Prompted by a report today
Monthly bin collections and library closures: furious Bristol residents turn on Greens over council cuts
Guerrilla protest against low-traffic neighbourhood is latest backlash against newly-elected council
from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/01/bristol-protests-green-led-council-cuts
made me think about bin collections, thougfh the article and actions in Bristol seem maybve it's more about unhappyness with a Green Council and bin collections is only part of the issue.
But I'd be all in favour of 4 weekly bin collections. We're in effect already on two week intervals rthough one week it's the recycling bin, next week the landfill bin. I find I end up with nothing in the landfill bin most of the collections, my single kitchen landfill bin needing emptying with a single small binliner maybe every 4 weeks. Recycling maybe ends-up with trivial amount in the wheely bin every 2 weeks. And I in effect share a wheely bin with my neighbours.
So my reaction is where are people getting all this rubbish from? I'm probably an exception but it's a question of degree and I do think our politicians should be doing more to penalise production companies for unnecessary single use plastics eg why when across Europe do they manage to survive withy "naked" cucumbers whilst we in the UK seem to need to cover them in single use plastic?
Ian
Monthly bin collections and library closures: furious Bristol residents turn on Greens over council cuts
Guerrilla protest against low-traffic neighbourhood is latest backlash against newly-elected council
from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/01/bristol-protests-green-led-council-cuts
made me think about bin collections, thougfh the article and actions in Bristol seem maybve it's more about unhappyness with a Green Council and bin collections is only part of the issue.
But I'd be all in favour of 4 weekly bin collections. We're in effect already on two week intervals rthough one week it's the recycling bin, next week the landfill bin. I find I end up with nothing in the landfill bin most of the collections, my single kitchen landfill bin needing emptying with a single small binliner maybe every 4 weeks. Recycling maybe ends-up with trivial amount in the wheely bin every 2 weeks. And I in effect share a wheely bin with my neighbours.
So my reaction is where are people getting all this rubbish from? I'm probably an exception but it's a question of degree and I do think our politicians should be doing more to penalise production companies for unnecessary single use plastics eg why when across Europe do they manage to survive withy "naked" cucumbers whilst we in the UK seem to need to cover them in single use plastic?
Ian