Bristol may become first English council to collect black bins every four weeks

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1. what the hell Bristol is about to be fly tipped to hell

2. I could just about make do with 2-weekly collections, but 4-weekly is just untenable. Spoken as someone takes my recycling responsibilities seriously.

3. So they are going to reduce council tax right? because charging the same/more for less would be morally wrong, right?

4. That might make sense in freezing winter and everyone is super conservative with their rubbish otherwise its a recipe for rot and mess.

5. This sounds like cost-cutting being spun as an environmental measure

6. Id just fly tip. Goes against every single moral I have. But id do it to prove a point.

7. Unless they increase the regularity of the recycling collections, and also increase the kinds of items actually recycled (hard plastics, tetra packs etc), this is nonsense.

8. >“We firmly believe that by collecting black bin waste once every three or four weeks instead of two will increase the amount of waste our city recycles”

   A classic – *The beatings will continue until morale improves.*

9. Why don’t we invest in larger under-road bins like in Europe, and get rid of wheely bins for the majority, that would significantly reduce the smell and hygiene issues of 4 week bins, and would clear narrow streets of all the clutter they have now.

10. Parts of Bristol are filthy as it is, they shouldn’t do this

11. They wont

    They have done this in a few places already, they make a big song and dance about going from 2 weeks to 4 weeks

    Then everyone complains

    They back down and say “OK 3 weeks”

    Everyone says “Phew only 3 weekly”

    Also they put the council tax up

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13. FUCK. THAT, SHIT…… I’ve heard that my local council is looking into this too ! we are being taken for a ride, more council tax = less service….. you couldnt make this shit up.

    The local tips are going to get hammered, and people who cant get to a tip are going to throw rubbish wherever they can.

14. How does this work out with the new regulations on collecting food waste? Residents will have to keep all food waste for four weeks rotting the streets out? Great idea in the summer when it cooks itself, and in the winter when the foxes have a midnight buffet… it’s going to make the streets a haven for vermin.

15. Anyone with babies is absolutely fucked, then. Prepare to see dirty nappies being fly-tipped all over the city.

16. How is it possible other countries can collect rubbish nearly every day but now it’s once a month in Bristol…?

17. Can we just move to a communal bin per block already?

    The binmen then have a lot less bins to collect and bin day doesn’t mean bin/rubbish everywhere, further saving costs on having to clean the mess the seagulls make.

    There’s no reason each house needs individual bins.

    I’ve been to other countries where they have this system and the binmen come every single day to collect it…

18. Hmmm.

    I have fortnightly collections and could probably cope with this. In fact, I often miss a black bin collection because I’m lazy and it causes no problems in the winter. In the summer is a different story because of the heat.

    But I live alone. In two weeks I half fill a recycling bin and less than half fill a black bin.

    Any family home, especially if they have babies (huge amounts of baby food waste, nappies etc.) is going to produce way too much waste for this, even with multiple bins. Student houses with loads of pizza boxes etc. are also going to be terrible.

    This is a recipe for rats. Lots and lots of rats. Such a bad idea.

19. This reminds me of “No Mow May”, which my council repeated this past year. Cutting essential services thinly disguised as an environmental initiative, and the lanyard cretins at the council think they’re fooling people.

    Verges around high-speed junctions were incredibly dangerous due to the long grass blocking visibility (funnily enough, No Mow May stretched into July before my dad and a local farmer trimmed the verges around our village).

20. Is there no concern for the smell & potential for rodent infestations?! I’m glad I bailed out of the UK when I did, this is shameful of the government and local councils. At this rate, when my working life is finished, there will be more reasons to not return 😢

21. I am a binman, not in Bristol but still, this is such a bad idea. The amount of houses on a route who go over their 3 bag limit every 2 weeks is quite a significant amount. As others have said this will just increase fly-tipping. The solution isn’t this, it’s forcing companies to make all packaging recyclable.

22. I love how services in this country keep getting worse and worse while also getting more expensive…

    They wonder why fly tipping is on the up.

23. This will be a public hygiene issue in summer if black bins are full after 2 weeks then after 4 each household will have a bin sized pile next to each bin. I cant understand how this will work without first reducing household waste by 50% which isn’t going to happen just because they don’t collect the bins as often.

24. Ever since my council decided to do this with the communal bins at my flat here in Wales, we have constantly overloaded bins being destroyed and ragged about by seagulls and there’s almost a constant sea of litter everywhere around the street from the few blocks here.

    It’s fucking stupid and they never reduced any bills as a result of it. We pay the same, probably more since with increases, for less and now my home is a shit tip. Thanks for that NWHA and Conwy Council, you cunts.

25. Are we competing with NYC to see who can grow the biggest rats?

26. Why is it that nothing works in the UK? Too expensive to live here, most expensive utilities and council tax in Europe … Low stagnant wages and a rubbish job market full of dodgy employers.. Things were much better when I was a nipper I actually thought there was a future I now think should I stay and starve or leave for good.. So sad to see the current status quo this is not the same country I remember growing up…

27. We thought we were really clever voting in the Greens.

    I Hooe we still feel good in 3.5 years

28. I don’t think 2 weeks is enough for collection. 4 weeks is just ridiculous. We’re entitled to 2 black bins and they’re both full before the fortnight is up. The one recycling bin gets full the most quickly, so it means anything else has to go in somebody else’s or general household.

    For anyone with kids or pets, this is just a sanitation risk. You can’t store dirty nappies and pet bedding/litter in the house. If your bin is full, you have no choice but to throw black bags out with it.

29. Next month’s headline: Bristol plagued by rats, councilstruggling to explain why.

30. Issue with the UK is nothing is preventative. Making it so people have to hold onto their bins longer means higher chances of illness, vermin etc. These things cost more money than having more regular bin collections. But because we don’t have the up front money (or refuse to allocate money for it) to pay for things we constantly end up chasing our tails.

31. What is Black Bin? Is it general waste or re-cycling?

32. If they leave the bins there long enough, the trash will eventually become sentient and clear itself up…

33. That’s just not right. Imagine the smell on a hot summer day, with 4 weeks worth of rotting waste next to every house on a street.

34. And watch the rats starts infesting Bristol even quicker!
    Anyone remember when the binmen went on strike in Birmingham? The streets will look like that monthly 🤦

35. It’s fortnightly at present. Council moots four weekly then nobody is too pissed when they change it to three weekly. Classic manipulation.

36. Hope they like fly-tipping, because this is how you get fly-tipping.

37. Why can’t they collect recycling less frequently instead? At least it’s not going to stink for a month.

38. Not in Bristol but we recycle everything we can and still the black bag bin is full on a 2 weekly cycle.

    I would respect the local council if they said “there’s no money/we spent it all so tough shit” than trying to spin it being about the environment.

39. Just a reminder that the original max two week collection was at least partially based on the 2 week maggot life cycle. Enjoy!

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