Our area is what you could call posh, Â geriatric villages, Â very expensive properties, Â but the bin bags are piled up just the same, Â I donât know how people can generate so much rubbish, Â thereâs usually only 2 people in a household. Ours is collected once a fortnight and ours goes out once a month in a compost sack, Â we laugh when we see huge piles of black bags.Â
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Our council does not collect green waste or food waste, just general rubbish in one small wheelie bin and recyclables in a bigger bin. Sizes of bins are allocated according to the number of people in the household. Overflow is not allowed and they are emptied every other week except in July and August (holiday let season).  Papers, cardboard, bottles etc have to be taken to recycling centres and bottle banks which need a council resident card to get in and use.
We don't have food waste because I tend to cook just enough or have plans for leftovers. The dogs get any meat scraps and all raw vegetable waste either goes to the hen or into compost corner which, when full, is emptied on the compost heap.
I'm looking forward to seeing if Paris based politicians and civil servants have the wit and magination needed to organise efficient and manageable composting systems for people living in apartment blocks and shared housing given the amount of general rubbsh already lying around in some quarters.
It is surprising when you see so much Black Bin Wa6te but I'm assuming it often depemds on how many people inhabit each property and what their habits are. The Council Tax in my area ( which covers general black bin and food waste - Green bins not included ) is the same cost for however many people reside in a similarly rated property with a 25 % reduction for a single resident. More rubbish generatef per inhabitant one assumes? Thatcher's attempt at introducing her Poll tax would have been a fairer method had she called it something else - Community Charge perhaps ? She had the right idea but combined with her other policies, she was destined to fail with this one. If each individual of a working age had to pay for their Waste, maybe some would take a different attitude ? Â
No black bin bags out around here. Each property is issued with one black wheelie bin, emptied every three weeks, with dire warnings that you arenât allowed to put so much in that the lid wonât close. One food waste bin, a sack for recyclables such as cans, plastic bottles and food trays, plus a box for glass bottles and jars, cardboard and paper, as well as batteries and small electrical items like broken toasters and kettles. These are all collected weekly, and anything extra that wonât fit in the containers can be left on top in bags. The local town has several roads of terraced houses, with no room to store a big wheelie bin. Residents are issued with âgull proof â bags to leave their rubbish out in. Seems to work ok. East Devon has one of the highest recycling rates in the country.
She did call it Community Charge @philippasmith2 but the popular press dubbed it the Poll tax and she never got the PR wheels rolling well enough to counteract that negativity.  It was one good idea she had and it failed thru lack of vision and management.
A similar lack of vision on her part led to horrors such as the privatisation of essential services.  Such was her lack of understanding of human nature and The City that she didn't have the imagination to realise they would all end up being run for profits for shareholders and owners rather than the benefit of the people using them.
@philippasmith2 It was officially called Community Charge. It was those opposed to everybody paying towards council costs who used the term Poll Tax. I totally agree that it would be a much fairer way of funding council costs. There are 2 of us in our house, and the same for the neighbours on one side. On the other is a family of 3 generations comprising 4 adults and 2 children. 3 of the 4 adults are working, the other took early retirement (as is their rights) They have a larger bin for general waste and normally put out 2 or 3 sets of recycling bins every week. We only need to put recycling out every two weeks. I'd love anybody to explain to me how all 3 households being charged the same amount is fair.
Sounds better than we have in West Devon, Â 3 separate containers for recycling. Â No wheelie bin. Two waste bins for food, never used.Â
Builders bags for green waste, also not used, they are but not for collection.Â
We currently have 4 recycling bins - card and paper, glass, plastic, food waste. There is an additional charge for garden waste bins which apparently they won't be abel charge if/when the new rules come in.
Trying to take stuff to the recycling centre is a pain in the backside as you have to book a 30 minute time slot and can rarely get one the same day.
A massive incinerator has been built in our area to do away with the requirement for massive landfill tips. Even that hasn't pleased the environmental lobby, although they seem incapable of coming up with a practical alternative.
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Ours is collected once a fortnight and ours goes out once a month in a compost sack, Â we laugh when we see huge piles of black bags.Â
We don't have food waste because I tend to cook just enough or have plans for leftovers. The dogs get any meat scraps and all raw vegetable waste either goes to the hen or into compost corner which, when full, is emptied on the compost heap.
I'm looking forward to seeing if Paris based politicians and civil servants have the wit and magination needed to organise efficient and manageable composting systems for people living in apartment blocks and shared housing given the amount of general rubbsh already lying around in some quarters.
Thatcher's attempt at introducing her Poll tax would have been a fairer method had she called it something else - Community Charge perhaps ? She had the right idea but combined with her other policies, she was destined to fail with this one.
If each individual of a working age had to pay for their Waste, maybe some would take a different attitude ? Â
One food waste bin, a sack for recyclables such as cans, plastic bottles and food trays, plus a box for glass bottles and jars, cardboard and paper, as well as batteries and small electrical items like broken toasters and kettles. These are all collected weekly, and anything extra that wonât fit in the containers can be left on top in bags.Â
The local town has several roads of terraced houses, with no room to store a big wheelie bin. Residents are issued with âgull proof â bags to leave their rubbish out in. Seems to work ok. East Devon has one of the highest recycling rates in the country.
A similar lack of vision on her part led to horrors such as the privatisation of essential services.  Such was her lack of understanding of human nature and The City that she didn't have the imagination to realise they would all end up being run for profits for shareholders and owners rather than the benefit of the people using them.