OK fortnightly bin collections.?

Question

Right our house waste is not going to be collected now till every second monday, which is just not good to the enviroment air we are breathing, and test have shown that bins that are not emptyed weekly have the bactira that caused the black plague. and now the goverment thinks it fine to put microchips in our bins to scan how much we are recyling, ok so i dont recycle everything i should..i dont take the lables of my jam jars.. what do you guys think about this.

Answer 1

In Ireland, we have 2 bins, a green bin, for papers, cans, tins and I think they will soon take plastic bottles. Although I recycle my plastic bottles along with my glass bottles in the recycling bins in the local park.
Our other bin, which is collected weekly costs 8euro, every time we leave it out. Note the green bin is free.
The result, most people recycle, and only leave their bins out, fortnightly or depending on how many is in your household, weekly or even monthly. The option is there for weekly
I heard there was talk of having a third bin, for compost, but where we would all fit these bins I don't know.

It met with resistance when it was first introduced, the same as the levy for plastic bags, and remember Ireland was the 1st to introduce the smoking ban.....
But now, it's second nature, to recycle, bring your own bags and not smoke in front of others. Smokers in Ireland don't even smoke in their own homes now!!!

It's just the way the world is going,land fill is no longer an option

Answer 2

The UN recommend weekly collections in temperate regions like ours. This is to do with the life cycle of the common nuisance flies in the region, with reproductive cycles of 7 - 10 days. Fortnightly collections of 'rottable' materials are for that reason alone unacceptable to the UN. The problem could be elevated by getting a cheap compost bin from your local authority and composting your food waste. However if you do not have the space this is a bit of an academic solution. Recycling glass is a strange one, for years glass jars and bottles wee returned to the shop for the return of a small deposit for reuse. The greatest 'cost' of recycling glass is the energy required to melt the glass down, we envisage no shortage of the materials required to manufacture glass. So in many ways it is a step backwards, at least reusing glass meant that waggons went back to depots full and as we all know reuse is better than recycling.

Answer 3

We have been fortnightly collection for some month's now so far it isn't to bad and I have been recycling like crazy I have also purchased a green bin for my garden waste which is working really well but the summer is coming and can only guess at how bad the smells are going to be from the normal bins and how many flies are going to be around :O(

Answer 4

Living in N.Ireland our bins have been being collected fortnightly for over a year now, i dont have a problem with it at all, if you recycle right then your bins dont need emptying every week.
As for the microchips they are only to help the council gather information as to how much they are recycling as each council have a percentage they have to reach otherwise they are fined.
The black plague has not yet hit N.Ireland but if it does i will let you no...... Good luck and keep recycling !!!

Answer 5

The fortnightly bin collections have been in force in the area I live in for over 9 months now . I am not in favour of it even though I do recycle .

We now have 2 bins one for garden waste,cardboard and another for household waste.

I recycle paper .cardboard ,glass ,foil ,cans but my household bin still gets full within about 10 days .

I can't recycle plastic as know where near me will take it . maybe if bins were emptied every ten days that would defiantly work for my family but two weeks is far too long.
Believe me the bins stink in summer to high heaven .

Answer 6

We as house holders only create 10% of waste that goes into land fills so it really should not be us that they should are controlling, it should be big companies. Why else do we pay council tax if our bins do not get emptied. The government is a joke at the moment it is about time they stopped trying to be seen as all good and started being all good. There Will be more fly tipping making the whole area a lot less pleasant.

Answer 7

We have fortnightly. Vegetable waste goes on compost heap, meat/fish is kept in freezer compartment fridge, and double wrapped for disposal, so no problem.

How you would manage in flats I do not know, and as for the microchip idea, I can see loads of problems with them. I can see lazy people fly tipping. I don't think taking labels off jam jars is necessary, but you could cut down bacteria by washing out jars and tins before disposing

Also, not everyone would store meat food scraps encouraging rats. You would have to strap bin shut, I think.

Answer 8

No easy answer to this. Try buying less food so there isn't leftovers on your plate to through out. If you are not going to recycle then you should wash or should I say rinse out all tins and food containers before you put them in the bin. This is a problem that didn't exist in the 1950's because there wasn't all the ready meals that so many people buy now and please nobody quote working mothers because I have been one and I still work full time and have never used or indeed could afford ready meals for 3 children through to teenagers and a husband. In the end it is really up to us to sort the mess out.

Answer 9

I am not sure i see the problem with this. If your rubbish is contained in a black sack and securely tied and the lid on your bin is closed it should not be a problem. In the hot weather if you spray the bags with anti-bacterial cleaner that you use in the kitchen it keeps pests away. If you do not have enough room in one bin then buy another- i think councils provide them at reduced rates. We have a weekly collection but we only put ours out fortnightly because we recycle religiously- we accumulate one bag of rubbish a week. Of course if you have a family you will get more- but the answer lies with how well you handle the rubbish to start with.

Answer 10

We`ve been having fortnightly collections for ages in my area of Cambridgeshire. We have 3 sulo wheelie bins. Black for household waste, green for recycling and brown for garden waste. The black is collected one week and the green and brown the next. We`ve never had a problem with it, even in the summer.