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Are fortnightly bin collections enough?
Are fortnightly bin collections frequent enough?
Homes across Britain throw away just under a third of all the food they buy, a report is expected to reveal.
The waste food goes into landfill sites where it breaks down and causes greenhouse gases.
The government is keen to reduce the amount of food wasted in order to combat climate change but also as the country is running out of landfill sites to use as dumps.
The study was undertaken by the government's waste body, Wrap and comes as more local councils are considering switching to fornightly bin collections.
What should we do to limit the amount of food we waste? How often is your rubbish collected? Would fortnightly bin collections encourage you to recylcle more? Send us your views.
Homes across Britain throw away just under a third of all the food they buy, a report is expected to reveal.
The waste food goes into landfill sites where it breaks down and causes greenhouse gases.
The government is keen to reduce the amount of food wasted in order to combat climate change but also as the country is running out of landfill sites to use as dumps.
The study was undertaken by the government's waste body, Wrap and comes as more local councils are considering switching to fornightly bin collections.
What should we do to limit the amount of food we waste? How often is your rubbish collected? Would fortnightly bin collections encourage you to recylcle more? Send us your views.
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I think the system in Ireland is very good. The way it works is, every time you put out your rubbish bin you have to buy a five euro tag to put on it. If it doesn't have a tag it doesn't get collected. We also have a free recycling collection service. So in that case it makes so much more sense to recycle something rather than throw it in the bin.
It made a huge difference when I was living in a house with five other people. At first we were putting out the bin every week and it was overflowing. Then when they introduced the bin tag scheme everyone was super careful about recycling and even though we were all students (a group not known for being careful with housekeeping) we would all remind each other to put things in the recycling because we didn't want to have to fork out another 5 euros. As a result we ended up putting out our rubbish bin about once a month (that's really good going for six people) and the vast majority of our waste went into recycling.
The main reason I think this works is that it provides an incentive for people to recycle - if you do it you save money. It's funny because I'm quite concerned about recycling but since I moved to England I've been much more lazy about putting things in the recycling if it happens to be inconvenient, because I know I won't have to pay for it.
It made a huge difference when I was living in a house with five other people. At first we were putting out the bin every week and it was overflowing. Then when they introduced the bin tag scheme everyone was super careful about recycling and even though we were all students (a group not known for being careful with housekeeping) we would all remind each other to put things in the recycling because we didn't want to have to fork out another 5 euros. As a result we ended up putting out our rubbish bin about once a month (that's really good going for six people) and the vast majority of our waste went into recycling.
The main reason I think this works is that it provides an incentive for people to recycle - if you do it you save money. It's funny because I'm quite concerned about recycling but since I moved to England I've been much more lazy about putting things in the recycling if it happens to be inconvenient, because I know I won't have to pay for it.
Sounds like cost cutting to me. What a load of rubbish.
No way once a week is the way to go especially when 5 people live in one house means more rubbish
maggots and flys and smells in the summer of rooting crap argh
maggots and flys and smells in the summer of rooting crap argh
this system has been in Bristol for a while.
It would work well if the bins were good enough.
The brown bins for food goods are not air tight, even with the lockable handle feature. We had our bin locked with wrapped food in it and yet we still had maggots.
At the moment for recycling there is only one black box. Now at uni (portsmouth) you have a big bin for recycling and I manage to fill this in about a week. (plus two crates with glass which isn't collected) The recycling is only collected fortnightly in portsmouth.
With only a little black box it isn't possible to recycle everything. there isn't enough space for everything. And no way of keeping it dry. wet paper/cardboard is never picked up.
some major faults in bristol is the lack of items that can be recycled through the collections. plastics can't, yet these take up the most space in the bins and seem to be the most common packaging.
It could work but it needs to be done properly. With the majority (if not all) recyclable items being collected and food bins being well made with lids fitting correctly and heavy enough to stay airtight.
It would work well if the bins were good enough.
The brown bins for food goods are not air tight, even with the lockable handle feature. We had our bin locked with wrapped food in it and yet we still had maggots.
At the moment for recycling there is only one black box. Now at uni (portsmouth) you have a big bin for recycling and I manage to fill this in about a week. (plus two crates with glass which isn't collected) The recycling is only collected fortnightly in portsmouth.
With only a little black box it isn't possible to recycle everything. there isn't enough space for everything. And no way of keeping it dry. wet paper/cardboard is never picked up.
some major faults in bristol is the lack of items that can be recycled through the collections. plastics can't, yet these take up the most space in the bins and seem to be the most common packaging.
It could work but it needs to be done properly. With the majority (if not all) recyclable items being collected and food bins being well made with lids fitting correctly and heavy enough to stay airtight.
