To bin or not to bin

[lesrae]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Sounds like a load of old rubbish to me

Ka-boom-tish

We've had the fortnightly wheelie bin collections and weekly recycling collections here for about 18 months now. It works fine for us, compostable rubbish into a brown sealed box collected weekly, general recycling (paper, metal, glass) in a black box collected weekly and everything else in the wheelie bin collected fortnightly.

The main complaint seems to be about smells/rats etc, but if you use the system properly there's no need for that - it's people who leave food waste in the bin for 2 weeks that have the problem. Also, the people who dump food waste straight into the composting box and never clean it out - disgusting in my opinion. We buy the compostable plastic liner bags, working out at 10p a week or so, and rinse the thing out every week.