I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful for
any answers to my question.

My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
weeks is now the "norm" apparently!  As we still use black bin bags, not
wheelie bins, most local residents are horrified by the problems of storing
several bags of rotting waste and the prospect of the smell etc, esp as
extra bags stored outside the usual bin over a 2 week period will no doubt
be attacked by dogs, cats, rats etc etc.

Please could anyone with a few spare moments let me know if your area has
weekly or fortnightly collections as I feel that our local council is wrong
in its assumption that fortnightly collections are now "the norm" and they
are just trying to bamboozle the local public with unfounded claims.  They
claim that because some households have opted to pay 10 for a green garden
waste bin (collected fortnightly) and town households have a weekly old
newspaper collection that a weekly rubbish collection is no longer
necessary.

Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -

1) name of authority/County;

2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)

3) weekly or fortnightly collections

TIA

Lynda (Smurf)

Which party runs your council?

If Tory, then maybe this is how they'll acheive their 'cuts' to reduce your 
tax bill (I think they're trying that scam where I live)!  Vote Lib Dem I 
say!

"Lynda North"  wrote in message 
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> I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful 
> for
> any answers to my question.
>
> My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
> replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
> weeks is now the "norm" apparently!  As we still use black bin bags, not
> wheelie bins, most local residents are horrified by the problems of 
> storing
> several bags of rotting waste and the prospect of the smell etc, esp as
> extra bags stored outside the usual bin over a 2 week period will no doubt
> be attacked by dogs, cats, rats etc etc.
>
> Please could anyone with a few spare moments let me know if your area has
> weekly or fortnightly collections as I feel that our local council is 
> wrong
> in its assumption that fortnightly collections are now "the norm" and they
> are just trying to bamboozle the local public with unfounded claims.  They
> claim that because some households have opted to pay 10 for a green 
> garden
> waste bin (collected fortnightly) and town households have a weekly old
> newspaper collection that a weekly rubbish collection is no longer
> necessary.
>
> Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -
>
> 1) name of authority/County;   Nottinghamshire
>
> 2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system) wheelie bins
>
> 3) weekly or fortnightly collections  one week blue bin for recycling, 
> next week green bin for other household waste, in fortnightly cycle. 
> Generally this works well, but last summer i did get maggots during a hot 
> period and had to pour a bottle of bleach in it.
>
> TIA
>
> Lynda (Smurf)

"Lynda North"  wrote in message 
news:oWSce.19286$vU4.11334@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...

> I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful 
> for
> any answers to my question.
>
> My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
> replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
> weeks is now the "norm" apparently!  As we still use black bin bags, not
> wheelie bins, most local residents are horrified by the problems of 
> storing
> several bags of rotting waste and the prospect of the smell etc, esp as
> extra bags stored outside the usual bin over a 2 week period will no doubt
> be attacked by dogs, cats, rats etc etc.
>
> Please could anyone with a few spare moments let me know if your area has
> weekly or fortnightly collections as I feel that our local council is 
> wrong
> in its assumption that fortnightly collections are now "the norm" and they
> are just trying to bamboozle the local public with unfounded claims.  They
> claim that because some households have opted to pay 10 for a green 
> garden
> waste bin (collected fortnightly) and town households have a weekly old
> newspaper collection that a weekly rubbish collection is no longer
> necessary.
>
> Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -
>
> 1) name of authority/County;
Denbighshire
>
> 2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)
Black Bags
>
> 3) weekly or fortnightly collections

Weekly
Although newspapers are collected fortnightly (private firm)
and some parts of the county do have 'blue box' recycling scheme, sadly not 
in my part of town yet.
Anthony

>
> TIA
>
> Lynda (Smurf)
>
>
>
> 

In message <oWSce.19286$vU4.11334@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, Lynda North 
 writes

>I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful for
>any answers to my question.
>
>My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
>replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
>weeks is now the "norm" apparently!


It was *twice a week* when I lived in a flat in Edinburgh

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Home to the first online guide to Scotland, founded 1994.
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I am with  Aberdeen Council and it is still weekly at the moment but they 
are piloting fortnightly in some areas and it looks like this will go ahead. 
The recycling is collected every 2 weeks as is the garden waste. My bin is 
full every week.

Karen

I feel very strongly about this and don't expect my views to be popular, but 
what the heck. Where I live we have fortnightly collections and it is more 
than enough. We have recycling collecions on the alternative week. We have a 
brown bin for our garden waste, which is often the bin that is full each 
fortnight with grass clippings etc, especially during the summer. We have a 
blue box for glasses, tins, cans, and plastic bottles which we wash and then 
crush (if appropriate) before we put them in there. Its also these bins 
which are full. I would like to see the council providing a bigger box to 
encourage more recycling. We also have newspaper bags to put our recycled 
paper in (I keep mine uner the breakfast bar), which is also collected on 
the alternative week, and the council collct clothes etc if you put them in 
a bag on the alternartive week. I take caredboard to my local Asda cardboard 
bank, so I only need a bin collection once a fortnight.

I think people need to make more of an effort to recycle. I take my bottles 
to the bottle bank at te local shop if my blue bin is filling up.

The planet is only on loan from our children. So if you are recycling you 
should manage with the fortnightly collection, if you aren't then you need 
to do more!!!! And no I'm not a stay at home mum, I'm a single mum who works 
full-time so if I can find te time anyone can. I also think more local 
authorities need to run schemes like ours. We were the pilot area for Derby 
and now other areas are coming on board and I think Derby is recycling 
something like 70% of it's rubbish.

Well you did ask!

Chris

We have 2 wheelie bins (green for garden waste and black for normal)
and they are emptied on alternate weeks. Our black bin is full every
week but now they won't take any extra bags of rubbish you leave
out...only whats in the wheelie bin.
We also have a blue box for paper and orange for tins. These are
emptied every week.

