Our green bins have been stopped and the collection of paper has been reduced to monthly. However, as we also put food waste in the green bin and many of us already had a mix of food and garden waste in our bins when they suddenly ceased collection without warning, the council are arranging a one off final collection to remove the last food waste. I am pleased about this as I tried to retrieve my food bags from my bin but I'd put too much garden cuttings in to find it all - was over enthusiastic initially in the garden so my bin was stuffed full!
As all tips and recycling facilities in car parks and at supermarkets are closed, we have no choice but to store our rubbish at home. But there has been an increase in fly tipping! I had to smile at a post on our community FB site. Someone has chucked six big tyres at a local playground and immediately several people said they wanted to pick them up to grow potatoes in! So within hours, the tyres disappeared!