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HAVE YOUR SAY

SHOULD COUNCILS BE FORCED TO EMPTY BINS EVERY WEEK?

Waste is being left on the streets awaiting collection

Friday February 1,2008

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

Tories say this will lead to a fly-tipping epidemic, with infestations of rats increasing countrywide.

Under the controversial system, household waste for landfill is picked up once a fortnight and rubbish that can be recycled is taken every other week, or sometimes more frequently.

The problem is set to worsen with five councils soon to be picked as pilot areas for the new “pay as you throw” tax system for bin collection. These taxes will be based on how much non-recyclable trash families put out.

Shadow Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said: “Gordon Brown is bullying councils into making savage cuts to frontline services such as rubbish collections, while council tax goes through the roof yet again.

“Under Labour the public has been clobbered with excessive council tax rises and for what? You pay more and get less under this Government.’’

We want to know what YOU think. Do you have problems with fly-tipping or rubbish collection where you live? Perhaps you feel you pay too much council tax and want to see results.

Have YOUR say below!

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

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

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