Mark B

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> I am with  Aberdeen Council and it is still weekly at the moment but they 
> are piloting fortnightly in some areas and it looks like this will go ahead. 
> The recycling is collected every 2 weeks as is the garden waste. My bin is 
> full every week.


As are most people's.  Just because other councils provide inadequate 
service is no excuse for your own to do the same, just to follow the herd.  
I suspect they are being somewhat disingenuous, anyway.  It is true that 
at least one council only collects refuse fortnightly, but that's because 
they collect recyclable materials in the intervening weeks.  I can't 
remember which one specifically, although I have an inkling it's Hastings 
or somewhere in that neck of the woods.
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On Sun, 01 May 2005 09:10:16 GMT, "^A^ngel"
<angel316(MYWINGS)@ntlworld.com> wrote:


>I feel very strongly about this and don't expect my views to be popular, but 
>what the heck. Where I live we have fortnightly collections and it is more 
>than enough. 


Agreed- we have weekly collections of both recyclables and normal
rubbish, and if you use the recycling bin sensibly and compost
vegetable waste it's really hardly worth putting the normal bin out -
we seldom have enough rubbish to cover the bottom of the bin. 

Provided the council is fulfilling its obligation to provide proper
recycling facilities, the weekly collection should be completely
unnecessary. 

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>but the the councils collect in knacked lorries that put out tons of nasties
>


So the less often they have to pass by my house the happier I am about
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i live in Northants and sounds like exactly the same as Angel and works
well. We have an extra large grey wheelie bin for families larger than 5,
which is a help

pauline

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>
> I feel very strongly about this and don't expect my views to be popular,


Are they ever Chris :-)



> The planet is only on loan from our children.


Interesting theory..but though I "love my kids to bits" - (Preferably very
small bits that can be swept under the carpet if necessary) I refuse to
agree that everything I own and have worked my b*lls off to accumulate for
nearly 50 years is only held on a sort of leasehold basis from these
mini-mes...

Besides, they don't even pay me a decent rent for it!

-Cheers

-Ar^ch - Who in actuality tends to be very "Green" and would welcome the
opportunity to re-cycle his kids when they outlive their usefullness :-)

We have small 140 litre green bins for "normal" waste collected weekly, 
recycle boxes for paper, plastic and glass/tins collected weekly and a large 
270 litre brown bin for garden waste collected fortnightly.

This is Three Rivers Council in SW Herts. Despite the good recycling policy, 
the management of the "environment" department who run this service are 
rude, arrogant, disorganised and unprofessional.

Their latest trick in providing an even shoddier service, i.e. in not 
collecting your waste, is to state that their operatives will not take the 
bins down steps due to a safety concern. However, they expect the residents 
to do this. So no duty of care to the residents then.

The principle of what they offer is good. Their execution of it is 
appalling.


"Lynda North"  wrote in message 
news:oWSce.19286$vU4.11334@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful for
any answers to my question.

My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
weeks is now the "norm" apparently!  As we still use black bin bags, not
wheelie bins, most local residents are horrified by the problems of storing
several bags of rotting waste and the prospect of the smell etc, esp as
extra bags stored outside the usual bin over a 2 week period will no doubt
be attacked by dogs, cats, rats etc etc.

Please could anyone with a few spare moments let me know if your area has
weekly or fortnightly collections as I feel that our local council is wrong
in its assumption that fortnightly collections are now "the norm" and they
are just trying to bamboozle the local public with unfounded claims.  They
claim that because some households have opted to pay 10 for a green garden
waste bin (collected fortnightly) and town households have a weekly old
newspaper collection that a weekly rubbish collection is no longer
necessary.

Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -

1) name of authority/County;

2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)

3) weekly or fortnightly collections

TIA

Lynda (Smurf)

"Lynda North"  wrote in message 
news:oWSce.19286$vU4.11334@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...

>>
> Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -
>
> 1) name of authority/County; - Stroud, Gloucestershire
>
> 2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system) - black bags (but 
> only because we live really high up on a hill and the roads aren't big 
> enough to drive the bin collecting trucks up here - we get smaller flatbed 
> trucks to collect the bags)
>
> 3) weekly or fortnightly collections - weekly collections for bags / 
> fornightly for recycleables (plastic, glass, cans)

> 1) name of authority/County;


Pendle in Lancs.


> 2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)


Black bin bags of which we use two
Green wheely bin for garden waste
White Bag for paper/cardboard
Green/yellow box for can/glass


> 3) weekly or fortnightly collections


Household rubbish collect weekly
All others collected fortnightly.

We are a family of 5 we use two bags of rubbish a week and recycle what
we can.  If they came once a fortnight then there would be two bags out
infront of the house for animals to attack for a full week.  We were
provided with one bin to put the black bin bag in the other I provided
myself so that rubbish is not hanging around.  We are the largest
family in our street but there are many that put much more rubbish out
each week.  Can you imagine what our streets are going to look like with
rubbish all over as someone put their rubbish out on the wrong week and
it was attacked by animals!

Weekly collection of rubbish here - Bristol City council
"Lynda North"  wrote in message news:oWSce.19286$vU4.11334@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...

