• Posted by: Armageddon • Report Comment

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PERHAPS

07.02.08, 4:43pm

the Government are trying to make our country more like the places all of the immigrants have came from.... flies, fats, filth in the streets...

Water people can't afford.....

Sounds like here already doesn't it?

Everyone should stop paying their council tax en masse if this happens, see what the greed swines do about it then.

Surely, they can't afford to take everyone with a house to court?

Worth a try innit?

(Luckily, where I live, the council is staying with weekly collections)

• Posted by: SandieL • Report Comment

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ON THEIR HEADS BE IT.

07.02.08, 11:56am

People should empty their own bins on councillors heads.

• Posted by: HomerSimpson • Report Comment

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THEY SHOULD BE EMPTIED EVERY NIGHT

07.02.08, 12:38am

I just do not understand why everybody has there own dustbin with an army of men to empty them at all. In the Canaries we have communal skips that are emptied everynight, by just one wagon driver and one helper. In the cities they are built underground communal ones and you put your rubbish down a shute into them, again they are emptied everynight throuout the night. Our rates are absolute peanuts to find each year

• Posted by: mogan2008 • Report Comment

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DAILY WASTE COLLECTION

05.02.08, 5:52am

In so called third world Malaysia where I live the rubbish and household waste are collected daily and our council tax is a fraction of what I would pay back home. The locals themselves say that what they pay in council tax is reasonable for the services they provide. How many can say that in the UK?

• Posted by: Lagenda • Report Comment

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NO

04.02.08, 6:46pm

They ahould empty bins twice a week they have enough tax.

• Posted by: Fedup • Report Comment

THE TROUBLE IS APATHY!

04.02.08, 10:11am

If people bothered to recycle correctly there is no need for a general refuse collection weekly. My council does general rubbish one week, garden and recyclables the next and if people follow the rules that's perfectly adequate! My road is made up of larger family properties and smaller properties with generally older or single people living in them. What I find incredulous is the fact that it is the families who seem to cope best!
Some green boxes get put out with one jar in them - that's one jar for a fortnight. How do these people do it? My recycling receptacles are always full!

• Posted by: BrainFreeze • Report Comment

BIN EMPTYING

03.02.08, 4:33pm

Of course we need bins emptied every week. In my area the Council reduced the number of rubbish collecting vehicles - reduced the men employed to collect the bins and yet the council tax goes up and up We are soon to be provided with another two bins making a total of 4 - all for different items to be placed into. Yet, recently when my husband went to our local refuse tip and tried to sort out the items he took there into the various skipsp he was told to dump it all in one as they had nobody to deal with the various skips. The Council aren't doing what they tell us to do. As gas prices are going so high we are opening up our chimney and we are going to burn as much of our rubbish as we can just as we did years agi when we had coal fires.

• Posted by: Doveleys • Report Comment

HMMM...

03.02.08, 2:25pm

looks like 'reliant' might be the reincarnation of 'defiant'.

you know reliant/defiant, once you are banned you should not be allowed back on the site.

• Posted by: nofreespeechhere • Report Comment

I AM NOT VINCE

02.02.08, 9:55pm

Defiintely my own person, reliant...

• Posted by: hmhb • Report Comment

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SHOULD CRAZY COUNCILS BE FORCED TO EMPTY BINS EVERY WEEK.

02.02.08, 7:20pm

The person from Argentina has hit the nail on the head, he puts his rubbish out every night in supermarket carrier bags and they are collected 6 days per week. Easy enit.
Just watch the cronies of Judas Jock start to make £millions out of OUR recycling if we are mugs enough to do it.
I do not care a flying frog about saving the earth because I think to myself ' whom am I leaving it to' answer, scumbag foreign invaders whom I do not want in MY country.
I will not advise anyone to dump there own rubbish on their council house doorstep like I will as I could be prosecuted for incitement to commit a crime.

• Posted by: Robertz • Report Comment

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