A quality refuse collection service

Confusing...!

My council does pretty well I think anyway, normal rubbish (Green bin) every Tuesday, then glass, paper, tins (blue bin) every other Tuesday, alternating with garden waste (brown bin) collection. Bulky items collected free if you ring & ask. Works for us

I'm absolutely fine with mine too - normal rubbish, glass, cans and paper in week one, compostables, plastic and card week 2 (alternating). bulky waste collection on request. my only gripe is that i wish they'd collect a little later in themorning (ie not 6.30am) as if we put the light plastics+card wheelie bin out the night before either high winds or drunk kids play havoc!

loads of people round here do complain that their bin isnt big enough (recycle more then... while many people have got the option to just bin it they simply won't recycle).

I'm really impressed with mine, and they're about to change it to make it even better.

Currently we get general rubbish and compost matter (they'll take just about anything in that) taken every monday, with glass and plastics alternating fortnightly with paper/card.

From "soon" they'll be taking general rubbish fortnightly, and recycling weekly - they do seem determined to get people recycling more - apparently last year the borough recycled 40% of its waste, which seems pretty good going to me.

What you doing down in the Aude PW? Thinking of relocating?

We get paper, tins, glass & textiles one week and 'rubbish' the other week - thats Kennet DC for ya!

We have alternate weekly collections, recycling one week, includes paper, card, plastic bottles and glass, other rubbish the next. I use the bokashi and compost bins, so even with a family of 5, we barely fill the 'normal' rubbish in the fortnight. The cat litter and plastic we can't recycle makes up the bulk of it. It is a shame there is so much plastic that can't be recycled. As virtually all the organic waste is composted one way or another, I don't see that we will have too much problem with smells or flies. The only thing is that garden waste that doesn't go into the compost for one reason or another has to be taken to the tip, because I don't have enough to make it worth paying the monthly brown bin charge.

Why are you paying £ in france?

wow I wish I could afford to move. I am rather better off than some where I am in so far as the refuse collectors come in and remove for me. However we do not have a green composting service or cardboard etc. Very limited tins and plastic bottles. We have a paper collection also but no envelopes.

I mentioned it as we have to fight to get large items collected and have weekly collections for everything else. Greenwaste is not collected at all (not that we give that away anyway). Lots of people here have fortnightly collections now and I for one would not be impressed with that.

And the cost of the council tax, I pay more than that a month, its in £ claygarden so it reflects the true cost compared to our bills.

We have green bins compost waste, and black bins plastics on alternate weeks, tins, glass, milk containers and papers same day as compost. Unfortunately they don't take other plastic so we take them to recycling centre ourselves.
Wish they would take compost waste weekly as it gets very smelly in the summer and that's with us composting everything we can ourselves.
We have been sorting our own rubbish long before the council did anything about it, its second nature to our kids.

As for the waste, we do not produce that much, we compost kitchen waste and recycle as much as possible (even stuff not collected in the green tray, we just take it to the local recycling bank -I hate it when people's excuse for not recycling is that there are items the council won't collect, there's other ways!-).

The one thing that really gets me about PW's post is the cost of Council Tax, now that really is upsetting!!!

Our waste collection is paid for seperately on a pay per use basis:
€80 per year flat rate plus
€3.60 per bin lift plus
€0.20 per kg of waste

For a weekly general waste collection (Thursdays) - I generally put our (purple) bin out about once a month.

There is a fortnightly green bin collection for paper, plastics (1 + 2 only), tins etc.

One of the other thursdays a month there is a seperate green bin for glass - only additional charge of €4 per lift (no charge for other green bin)

No brown bin yet in our area, but there is a bring centre close by where we can bring plastics 4 + 5, as well as polystyrene (6), batteries, lightbulbs, clothes.

If I went back to the LA collection, I would have the same collections (only on a Friday), except that green bin would take plastic 4 as well, but no glass bin. I think there is a plan for brown bins sometime next year. And all this for 25% higher charges.

The 4 local authorities in this city have decided jointly recently that we can't have private collections anymore on a pure competition basis. Instead, all providers will have to tender for specific collection routes and everyone on that route will have to take that provider- like it or not. Just cos people are actually voting with their feet and moving away from the LA's (who signed a contract a few years back guaranteeing a waste supply for an incinderator - generally considereed to be the main reason why they are coming the heavy on private competition this way).

my waste collection is pretty good to, they pick up tin, foil, card, paper, clothes and batteries, engine oil, shoes, glass, every wednesday with my ground waste. I do have to buy bags for my green waste for them to pick up every two weeks but then i compost as much as i can, my only problem is plastic, i use large bottles and box type containers in the garden but other stuff i take down my local tescos, some tescos have bins where you can earn points per so many items, as for council tax well my local tax hasn't risen for 2 years now just the services tax
where my mum is now though they are charging to have a bin, not just to buy the bin but a yearly rate just for having one and this is separate to the council tax bill, and for those who dont have a car i think it is unfair, i dont think the bus drivers would be too please with the ole dears taking there refuse to places via bus

not everyone has a car though!

Nor does mapcr77