> I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful for
> any answers to my question.
> 
> My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
> replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
> weeks is now the "norm" apparently!  As we still use black bin bags, not
> wheelie bins, most local residents are horrified by the problems of storing
> several bags of rotting waste and the prospect of the smell etc, esp as
> extra bags stored outside the usual bin over a 2 week period will no doubt
> be attacked by dogs, cats, rats etc etc.
> 
> Please could anyone with a few spare moments let me know if your area has
> weekly or fortnightly collections as I feel that our local council is wrong
> in its assumption that fortnightly collections are now "the norm" and they
> are just trying to bamboozle the local public with unfounded claims.  They
> claim that because some households have opted to pay £10 for a green garden
> waste bin (collected fortnightly) and town households have a weekly old
> newspaper collection that a weekly rubbish collection is no longer
> necessary.
> 
> Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -
> 
> 1) name of authority/County;
> 
> 2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)
> 
> 3) weekly or fortnightly collections
> 
> TIA
> 
> Lynda (Smurf)
> 
> 
> 
> 

"^A^ngel" <angel316(MYWINGS)@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
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>

 I would like to see the council providing a bigger box to

> encourage more recycling.
 >
> I think people need to make more of an effort to recycle.


Which is fine if everyone has the room for all these bins and boxes!

Our council (North Lincs) are trying to bring in extra bins now for garden 
waste. We already have the normal bin and a blue box for papers. In the area 
that I live people don't have enough space to store even more of the flippin 
things.

As I'm sat now looking across the road, the houses there already have to 
have the normal bin stood permantely on the path because there is no where 
on the property to store it. Round the back is no good because they don't 
have access other than through the house itself.

If we end up with more bins/boxes etc the whole frontage of those houses is 
going to be obscured by bins, bins and more bins.

I recycle what I can - but until I purchase a property with a spare half 
acre to store all this gubbins I shall be against having a "multi-coloured" 
box and bin collection pushed on to me.

zo

Sorry forgot to say black wheely bins weekly.   Re ycling black box weekly
"denise&bryn"  wrote in message news:g94de.7949$qK3.1714@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
Weekly collection of rubbish here - Bristol City council
"Lynda North"  wrote in message news:oWSce.19286$vU4.11334@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...

> I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful for
> any answers to my question.
> 
> My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
> replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
> weeks is now the "norm" apparently!  As we still use black bin bags, not
> wheelie bins, most local residents are horrified by the problems of storing
> several bags of rotting waste and the prospect of the smell etc, esp as
> extra bags stored outside the usual bin over a 2 week period will no doubt
> be attacked by dogs, cats, rats etc etc.
> 
> Please could anyone with a few spare moments let me know if your area has
> weekly or fortnightly collections as I feel that our local council is wrong
> in its assumption that fortnightly collections are now "the norm" and they
> are just trying to bamboozle the local public with unfounded claims.  They
> claim that because some households have opted to pay £10 for a green garden
> waste bin (collected fortnightly) and town households have a weekly old
> newspaper collection that a weekly rubbish collection is no longer
> necessary.
> 
> Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -
> 
> 1) name of authority/County;
> 
> 2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)
> 
> 3) weekly or fortnightly collections
> 
> TIA
> 
> Lynda (Smurf)
> 
> 
> 
>

North West Leics

We have a black bin for household, collected every other week.  Then a brown bin for garden refuse only (not household veg peelings etc), red box for plastic/tins, blue bag for paper collected the every other week.

I collect glass myself and take it to the recycling points. 

I like the recycling but wish the household waste went every week in summer - even green composting etc you can end up with a very pongy bin after a fortnight and maggots. You end up double bagging everything and/or using bleach/spray which is probably just as bad for the enviroment.  

BizzyB

In Bournemouth we have a wheelybin and can put most things in it.

Also blue bag for paper and cans.

Both collected weekly.

I take glass and plastic bottles to the recycling site.

Mike


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North West Leics

We have a black bin for household, collected every other week.  Then a brown
bin for garden refuse only (not household veg peelings etc), red box for
plastic/tins, blue bag for paper collected the every other week.

I collect glass myself and take it to the recycling points.

I like the recycling but wish the household waste went every week in
summer - even green composting etc you can end up with a very pongy bin
after a fortnight and maggots. You end up double bagging everything and/or
using bleach/spray which is probably just as bad for the enviroment.

BizzyB

in this area it is thrisdays one collection a week, they also have the blue 
recycle boxes collected on fridays, they still charge 45 though to remove 
larger rubbish items such as old furniture and the like which is a disgrace 
especially for the elderly and people who are less unfortunate in society.
"Mike Terry"  wrote in message 
news:3dkp3jF6to9b5U1@individual.net...

> In Bournemouth we have a wheelybin and can put most things in it.
>
> Also blue bag for paper and cans.
>
> Both collected weekly.
>
> I take glass and plastic bottles to the recycling site.
>
> Mike
>
>
> "BizzyB"  wrote in message
> news:d53ae5$lme$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> North West Leics
>
> We have a black bin for household, collected every other week.  Then a 
> brown
> bin for garden refuse only (not household veg peelings etc), red box for
> plastic/tins, blue bag for paper collected the every other week.
>
> I collect glass myself and take it to the recycling points.
>
> I like the recycling but wish the household waste went every week in
> summer - even green composting etc you can end up with a very pongy bin
> after a fortnight and maggots. You end up double bagging everything and/or
> using bleach/spray which is probably just as bad for the enviroment.
>
> BizzyB
>
>
> 

"Zo" <if-you-can't-beat 'em@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
news:3dk4kbF6t0l27U1@individual.net...

>
> Which is fine if everyone has the room for all these bins and boxes!
>
> Our council (North Lincs) are trying to bring in extra bins now for garden 
> waste. We already have the normal bin and a blue box for papers. In the 
> area that I live people don't have enough space to store even more of the 
> flippin things.
>
> As I'm sat now looking across the road, the houses there already have to 
> have the normal bin stood permantely on the path because there is no where 
> on the property to store it. Round the back is no good because they don't 
> have access other than through the house itself.
>
> If we end up with more bins/boxes etc the whole frontage of those houses 
> is going to be obscured by bins, bins and more bins.
>
> I recycle what I can - but until I purchase a property with a spare half 
> acre to store all this gubbins I shall be against having a 
> "multi-coloured" box and bin collection pushed on to me.
>
> zo
>
>

Yeah point taken about the space. Alot of the older style terrace style 
housing doesnt have room for all this and to get my brown bin to the front 
when I mow the grass I either have to take it through the house ro get one 
of the kids or myself to drag it round the path and round the flats to the 
front. I take the later option myself, prefering to go round rather than 
drag the bin through the house. Its a monir incovenience really but I would 
have to take the clippings back through the house anyway to get them to the 
black bin or drag that round or put them in a compost bin in the back 
garden.

