Cheshire East Council Vote For 3 Week Bin Collections

Our food waste is collected weekly, the other bins (paper/card, recycling and landfill) every two weeks.

As for maggots in bins, for the life of me I can’t understand why anyone doesn’t keep the sort of thing that’s going to attract bluebottles (any scraps of meat or fish) wrapped in the freezer until the night before the bin men come. (And no, I don’t have a big freezer, just a small under the fridge job.)

Not to mention people who don’t wash items in the glass/tins bin, and then complain that it smells/and/or attracts flies. Like a former colleague of mine, who despite complaining about the smell, refused to wash anything, and said, ‘Where does it say we have to?’

We could manage with 3 weekly collections but looking around, I think families with 2/3 kids won’t, their bins are always full to the brim- they would possibly need the larger bins to cope.

Who generates enough food waste to justify a special bin for recycling it? All our plates are empty after each meal and I rely even through an out of date part loaf away. Collecting waste food in a bin for collection every 2 or 3 weeks must create a bit of a stink!

It’s a small bin orly. You use it for vegetable peelings, eggshells etc., as well as other food waste, so it is worth it being collected weekly. It’s got an airtight seal, and the food itself doesn’t go straight into the bin, there’s a compostable bag for it, it doesn’t smell. I find it much better than putting my food waste in the normal black bin, which stays clean.

We'd be fine with 3 weekly general waste collections, as others have said most of ours is recyclable or goes on the compost. But wouldn't like to leave it 3 weeks just in a black bag, as is the case for some posters.
I am going to get our food waste bin out & use it now, we don't have much but eggshells & avacado & mango stones won't compost down well & we sometimes thow bread away so there would be a bit most weeks.

We recycle as much as we can. Paper, plastic and metal are collected once every three weeks. There’s no smell because we make sure it’s all clean. Food and garden waste is collected weekly. Only the paper bin and the garden bin are ever full.
We have a Joseph Joseph kitchen recycling bin, which I can honestly say has been worth every penny.

growstuff

It depends how many bins they have. We have three: recyclable, non-recyclable and food waste. The first two are only collected every two weeks and I don't think increasing that to three weeks would cause a problem.

The food waste is collected every week and I would object if that were cut, especially in summer, when it can get a bit smelly. Nevertheless, the food waste caddies have lockable lids, so vermin can't get in.

Have you looked at East Cheshire's accounts? Maybe you'd be happy for an increase in your council tax to maintain services.

How are Lancs County Council's accounts connected to East Cheshire? I think you may be a bit mixed up in your geography!

I think it’s called saving money at the expense of your health. Probably hiring more council workers to fiddle around in accounts.

We live in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
As of Friday, our Council tip, whatever you want to call it, is no longer taking furniture, to cut back on staff and save money, no doubt. This weekend a manky old sofa and chair got dumped on the coast road, meaning that council men will now have to come out in a van to remove it. Seems daft to me.
I'm 100% for recycling and reducing waste, but it's got to be made easy for people to do so.

Nanna8 there is no problem with our bins and health issues it’s about people not using the bins correctly Putting wrong things in, it’s really not rocket science and not being on the ball about what can be recycled
At the moment we have a two weekly collection but we could easily manage a three weekly one and if you bag any food waste (I get none really because I compost most and empty my plate like a good girl) but any I do get is bagged and tightly tied and in my black bin which is only ever half full
My garden waste bin is the one usually overflowing but you just have to compress it down I m the only one in my block as most peoples gardens are paved over or garages etc

We get a very good service

Good. I suppose I was thinking of life here where it can get very,very hot and the bins smell after a couple of days . Ours are fortnightly for recycled things but weekly for the everyday waste. You cop a fine if you put the wrong stuff in - we’re like that here. Also, they won’t pick up the ‘wrong’ things, they will leave your bin unemptied. Fair enough, I agree with that policy.

Re my above sofa post, apparently its a government directive. The Environment Agency requires waste upholstered domestic seating to now be segregated and transported separately from other wastes. So the answer is to stop taking it at our tip? 🙈

We could manage with three weekly, collections as would others. The neighbours with children of varying ages sometimes have overflowing bins, both general and recycling. Our bedridden neighbour, as mentioned by someone else would not cope with 3-weekly collections.

We still have weekly collections, but apparently will be moving to fortnightly.

I think much depends on the size of your household. We currently have 6 adults and 4 dogs living in our home, we try hard not to but we do generate quite a lot of recycling, rubbish and food waste, though try hard not to.

We have two large wheelie bins situated outside our back door (we still have bags here no wheelie bins, though this may change, though no idea how this will work as many many Georgian and Victorian terraces, we live in a mid terrace, with miniscule front gardens and very limited access from the front to the back gardens other than through the house)

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Re my above sofa post, apparently its a government directive. The Environment Agency requires waste upholstered domestic seating to now be segregated and transported separately from other wastes. So the answer is to stop taking it at our tip? 🙈

Here you have to pay for the council to collect from your home.

I could easily cope with a three weekly black bin and recyclable waste collection but many houses round here have nowhere to keep bins and have to use (purple) sacks, so they wouldn't be able to manage three weekly collections. Our garden waste bin has to be paid for and in summer the 2 weekly collection is fine for our small garden but anything bigger would struggle. Our area does not have a cooked food waste collection and we compost our veggie waste. Our young next door neighbours recycle nothing and have a bulging black bin every two weeks.

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GrannySomerset

Not an issue for me but when DH was fully incontinent I did have to beg space in neighbours’ bins as two weeks worth was more than one bin could take - quite apart from any other non-recyclable rubbish.

Our council provides an additional ‘purple bag’ service for free in those circumstances, which is a good compromise I think. It would be worth people checking to see if their councils offer something similar.

Ours supplies a second bin.

We have a two weekly collection for domestic waste, every month paper cardboard, and plastics metal glass.
Two weekly garden waste until Nov. The only problem I've seen, is people not squashing , don't seem to be able to realise they would get more in their bins if they did.

PoliticsNerd

Ours supplies a second bin.
So does ours @£30 per bin + delivery.

Paid for from Attendance Allowance hopefully Mollygo.

PoliticsNerd

Paid for from Attendance Allowance hopefully Mollygo.

What’s one of those?

Attendance Allowance is a NONE means-tested insurance (NI) benefit. It helps with extra costs if you have a disability or health condition severe enough that you need someone or something (aids) to help you live as independently as possible, Mollygo.