weekly bin collections to start again.....

panther · 04-07-2007, 17:58

in blackburn!

Weekly Bin Collections To Start Again (from Lancashire Telegraph)

wonder if it will catch on over here, im not bothered if it doesnt, since the fortnightly scheme, i reduced my bins from 4 a week to 4 a fortnight

thanks to me recycling

garinda · 04-07-2007, 21:42

I'm quite happy with fortnightly collections.

I think the people who complain of more vermin being around, have a screw loose.

Wheelie bins have attached lids, unlike the old dustbins and black sacks, which were easy pickings for any dog/cat/fox worth it's salt.

Lilly · 04-07-2007, 21:50

We struggled somewhat with fortnightly collections when my daughter was in nappies,particularly in the summer months.Let me tell you,the honk of fortnight old poo in a heatwave was atrocious.Every time we opened the bin lid we would pass out.We couldn't cope in the end and had to resort to putting the nappies in a bin bag in the car and taking them up to the tip in between collections.We used to drive up to the tip with pegs on our noses and all the car windows wound down! Anyway,now she's 3 and out of nappies we manage fine on fortnightly collections,no problem

blazey · 04-07-2007, 22:00

I struggle every bin night with our bin and we recycle too. I dont know what is going wrong but my mum seems to manage filling loads and loads of bin bags and I'm the one who has to take them out on bin night.

I knocked the bin over the overnight accidently and wasn't strong enough to pick it back up, plus i had a pulled muscle that night in my kneck. Was a nightmare pulling it back up but I eventually did it.

Im normally at my boyfriends house all the time and they have 3 wheelie bins just to fit all their rubbish in, they fill three tin can tubs and more than their paper bag.
Glad I dont have to put all that out on bin/recycling night though. I still have to put bin bags just out as they are unless someone has space in their bin. The bin men never complain though.

WillowTheWhisp · 04-07-2007, 22:02

Yes the houses across the road from us have sacks because the bin wagon can't get up the back to deal with wheelie bins and they have steps up the front.

I know a weekly collection will only confuse me now but I do think it's preferable.

MargaretR · 04-07-2007, 22:03

I live in a flat and I have a bin to myself - dont make much waste - would take me 6 weeks to fill it *- and I only put out recyclables every 4 weeks.
*Ps - but the bin men still empty it fortnightly even though its only got 4 carrier bags in it

Royboy39 · 04-07-2007, 22:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by [email protected]

I live in a flat and I have a bin to myself - dont make much waste - takes me 6 weeks to fill it - and I only put out recyclables every 4 weeks.

If you have a flat on the ground floor you will have a bin.
The second and subsequent floors if there are any will not have bins.

Lilly · 04-07-2007, 22:07

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

If you have a flat on the ground floor you will have a bin.
The second and subsequent floors if there are any will not have bins.

What do they do with their rubbish then?

blazey · 04-07-2007, 22:08

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Originally Posted by Lilly

What do they do with their rubbish then?

chuck it over the side

MargaretR · 04-07-2007, 22:09

My flat is up a flight of 13 steps/ 1st floor

Royboy39 · 04-07-2007, 22:09

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Originally Posted by Lilly

What do they do with their rubbish then?

They have to store it in sheds until collection time.

Lilly · 04-07-2007, 22:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Royboy39

They have to store it in sheds until collection time.

What in,if they haven't got a bin?

Royboy39 · 04-07-2007, 22:10

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

My flat is up a flight of 13 steps/ 1st floor

Where is the bin?

cashman · 04-07-2007, 22:12

could happily live with fornightly, if was provided with PROPER RECEPTICALS, the sack full of cans etc n the blue box with glass is bloody useless, has to be carried through the house (dripping wet) in this weather, late at night, cos the yobbos scatter em all over the garden if it happens to suit em, and the collection is very early morning. why the hell we do not get 2/3 wheelie bins like other councils do is totally beyond me, n beyond the cretins at HBC. my daughter lives out of Hyndburn has a baby (plenty of crap) and her 3 work fine.

Tombraider · 04-07-2007, 22:12

My bin smells terrible at the end of the two weeks with 70 odd dirty baby nappies in there.