I have alrge back garden so the nins dont take up that much space in a 
corner of the garden. But guess I am one of the lucky ones. Store my other 
stuff in a cupboard in the house and the papers in the house under the 
breakfast bar. Sure they take up a bit of space in the house but at keast Im 
doing my bit. Our blue bins for glass plastic and tins could quite easily be 
stored in a cupboard, for example under the stairs, they dont have to be 
outside, and alot of my friends and neighbour dont keep them outside.

Chris

I guess the councils have to find a solution for peeps who love in this 
older style terracing woith no front garden becaue the streets will look a 
mess with bins all over them.

It's not just older properties that have this problem. My house is "only" 22 years old but there is no way from back garden to front garden except through the house and no opening from the back onto the road (Backs onto another property).
So I wouldn't want to keep a wheelie bin at the front of the house, or have to roll it through the lounge!
Besides, I only generate half a black bag in a week. 
I would hate to have food scraps rotting in a bag for two weeks though!
In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.

Mike

"^A^ngel" <angel316(MYWINGS)@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:zgbde.9305$_s1.6227@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...

> 
> "Zo" <if-you-can't-beat 'em@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
> news:3dk4kbF6t0l27U1@individual.net...
>>
>> Which is fine if everyone has the room for all these bins and boxes!
>>
>> Our council (North Lincs) are trying to bring in extra bins now for garden 
>> waste. We already have the normal bin and a blue box for papers. In the 
>> area that I live people don't have enough space to store even more of the 
>> flippin things.
>>
>> As I'm sat now looking across the road, the houses there already have to 
>> have the normal bin stood permantely on the path because there is no where 
>> on the property to store it. Round the back is no good because they don't 
>> have access other than through the house itself.
>>
>> If we end up with more bins/boxes etc the whole frontage of those houses 
>> is going to be obscured by bins, bins and more bins.
>>
>> I recycle what I can - but until I purchase a property with a spare half 
>> acre to store all this gubbins I shall be against having a 
>> "multi-coloured" box and bin collection pushed on to me.
>>
>> zo
>>
>>
> Yeah point taken about the space. Alot of the older style terrace style 
> housing doesnt have room for all this and to get my brown bin to the front 
> when I mow the grass I either have to take it through the house ro get one 
> of the kids or myself to drag it round the path and round the flats to the 
> front. I take the later option myself, prefering to go round rather than 
> drag the bin through the house. Its a monir incovenience really but I would 
> have to take the clippings back through the house anyway to get them to the 
> black bin or drag that round or put them in a compost bin in the back 
> garden.
> 
> I have alrge back garden so the nins dont take up that much space in a > corner of the garden. But guess I am one of the lucky ones. Store my other 
> stuff in a cupboard in the house and the papers in the house under the > breakfast bar. Sure they take up a bit of space in the house but at keast Im 
> doing my bit. Our blue bins for glass plastic and tins could quite easily be 
> stored in a cupboard, for example under the stairs, they dont have to be 
> outside, and alot of my friends and neighbour dont keep them outside.
> 
> Chris
> 
> I guess the councils have to find a solution for peeps who love in this 
> older style terracing woith no front garden becaue the streets will look a 
> mess with bins all over them. 
> 
>

In article <jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net>,
<(@l@)>Lightningslim  writes

>In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.


Whereabouts in Cardiff are you Mike?  I lived in various spots over a
13yr period.  Last one was in Roath.
-- 
Cerian

I'm in Radyr Cheyne.

Mike

"Cerian"  wrote in message news:W4芠聉딝࡜@iconia.demon.co.uk...

> In article <jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net>,
> <(@l@)>Lightningslim  writes
>>In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.
> 
> Whereabouts in Cardiff are you Mike?  I lived in various spots over a
> 13yr period.  Last one was in Roath.
> -- 
> Cerian

Cerian  wrote in news:W4
+gqCASbUdCFw6B@iconia.demon.co.uk:


> In article <jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net>,
> <(@l@)>Lightningslim  writes
>>In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.
> 
> Whereabouts in Cardiff are you Mike?  I lived in various spots over a
> 13yr period.  Last one was in Roath.


Whitchurch, here.

sharon

"<\(@l@\)>Lightningslim"  wrote in
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> I'm in Radyr Cheyne.


Heh, you mean Danescourt? ;)

My mum lives about two hundred yards down the road from you, small world 
eh?

sharon

No, I'm the other side of the top roundabout. 

Mike

"Sharon"  wrote in message news:Xns9649E58F19077spamebonydragoncouk@130.133.1.4...

> "<\(@l@\)>Lightningslim"  wrote in
> news:cWbde.2800$%K6.1752@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net: 
> 
>> I'm in Radyr Cheyne.
> 
> Heh, you mean Danescourt? ;)
> 
> My mum lives about two hundred yards down the road from you, small world 
> eh?
> 
> sharon
>

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:39:32 GMT, "Lynda North" 
wrote:


>1) name of authority/County;


New Forest


>2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)


Pink bags and Clear recycling bags


>3) weekly or fortnightly collections


Weekly for both.