^to get around that problem put your bin bags in a shopping trolley. That allows air to circulate, and keeps the waste dry so that it doesn'trot as quickly. Also keep that shopping trolley in the shade if you can. We keep ours down the side of the house, just outside the kitchen door, and don't have that problem at all. Shopping trolleys are also great for burning garden waste in.
That Irish tagging system sounds great.
That Irish tagging system sounds great.
Luize
this system has been in Bristol for a while.
It would work well if the bins were good enough.
The brown bins for food goods are not air tight, even with the lockable handle feature. We had our bin locked with wrapped food in it and yet we still had maggots.
At the moment for recycling there is only one black box. Now at uni (portsmouth) you have a big bin for recycling and I manage to fill this in about a week. (plus two crates with glass which isn't collected) The recycling is only collected fortnightly in portsmouth.
With only a little black box it isn't possible to recycle everything. there isn't enough space for everything. And no way of keeping it dry. wet paper/cardboard is never picked up.
some major faults in bristol is the lack of items that can be recycled through the collections. plastics can't, yet these take up the most space in the bins and seem to be the most common packaging.
It could work but it needs to be done properly. With the majority (if not all) recyclable items being collected and food bins being well made with lids fitting correctly and heavy enough to stay airtight.
It would work well if the bins were good enough.
The brown bins for food goods are not air tight, even with the lockable handle feature. We had our bin locked with wrapped food in it and yet we still had maggots.
At the moment for recycling there is only one black box. Now at uni (portsmouth) you have a big bin for recycling and I manage to fill this in about a week. (plus two crates with glass which isn't collected) The recycling is only collected fortnightly in portsmouth.
With only a little black box it isn't possible to recycle everything. there isn't enough space for everything. And no way of keeping it dry. wet paper/cardboard is never picked up.
some major faults in bristol is the lack of items that can be recycled through the collections. plastics can't, yet these take up the most space in the bins and seem to be the most common packaging.
It could work but it needs to be done properly. With the majority (if not all) recyclable items being collected and food bins being well made with lids fitting correctly and heavy enough to stay airtight.
Portsmouth's system sucks generally, trust me I know people who work in the waste management business(bin men) They think it sucks too. Where I live a bit outside of Portsmouth, we have a enormous wheelie bin for rubbish and a enormous wheelie bin for recycling, which it's just about possible to fill up in a fortnight if you try really hard or it's Christmas. And the garden waste thing is really handy. They'll take away Christmas trees and grass cuttings and all. I'm lucky enough to live 50 yards from a glass recycling point too, so all the beer bottles, wine bottles, whiskey bottles etc go in there.
The maggot problem is a problem, have to keep the bin at the bottom of the garden, I wonder if tipping bleach in your bin occasionally would kill the maggots? Or if there's any way of making it less smelly?
A problem arises in coastal areas with a large "yob" element who take delight in overturning rubbish bins or ripping refuse sacks, allowing the seagull population to have a field day - and creating a health hazard at the same time.
Where are people wo live in "high-rise" blocks supposed to store waste for a fortnight?
Where are people wo live in "high-rise" blocks supposed to store waste for a fortnight?
I'm suprised the Government didn't keep a lid on this news. Sounds like a wheelie bad idea.
All my rubbish is chucked in a big skip outside my block of flats. Collection times have no impact on me. Given that an ever increasing number of people are living in a similar style to me I question the deterent effect reducing bin collections would have. Binmen are already overpaid, let them work for it.
Carl
The infrastructure for which ideas?
The tagging system would be have some difficulties. How would you know where untagged bags come from in places like high-rises? Wouldn't people who didn't want to pay just dump their bags elsewhere?
The tagging system would be have some difficulties. How would you know where untagged bags come from in places like high-rises? Wouldn't people who didn't want to pay just dump their bags elsewhere?
That is a problem actually - people go skimming on bin night which means taking out the rubbish to tagged bins. Still it's not a huge problem. I'm not sure what the system is over here, but in Ireland if rubbish isn't in a wheelie bin it won't be collected, so generally in apartment blocks there's a basement area where everyone has their own bin. One thing that isn't collected is organic waste, it's up to individual households to compost this themselves, and anyway as it's biodegradable it doesn't count as recyclable rubbish.
Without wishing to sound as if I have exceptionally low hygiene standards, could someone tell me what's wrong with having the odd maggot in your wheelie bin occasionally? It's not as if you have to come into terribly close or prolonged contact with it. Don't be squeamish people: back in the good old days people didn't even have bin liners -- food waste would go directly into an old-fashioned metal dustbin, and from what my mum tells me they were full of lower forms of animal life, but no one cared as people were a bit tougher in those days.
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