Bristol Considers Monthly Bins Collections
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We pay a premium for council services and we are seeing a big erosion in them as time goes on
Now Bristol council has decided black bin rubbish may only be collected once a month to save money
It is every 3 weeks at the moment
So what will happen to all that waste that is left festering in the summer months especially ?
All i can see is a big increase in rats and bags ripped open by hungry pets
And despite them stating there won't be an increase in illegal dumping i would beg to differ
What will be the next cost saving exercise , take your own rubbish to landfill ?
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/black-bins-bristol-could-collected-9887142

Maybe a cutback on council pensions so they are in line with private sector pensions? Considering how incompetent they are their pensions should be half that of the private sector not double. It's no surprise though, interest payments on all the debt now is becoming unmanageable and yet still the politicians are not admitting we are in a financial crisis due to decades of stupid decisions and giving away money plus joining a single market we could not compete in. The US is in the same situation, debts they are struggling to pay and facing defaulting on their debt. China is selling US debt at a huge rate, they don't expect it to be paid. I guess they want to sell it before they invade Taiwan where the debt would likely be written off if still held by China.

BonzoBanana I have a cost saving idea for them B, get the lazy pen pushers making these decisions off their derrieres and out on the street collecting the rubbish , that will save a few million

telmel Lets face it councils will be selling off council houses, stripping services to the bone and having a huge number of redundancies and yet still that probably won't solve their financial problems totally. All it will do is delay bankruptcy probably rather than prevent it. Of course this depends on the council, some have staggering debts that will be difficult to get on top of and others have more moderate debts that maybe can be dealt with fully.

BonzoBanana I had another cost saving idea B, start using low risk prisoners that spend all day playing games in their comfy cells to collect the refuse, tagged and monitored of course , if they do a good job they could be awarded time deducted from their sentences

That's a joke I struggle with it every 3 weeks with 4 of us that's when they do empty mine every week I'm emailing the council coz they have missed my bin

Couldn't imagine that, every 2 weeks for us and that's too long sometimes, after Christmas it was a 4 weeker and that was ridiculous, ok if you live alone but not if you have a big family.

We’re weekly (as it stands) but our local council wanna go two weeks, I wouldn’t be able to do with that let alone 4 weeks

telmel I must admit as a single person without kids I typically have loads of space in my bin and that is every 3 weeks collection. It's service that will have greater or lesser needs depending on how many people live there. It obviously punishes families especially larger families, I guess single people and perhaps retired couples will cope with it pretty well. However summer of course is a big issue too that effects everyone.

Wow only two of us we get ours emptied both bins every week , imagine the dirt and smell of monthly collections. Council tax going up collections go down lol

I couldn't imagine having to wait that long for them to collect the black bins. It is bad enough now with it every other week. Fly tipping would become extremely bad and my local tip would never cope with the amount of people needing it if this happened.

It's funny there is all these cut backs but then year on year they get wage rises even though a lot of money issues are caused by mismanagement

Ours is emptied every three weeks and we struggle with that, we are taking our extra bags to family members bins who live alone, it’s just wrong in so many ways!!!

Nooo no & thrice nay & I don't even live there!
Just seen what no bins emptied in Sheffield for three weeks has done..
Our Brown recycling bin is full to the brim,I have squashed some of the plastics & tin cans down but after putting more on top it's now saying: I've eaten enough, leave me alone woman!!
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