I would be very unhappy if they changed to fortnightly for the pink
bags... I mean who wants to be surrounded by rotting pooey nappies for
two weeks...?  Being that they're plastic sacks, we can't exactly put
them outside for two weeks... the cats would tear them into strips...

The recycling stuff is pretty clean and there would be no harm in that
being collected fortnightly.

--

We are lucky in the Bury St Edmunds area of Suffolk.. Black wheelie bin (for
anything) emptied once a fortnight. Blue wheelie bin (recyclables) and brown
wheelie bin (garden stuff) are emptied the other week. Newmarket area have a
box for newspapers - we don't but by our village hall we have newspaper and
bottle bank, which we support as funding goes towards the village hall. Our
dustmen are courteous and cheery and friendly - but then that is us in
Suffolk - a nice lot. Our Council has won awards for waste disposal - and in
the summer we buy bags of compost from the local tip (really cheap) which
have been processed from our brown wheelie bins.
There's only two of us at home and the cat dog and chickens - but somehow we
make so much rubbish that we have to pop bags into our neighbours half empty
bins on bin day.....I really do sympathise with anyone who has to use bin
bags - they are really unhygienic. Some areas have bin washers following the
bin men and for a 1 they wash out the wheelie bins - I wouldn't mind that
service.
Good luck with your cause - surely your local mp should be helpful this
week!!!
Inger

On Sun, 1 May 2005 23:15:37 +0000 (UTC), "Inger Morris"
 wrote:


>.I really do sympathise with anyone who has to use bin
>bags - they are really unhygienic. Some areas have bin washers following the
>bin men and for a 1 they wash out the wheelie bins


Yes, we have that service - I suppose that's why i'd be happy with a
fortnightly service: even in summer when it is (allegedly) hot, the
bin never gets smelly. I'm surprised at the number of councils that
have bags instead of bins. Not only do they clutter the
house/garden/shed up and get smelly, but they also attract rats, foxes
and domestic pets who tear them open when they are left out for the
binmen and spread the rubbish all over the place. And it isn't the
binmens' job to clear it up, so it just gets left. 

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"<\(@l@\)>Lightningslim"  wrote in
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> No, I'm the other side of the top roundabout. 


Yeah I know where you are. I guess I'm just a puratist but to me Radyr 
Cheine is the big old house not the area. Its either Fairwater or 
Danescourt; at least it always was when I was a child growing up in the 
eighties and early nineties on Waterhall Road.

Hold on, I take it you didnt mean the house, right?

sharon

On 2 May 2005 08:15:47 GMT, Sharon  wrote:


>"<\(@l@\)>Lightningslim"  wrote in
>news:p2cde.2808$%K6.2378@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net: 
>
>> No, I'm the other side of the top roundabout. 
>
>Yeah I know where you are. I guess I'm just a puratist but to me Radyr 
>Cheine is the big old house not the area. Its either Fairwater or 
>Danescourt; at least it always was when I was a child growing up in the 
>eighties and early nineties on Waterhall Road.
>
>Hold on, I take it you didnt mean the house, right?
>
>sharon


I was Born in Cardiff (St Davids...long since gone) and lived in
grangetown, then Penarth, then Dinas Powys then back to Grangetown. 
My Mum now lives in Culverhouse Cross and me in North Scotland :-)

Mark B

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'Fraid not, I wish! 
As you almost rightly spellled, ;o)  the "Big" house is "Radyr Chain." 
The developers of the houses on the other side of the road spelled it "Radyr Cheyne," (God knows why - its not Welsh or anything!) and that's where I live, right on top of Waterhall Road Hill. (Though I'm actually on the side that looks out to the countryside)
Incidentally, you may remember that there is another lovely big secluded house on "this" side of Waterhall Road too? A developer has bought it and wants to tear it down an build a massive block of flats!
We've been fighting the proposals for years :o)
Sadly it looks like the developer will keep grinding the council down until he gets his way  :o(

Mike

"Sharon"  wrote in message news:Xns964A5E3E93E61spamebonydragoncouk@130.133.1.4...

> "<\(@l@\)>Lightningslim"  wrote in
> news:p2cde.2808$%K6.2378@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net: 
> 
>> No, I'm the other side of the top roundabout. 
> 
> Yeah I know where you are. I guess I'm just a puratist but to me Radyr > Cheine is the big old house not the area. Its either Fairwater or 
> Danescourt; at least it always was when I was a child growing up in the 
> eighties and early nineties on Waterhall Road.
> 
> Hold on, I take it you didnt mean the house, right?
> 
> sharon

"<\(@l@\)>Lightningslim"  wrote in
news:%Emde.10051$_s1.10017@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net: 


> 'Fraid not, I wish! 
> As you almost rightly spellled, ;o)  the "Big" house is "Radyr Chain."
> The developers of the houses on the other side of the road spelled it
> "Radyr Cheyne," (God knows why - its not Welsh or anything!) and
> that's where I live, right on top of Waterhall Road Hill. (Though I'm
> actually on the side that looks out to the countryside) Incidentally,
> you may remember that there is another lovely big secluded house on
> "this" side of Waterhall Road too? A developer has bought it and wants
> to tear it down an build a massive block of flats! We've been fighting
> the proposals for years :o) Sadly it looks like the developer will
> keep grinding the council down until he gets his way  :o( 


Do you mean the one thats high up on the opposite corner? I once sold a 
video player to the then owner if you do... <g> dottery old bugger he 
was too, kept ringing me telling me the remote didnt work *every* time 
he needed new batteries (yes we're talking over a period of two or three 
YEARS here)
I had no idea they wanted to develop it, and frankly think it would 
destroy the whole semi rural feel of the area. Bah developers...

sharon

Yup, that's the one. They want to put a cylindrical 4 storey block there with two openings onto the road/roundabout - Taking down all the trees (For those who don't know it there  are ten or more mature trees in the current garden) and there would be twenty or so apartments so it would make the morning traffic even worse! and god knows how the parking situation would be affected!

