UPLIFTING FOR HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH.why a lift every 2 weeks insread of 1 week.even with recylceing inplace.h?

Question

is this against public health and safety/enveritomental health also. why do we pay council tax which covers this servide? when the council can charge you if your bin is to full? is it just me or has the world gone crazy!!!!

to wanda. i do not buy wastful products. i can not do compost ect. i live in the city,in an apartment which i love and love living in the city. so i cannot do compost no garden. i do not drive a car. i use public transport. i do recycle.it sounds like you live in the country. this policy affects the countryside too. please do tell me all people in the c/side recycle,use compost.they do not. i lived in the real counrtyside for more than 25 years. i hated it. thats why i live in the city.

Answer 1

we have uplifts every 2 weeks but we dont get our council tax lowered as we are getting less for our money, to me if there going from weekly to fortnightly we should get a rebate, but no it just keeps going up,typical

Answer 2

It used to be the law that householders could demand that their refuse was removed within seven days and if the Council failed they had to pay compensation – not a lot of people knew that but as almost all Councils collected weekly it was not an issue. That law was changed several years ago and now Councils are starting to take advantage of the relaxation and the Government is encouraging them to do so by reducing funding for refuse collection. The weekly collection was introduced for a good reason though and it is all to do with the life cycle of flies and the spread of disease. By removing rubbish every week, any eggs that have been laid in the rubbish do not have time to hatch and grow into adult flies and I am sure that the move to fortnightly collections will lead to increasing problems with both smell and flies. The Government advice to Councils is to introduce the changes in the winter, when flies and smell will not be an issue, so there will be fewer objections. I really think it is a bad move and that it will cause problems for Councils that do change. Just watch for the complaints and the health scare stories that start to come out next summer and for which fortnightly refuse collections are blamed.

Answer 3

It is a political decision to force people to recycle more so that the councils can reach their targets.
The demands of the EC Landfill Directive are making Local Authorities look at ways of increasing recycling and an increasingly used option is the alternate week collections.
The reasons behind this backdoor compulsion of the population is the reluctance of many to recycle, even when there are perfectly good schemes, and the poor progress through planning of the alternatives such as Incineration and Mechanical Biological Treatment, mainly due to NIMBY-ism stopping the march of technical progress to find alternatives to landfill.
The other problem is the lack of progress in reducing the amount of packaging especially from supermarkets and the junk food industry.
The cost of waste disposal is going through the roof and the councils have to make economies as well or your rates would being going ballistic
Where I lived went alternate weeks some years ago and it works if you use it properly.

Answer 4

Reduce, and reuse. It makes a lot of sense to me. Don't buy wasteful products.

And as far as filling you trash bin, compost instead! Try it a week, and you'll see the amazing difference it makes.
Read about starting a compost pile, even a bin, with kitchen scraps

I do support towns forcing people to take rational measures...

Answer 5

Our country has gone crazy, can you immagine in a hot summer the smell of rotting rubbish outside your door, councils keep making cuts, but they don't cut their tax charges.

Answer 6

no, you're crazy