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Thieving Councils to Scrap Refuse Collections
BillieTheBot
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An absolute disgrace, as the Tories rightly point out, for most people its the only thing they actually get for their rip-off council tax. Strangely enough, paying the £200k salaries of the council executives doesn't rate highly in their estimations.
Either councils should do their job properly or council tax should be halved. All councils are staffed by robbing bastards as it is, without giving them even more reason to be work-shy whilst demanding disgusting tax rises.
Time to sack the lot of em.
An absolute disgrace, as the Tories rightly point out, for most people its the only thing they actually get for their rip-off council tax. Strangely enough, paying the £200k salaries of the council executives doesn't rate highly in their estimations.
Either councils should do their job properly or council tax should be halved. All councils are staffed by robbing bastards as it is, without giving them even more reason to be work-shy whilst demanding disgusting tax rises.
Time to sack the lot of em.
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I don't agree with the proposals but I know I personally don't require a weekly collection as our bin is never more than half full. The people next door (there are only two adults in that household too) have a bin full and extra bags every week and it makes me wonder how they create so much waste!
Rip off Britain continues to reign supreme.
It's a ridiculous idea done more for money-saving and penny-pinching than anything else.
If you get half a service you should get your tax bill halved.
Aladdin, of course local authorities in other countries are cheaper- their councils aren't staffed by management who earn six-figure salaries whilst doing six-minute weeks.
My parents have a two weekly collection, but they are given proper bins (unlike us in London) and they are given good recycling collections too.
Just cutting the collections without helping people cut down waste is stupid.
Kermit; you could cut the council tax in half and frankly a lot of councils wouldnt really notice, they get 75% of their funding from central government.
But we have a small household and could get away with it. If we had children, especially young children, then we probably couldn't. A lot of things cannot be recycled- you can't recycle my cat's litter, for instance.
Let it poop in other people's gardens
I actually take offense to that statement. I work for a local government and work very hard. If you like I can give you a complete breakdown of all the work I have done this week.
We have been running a fortnightly collection here for over a year and after the settling in period were we couldn't remember which collection it was (Refuse or recycle) and which items ar recyclable I think it works very well.
As someone already stated if it's managed correctly then no reason why it can't work. We are a family with 3 kids and we have no overflowing bins. On the odd occasion were we have maybe had a party or something we have an abundance of rubbish but nothing a trip to the local skip can't solve.
Having said that, we recycle more now than we ever have done in the past and unlike lots of councils we have been provided with a recycling wheelie bin rather than a box, we used to have a box at our last house but it was too small and we were always running out of space, so at least with the wheelie bin we can fit all our plastic bottles, newspapers, paper, cans etc into that and not run out of space.
My personal opinion is that 95% of work undertaken by Local Authorities doesn't need to be done and, indeed, shouldn't be done.
Council Tax is a complete waste of money, and it always has been.
Where the fuck are you buying them from then? Certainly not ASDA...
And aren't you using Wheelie Bins like the rest of the council area? So why buy bin bags at all...
Do you know what Local Authorities do?
What's your solution?
Outsource waste management, landscaping, roads, graveyard upkeep, schools (from teaching through to cleaning), social work, housing (rental, repairs, etc..), planning applications and building standards, libraries, births/deaths/marriages (the list goes on) to private companies?
Sure there are people (as in any organisation) who are coining in overearned salaries but do you think by privatising everything it will cost less?
the councils waste contractor. they will only take a certain type.
5 students and a fortnightly wheeliebin...
Perfect example as why "outsourcing" screws people over.
I lived in canterbury last year, which is when they brought in the fortnightly collection. We got the specified recycling bags for free from the tip or the council offices (if the ones they dropped by your door got nicked), and normal rubbish needed to be put in a canterbury council wheelie bin. Has this changed then?
I will say that larger households were given larger wheelie bins. It worked well for us. There were three students in our house, and becasue of the new scheme we recycled tons more.We had about 4 bags of recycling every other week, and maybe only 2/3 normal bags. I will agree however that if they aren't collecting once a week why are we still payin them the same.
But they are collecting once a week!!
Once for recycle and then next week for general waste.
It's also more expensive for all of us.
The wonders of privatisation never cease.
House of five (one a baby so plenty of nappies!), small whellie bin and we're in the same town.
Seriously, I think you need to look at what you are chucking out...
Why you take offense to a factual statement is unclear to me.
(How hard you work doesn`t seem relevant).
At your next staff get together with the big cheeses, is there any chance you would suggest that all the services you provide are offered on a voluntary(the ability to refuse the "offer") basis to potential customers ?
One week it is black bins, which is general waste, and then on the alternate week we have a brown dustbin collection, which is another bin the same size for garden waste and vegetable peelings etc.
Recycling is collected every week, and there are two boxes - a red one with a lid for paper and clothing (but not the Yellow Pages!) and a blue one for tins, bottles, glass and plastic. You are asked to make sure it's washed up recycling but that's no more effort than normal washing up really.
It was a bit of a pain to start with, until people got used to it but it's fine now. The bins might smell a bit more in the heat of the summer but we never have any meat waste in ours so it was never a problem. The brown bin is a godsend because you can put all the cleanings out from the rabbit cages in it.
Miffy, do you have a normal sized bin? I think if you have 6+ people living in your household you can apply for a bigger dustbin. We've got one and it's better than the smaller one.
council policy, actually.
I blame landfill tax. Don't you just yearn for the days when councils could just dump rubbish everywhere....
You also can't compare local authorities from country to country. Different councils in different countries have different role (in the UK for example education is local authority funded which isn't true in other countries) and the amount you pay locally only pays for about 25% of the local authority - national tax pays the rest.