Mike

"Sharon"  wrote in message news:Xns964A757F2ED43spamebonydragoncouk@130.133.1.4...

> "<\(@l@\)>Lightningslim"  wrote in
> news:%Emde.10051$_s1.10017@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net: 
> 
>> 'Fraid not, I wish! 
>> As you almost rightly spellled, ;o)  the "Big" house is "Radyr Chain."
>> The developers of the houses on the other side of the road spelled it
>> "Radyr Cheyne," (God knows why - its not Welsh or anything!) and
>> that's where I live, right on top of Waterhall Road Hill. (Though I'm
>> actually on the side that looks out to the countryside) Incidentally,
>> you may remember that there is another lovely big secluded house on
>> "this" side of Waterhall Road too? A developer has bought it and wants
>> to tear it down an build a massive block of flats! We've been fighting
>> the proposals for years :o) Sadly it looks like the developer will
>> keep grinding the council down until he gets his way  :o( 
> 
> Do you mean the one thats high up on the opposite corner? I once sold a 
> video player to the then owner if you do... <g> dottery old bugger he 
> was too, kept ringing me telling me the remote didnt work *every* time > he needed new batteries (yes we're talking over a period of two or three 
> YEARS here)
> I had no idea they wanted to develop it, and frankly think it would 
> destroy the whole semi rural feel of the area. Bah developers...
> 
> sharon

Not all of Cardiff is weekly collections.

If you're on the wheelie bin scheme, its once every 2 weeks ! You get the rubbish collected one week and the recyclables the next week (though things like fruit, vegetables, salad, potato peelings, tea bags are no longer accepted due to the risk of spreading foot and mouth disease !)

Paul

"<(@l@)>Lightningslim"  wrote in message news:jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
It's not just older properties that have this problem. My house is "only" 22 years old but there is no way from back garden to front garden except through the house and no opening from the back onto the road (Backs onto another property).
So I wouldn't want to keep a wheelie bin at the front of the house, or have to roll it through the lounge!
Besides, I only generate half a black bag in a week. 
I would hate to have food scraps rotting in a bag for two weeks though!
In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.

Mike

"^A^ngel" <angel316(MYWINGS)@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:zgbde.9305$_s1.6227@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...

> 
> "Zo" <if-you-can't-beat 'em@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
> news:3dk4kbF6t0l27U1@individual.net...
>>
>> Which is fine if everyone has the room for all these bins and boxes!
>>
>> Our council (North Lincs) are trying to bring in extra bins now for garden 
>> waste. We already have the normal bin and a blue box for papers. In the 
>> area that I live people don't have enough space to store even more of the 
>> flippin things.
>>
>> As I'm sat now looking across the road, the houses there already have to 
>> have the normal bin stood permantely on the path because there is no where 
>> on the property to store it. Round the back is no good because they don't 
>> have access other than through the house itself.
>>
>> If we end up with more bins/boxes etc the whole frontage of those houses 
>> is going to be obscured by bins, bins and more bins.
>>
>> I recycle what I can - but until I purchase a property with a spare half 
>> acre to store all this gubbins I shall be against having a 
>> "multi-coloured" box and bin collection pushed on to me.
>>
>> zo
>>
>>
> Yeah point taken about the space. Alot of the older style terrace style 
> housing doesnt have room for all this and to get my brown bin to the front 
> when I mow the grass I either have to take it through the house ro get one 
> of the kids or myself to drag it round the path and round the flats to the 
> front. I take the later option myself, prefering to go round rather than 
> drag the bin through the house. Its a monir incovenience really but I would 
> have to take the clippings back through the house anyway to get them to the 
> black bin or drag that round or put them in a compost bin in the back 
> garden.
> 
> I have alrge back garden so the nins dont take up that much space in a > corner of the garden. But guess I am one of the lucky ones. Store my other 
> stuff in a cupboard in the house and the papers in the house under the > breakfast bar. Sure they take up a bit of space in the house but at keast Im 
> doing my bit. Our blue bins for glass plastic and tins could quite easily be 
> stored in a cupboard, for example under the stairs, they dont have to be 
> outside, and alot of my friends and neighbour dont keep them outside.
> 
> Chris
> 
> I guess the councils have to find a solution for peeps who love in this 
> older style terracing woith no front garden becaue the streets will look a 
> mess with bins all over them. 
> 
>

Oh, where are they doing that Paul? First I've heard of it!
Perhaps I should have said "In my part of Cardiff"  :o)

Mike

"Paul Lewis"  wrote in message news:XRnde.21043$p06.7106@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
Not all of Cardiff is weekly collections.

If you're on the wheelie bin scheme, its once every 2 weeks ! You get the rubbish collected one week and the recyclables the next week (though things like fruit, vegetables, salad, potato peelings, tea bags are no longer accepted due to the risk of spreading foot and mouth disease !)

Paul

"<(@l@)>Lightningslim"  wrote in message news:jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
It's not just older properties that have this problem. My house is "only" 22 years old but there is no way from back garden to front garden except through the house and no opening from the back onto the road (Backs onto another property).
So I wouldn't want to keep a wheelie bin at the front of the house, or have to roll it through the lounge!
Besides, I only generate half a black bag in a week. 
I would hate to have food scraps rotting in a bag for two weeks though!
In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.

Mike

"^A^ngel" <angel316(MYWINGS)@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:zgbde.9305$_s1.6227@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...

> 
> "Zo" <if-you-can't-beat 'em@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
> news:3dk4kbF6t0l27U1@individual.net...
>>
>> Which is fine if everyone has the room for all these bins and boxes!
>>
>> Our council (North Lincs) are trying to bring in extra bins now for garden 
>> waste. We already have the normal bin and a blue box for papers. In the 
>> area that I live people don't have enough space to store even more of the 
>> flippin things.
>>
>> As I'm sat now looking across the road, the houses there already have to 
>> have the normal bin stood permantely on the path because there is no where 
>> on the property to store it. Round the back is no good because they don't 
>> have access other than through the house itself.
>>
>> If we end up with more bins/boxes etc the whole frontage of those houses 
>> is going to be obscured by bins, bins and more bins.
>>
>> I recycle what I can - but until I purchase a property with a spare half 
>> acre to store all this gubbins I shall be against having a 
>> "multi-coloured" box and bin collection pushed on to me.
>>
>> zo
>>
>>
> Yeah point taken about the space. Alot of the older style terrace style 
> housing doesnt have room for all this and to get my brown bin to the front 
> when I mow the grass I either have to take it through the house ro get one 
> of the kids or myself to drag it round the path and round the flats to the 
> front. I take the later option myself, prefering to go round rather than 
> drag the bin through the house. Its a monir incovenience really but I would 
> have to take the clippings back through the house anyway to get them to the 
> black bin or drag that round or put them in a compost bin in the back 
> garden.
> 
> I have alrge back garden so the nins dont take up that much space in a > corner of the garden. But guess I am one of the lucky ones. Store my other 
> stuff in a cupboard in the house and the papers in the house under the > breakfast bar. Sure they take up a bit of space in the house but at keast Im 
> doing my bit. Our blue bins for glass plastic and tins could quite easily be 
> stored in a cupboard, for example under the stairs, they dont have to be 
> outside, and alot of my friends and neighbour dont keep them outside.
> 
> Chris
> 
> I guess the councils have to find a solution for peeps who love in this 
> older style terracing woith no front garden becaue the streets will look a 
> mess with bins all over them. 
> 
>

Various areas, I'm in Llandaff / Victoria Park and have been on the scheme for a few years now.

Paul

"<(@l@)>Lightningslim"  wrote in message news:RUnde.10105$_s1.2112@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
Oh, where are they doing that Paul? First I've heard of it!
Perhaps I should have said "In my part of Cardiff"  :o)

Mike

"Paul Lewis"  wrote in message news:XRnde.21043$p06.7106@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
Not all of Cardiff is weekly collections.

If you're on the wheelie bin scheme, its once every 2 weeks ! You get the rubbish collected one week and the recyclables the next week (though things like fruit, vegetables, salad, potato peelings, tea bags are no longer accepted due to the risk of spreading foot and mouth disease !)

Paul

"<(@l@)>Lightningslim"  wrote in message news:jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
It's not just older properties that have this problem. My house is "only" 22 years old but there is no way from back garden to front garden except through the house and no opening from the back onto the road (Backs onto another property).
So I wouldn't want to keep a wheelie bin at the front of the house, or have to roll it through the lounge!
Besides, I only generate half a black bag in a week. 
I would hate to have food scraps rotting in a bag for two weeks though!
In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.

Mike

"^A^ngel" <angel316(MYWINGS)@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:zgbde.9305$_s1.6227@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...

> 
> "Zo" <if-you-can't-beat 'em@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
> news:3dk4kbF6t0l27U1@individual.net...
>>
>> Which is fine if everyone has the room for all these bins and boxes!
>>
>> Our council (North Lincs) are trying to bring in extra bins now for garden 
>> waste. We already have the normal bin and a blue box for papers. In the 
>> area that I live people don't have enough space to store even more of the 
>> flippin things.
>>
>> As I'm sat now looking across the road, the houses there already have to 
>> have the normal bin stood permantely on the path because there is no where 
>> on the property to store it. Round the back is no good because they don't 
>> have access other than through the house itself.
>>
>> If we end up with more bins/boxes etc the whole frontage of those houses 
>> is going to be obscured by bins, bins and more bins.
>>
>> I recycle what I can - but until I purchase a property with a spare half 
>> acre to store all this gubbins I shall be against having a 
>> "multi-coloured" box and bin collection pushed on to me.
>>
>> zo
>>
>>
> Yeah point taken about the space. Alot of the older style terrace style 
> housing doesnt have room for all this and to get my brown bin to the front 
> when I mow the grass I either have to take it through the house ro get one 
> of the kids or myself to drag it round the path and round the flats to the 
> front. I take the later option myself, prefering to go round rather than 
> drag the bin through the house. Its a monir incovenience really but I would 
> have to take the clippings back through the house anyway to get them to the 
> black bin or drag that round or put them in a compost bin in the back 
> garden.
> 
> I have alrge back garden so the nins dont take up that much space in a > corner of the garden. But guess I am one of the lucky ones. Store my other 
> stuff in a cupboard in the house and the papers in the house under the > breakfast bar. Sure they take up a bit of space in the house but at keast Im 
> doing my bit. Our blue bins for glass plastic and tins could quite easily be 
> stored in a cupboard, for example under the stairs, they dont have to be 
> outside, and alot of my friends and neighbour dont keep them outside.
> 
> Chris
> 
> I guess the councils have to find a solution for peeps who love in this 
> older style terracing woith no front garden becaue the streets will look a 
> mess with bins all over them. 
> 
>

On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:33:24 GMT, Cerian wrote:


> In article , Sharon
>  writes
>>Cerian  wrote in news:W4
>>+gqCASbUdCFw6B@iconia.demon.co.uk:
>>
>>> In article <jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net>,
>>> <(@l@)>Lightningslim  writes
>>>>In Cardiff we have a weekly collection.
>>> 
>>> Whereabouts in Cardiff are you Mike?  I lived in various spots over a
>>> 13yr period.  Last one was in Roath.
>>
>>Whitchurch, here.
>>
>>sharon
> 
> I moved to Cardiff to go to Uni and stayed on afterwards - did some
> serious moving around during my Uni years (as you do) but was mostly in
> Roath & Cathays.  Worked for the City Council Parks dept for 9yrs.   I
> miss Roath Park.  
> 
> One everlasting memory of working for the CC was the time that they
> caught a bloke with a stool in the Riding School stables.  I won't go
> into details but you can work it out yourselves when you know he wasn't
> using the stool to get on the horse to "ride" LOL


Still mounting, so that's all right.

"<(@l@)>Lightningslim"  wrote in message 
news:jCbde.2796$%K6.1121@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
It's not just older properties that have this problem.

Yes indeedy but - ooooh don't me started about new properties! ;o)
Rabbit hutches most of them. look nice in the brochure/showhouse but can you 
swing a cat or store a bin? Can you chuff........ :o(

zo

"Paul Lewis"  wrote in
news:VFode.21195$p06.13955@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net: 


> Various areas, I'm in Llandaff / Victoria Park


Blinkin eck, its no wonder I dont win anything around here. Is the Cardiff 
the comping capital of Britain or what? and why, if theres so many of us in 
south wales, dont we have meetings like they do in other areas?

sharon

Funnily enough, I was just thinking the same thing!
Come together Cardiff compers!  :o)

Mike


"Sharon"  wrote in message news:Xns964AA019E9CB4spamebonydragoncouk@130.133.1.4...

> "Paul Lewis"  wrote in
> news:VFode.21195$p06.13955@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net: 
> 
>> Various areas, I'm in Llandaff / Victoria Park
> 
> Blinkin eck, its no wonder I dont win anything around here. Is the Cardiff 
> the comping capital of Britain or what? and why, if theres so many of us in 
> south wales, dont we have meetings like they do in other areas?
> 
> sharon

Im with Stratford Upon Avon Council ( Warwickshire) still weekly here Dee


"Lynda North"  wrote in message
news:oWSce.19286$vU4.11334@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...

> I'm trying to argue a point with my local council and would be grateful
for
> any answers to my question.
>
> My local authority (SKDC in Lincolnshire) has suggested that they should
> replace our weekly bin collections with fortnightly ones as once every two
> weeks is now the "norm" apparently!  As we still use black bin bags, not
> wheelie bins, most local residents are horrified by the problems of
storing
> several bags of rotting waste and the prospect of the smell etc, esp as
> extra bags stored outside the usual bin over a 2 week period will no doubt
> be attacked by dogs, cats, rats etc etc.
>
> Please could anyone with a few spare moments let me know if your area has
> weekly or fortnightly collections as I feel that our local council is
wrong
> in its assumption that fortnightly collections are now "the norm" and they
> are just trying to bamboozle the local public with unfounded claims.  They
> claim that because some households have opted to pay 10 for a green
garden
> waste bin (collected fortnightly) and town households have a weekly old
> newspaper collection that a weekly rubbish collection is no longer
> necessary.
>
> Please reply to  Lnorth@NOSPAMntlworld.com with the following info -
>
> 1) name of authority/County;
>
> 2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)
>
> 3) weekly or fortnightly collections
>
> TIA
>
> Lynda (Smurf)
>
>
>
>

Jane Willis  wrote in message
news:2t79711qkohofq3ighfifp3rs01ln5ve4g@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 01 May 2005 09:10:16 GMT, "^A^ngel"
> <angel316(MYWINGS)@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> >I feel very strongly about this and don't expect my views to be popular,
but
> >what the heck. Where I live we have fortnightly collections and it is
more
> >than enough.
>
> Agreed- we have weekly collections of both recyclables and normal
> rubbish, and if you use the recycling bin sensibly and compost
> vegetable waste it's really hardly worth putting the normal bin out -
> we seldom have enough rubbish to cover the bottom of the bin.


Same here. Not much rubbish in ours at all.

Sarah
--

On Sunday, in article 
     raj@rijhwani.org "Raj Rijhwani" wrote:


> I suspect they are being somewhat disingenuous, anyway.  It is true that 
> at least one council only collects refuse fortnightly, but that's because 
> they collect recyclable materials in the intervening weeks.  I can't 
> remember which one specifically, although I have an inkling it's Hastings 
> or somewhere in that neck of the woods.


It turns out that at least one council is much closer to home, in the 
neighbouring borough of Epsom and Ewell.  Not that anyone really cares, 
I don't suppose.
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:39:32 GMT, "Lynda North" 
wrote:




>1) name of authority/County;

	East Riding County Council


>2) black bags or wheelie bins (or some other system)
	Black Bags
>3) weekly or fortnightly collections
	Weekly

>Lynda (Smurf)


We have no recycling facilities whatsoever provided for home use.
There are bottle banks at various shopping areas. The council is
starting to provide wheelie bins, black or green for non recyclable
and blue for recyclable but we are not do to get ours until April of
next year. Our council must be the worst performer in the country.
IanS

Council tax just gone up to 200 a month and due to rise further next year
with rebanding...Wychavon

Once a week black bags - household rubbish every week, plastic and paper
recycling on alternate weeks.

We have just had notices that they will no longer collect garden rubbish -
if you want it taken away you have to pay 16 for special coloured bags.
They check black bags for garden waste and leave them if they spot a blade
of grass......most people have tried mixing the rubbish but on bin day there
are always several bags left behind stinking with stickers on them.

They also state they will take no bags heavier than 24kg.

This week when they came canvassing for votes I asked them to come back on
polling day and they could smell why I wasn't happy...this and
Worcestershire having the 3rd lowest funded schools in the country......I'd
emigrate if I could cope with competitions in a different language.....!

Jo