We have had fortnightly collections for 10 years now, and I have never had any problem with it as we recycle as much as poss, (and always have,) and even with 4 of us in our family, the grey bin is often only two thirds full, even after a fortnight.

Our council collects the re-cyled stuff one week, and the other stuff the next.... and TBH we've never had any problems...   but there are only two of us, so......

I have to admit, it's never been a problem for me as I live on my own and don't generate much rubbish. I put my bin out every two weeks with the recycling, but I can see that peeps with families etc would have problems.

In my last year of living in England the council started collecting rubbish one week and recycling stuff the next. I remember having some difficulties (there were three of us) cos the plastic bottles piled up and we didn't recycle plastic then In retrospect we should've crushed the bottles flat... *thoughtful face*

I'm surprised Cameron isn't pushing his Big Society BS and saying that locals should collect their own rubbish

There's only 2 in my house as well and we seem to managed ok with the fornightly collections, except at this time of year then both bins are full  just put the recycling bin out and it's a good job i looked in as daughter has been sorting her room  out and she's chucked everytgong but the kitchen sink in the wrong bin

In my town, if you have three to six or children you get two grey bins, and if you have over six, you get three.  Not many people do have that many kids though, but the ones that do, do get more bins. 

We've always had weekly collections of both rubbish and recycling here

I'm in Glasgow we always get a weekly bin collection.We also have a monthly re-cycle bin collection for ,tins,plastic and paper.A monthly collection for glass and a fortnightly collection for garden waste.This means we have three large wheely bins  and a half size wheely bin for the glass.We do have a garden though and have space for them.

Ah Katty. It's odd? We have a grey bin for ordinary household rubbish, a blue bin for glass and cans and paper and (some) plastics and a green bin for garden waste 

Har! Our colours are green for general domestic waste,blue for plastics etc,brown for garden stuff and purple for glass.

Green box for normal recycling, white bag for plastics, blue bag for paper and a green bag for garden waste.

Our council did do fortnightly collections of the recycling for a while but we are back to weekly. I fill both my normal bin and my recycling bin (which is bigger) every week. If it were fortnightly the extra bags would have to be out for the foxes to rip up and drags up and down the street.

Bags are useless where I am,we all have gardens and urban foxes.I don't mind the foxes,but if stuff is not placed in the wheelie bins they will rip the bags to bits.I'm in a four in a block cottage flats,my upstairs neighbour is a pensioner on her own,so If I need to use her bins ,she's happy to let me.  Ahem I missed the glass collection last month so had two months worth of glass jars ,bottles etc.She had about three jars in hers,mine was up to the brim with er,,,glass jars etc..It got emptied yesterday.I blame my niece and her pals....beer bottles wine bottles etc..

Your niece!!...of course. I believe you, truly I do

It's turoooooo! They had  budweiser crates and  em... even Buckie!

Yeah my recycling bin seems to be somewhat fuller for Saturday too 

Our council are fecking useless    we are supposed to have bin collections once a week but our bin men 'accidentally' forget to come so have to come back on another day (on overtime of course) to remove the black bags.  By which time rats, cats and foxes have trashed them and most of the contents are either on the pavement or in the road. 

We have paper recycling one week and green waste the following week.  Considering Brum City Council is the largest, it's the worst at recycling

We have fortnightly collections...black (general) and brown (compostable) one week and then blue (recyclable paper/cardboard/plastic but NOT glass) the next. It was blue bin this week...only they refused to take ours cos some fecking git had stealthed us after the bins were put out and put the wrong rubbish in the bin  so now WE have to dispose of the whole lot...what a treat. We rang the coucil and told them we had taken out the non-recyclable stuff but were informed that the whole lot was contaminated as was our problem. Fuming doesn't even cover it.

it's times like these where you'd love to bundle up all that rubbish and dump it in the doorway of the local council offices 

We have a grey wheelie bin for 'normal' rubbish, a green one for garden and food waste, plastic sacks for paper, plastic and tin, and a blue bin for glass.

The food waste is collected every week, with normal rubbish one week and recycling stuff the next week.

My normal rubbish wheelie bin is rarely full and there are five of us living here, sometimes six.

Ours are pretty good..,the recycling gets taken in the morning and if there wrong stuff in it then the whole bin is tagged and it gets emptied with the general collection in the afternoon.

We do have a bin for food waste too but myself and most of the neighbours have stopped using it and the food goes in with the general waste. This has stopped all the maggots, the flies and the smell!

Our council was always useless so when they started the new fortnightly scheme we opted out and went with a private company.  Good job we did - you wanna see the carnage, chaos and general uproar in our village every other week!

Get a waste disposal fitted; saves on all that maggot and fly business.

here we have  a general bin and an organic bin (which used to be garden waste) - they are collected on alternative weeks - we then have  abox for bottles/tins etc , newspaper bag an d a small container which is for food waste -  the bags are bought in tesco etc  to fit it which are collected weekly but separately

Get a wormery   much cheaper and you can feed your worms almost any food (they don't eat onions, lemons etc.,) and the bonus is they produce lovely compost for your garden 

Oh I'm on the frickin' phone the next day if they don't show.I get the usual response "Was your wheelie  bin lid shut tight etc,and on the kerbside?"   Aye it bloody was says I,they missed the whole street! They usually appear within the next few hours and deal with it.

You have to watch what you chuck into a wormery,no meat produce at all.Our garden waste bin is for hedge,grass clippings and small  fine branches etc.That is composted at the council site and used for parks etc.

You also have to watch what plastics you recycle. Me? To kill any doubt all mine go in the 'ordinary' bin now 

My mum does that ... her green recycling box is as clean as the day it was delivered, she shoves everything, food - the lot, in the ordinary bin.

Our bins were overflowing over Christmas, so I asked her if I could put some recycling in her bin ... she said no, as she didn't want to get it dirty  

I've got a few compost bins scattered around the garden

Fussy little blighters aren't they

ROFL!!!!! 

We still get weekly bin collections.We have the black bin which is picked up weekly which is just normal rubbish. Then we have a green bin done fortnightly which is garden rubbish. The bottle bag and tins and newspapers are picked up fortnightly. Then in the new year we are getting slop bins for our food scraps. I hate Wednesdays it feels like I work for the council when I put them all out.

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A stand up comedian recently described it as filing rubbish on behalf of the council.

We found out we were sorting it then it was all being delivered to the same place and tipped into the same hole.

we have a black bin for household rubbish collected every week. .then a brown one for garden stuff, a green one for recycling and a black one for glass and those take it in turns every other week to be collected..

I have no more room for any more bins.. it's like a dalek invasion around here . .I live in a two story maisonette so in the space of what would be two houses there are 4 flats and all have the same amount of bins each..  it's madness

I quite like the German way. Large community bins discreetly hedged off.

I manage fine with my bins but I am on my own if there is a family of four or more I would imagine it would be quite hard, a few of my neighbours have put a black bag out in the past with the bin  and the bin men have told them they are not allowed to take them,even though I manage fine I dont like the thought of food staying in my bin for two weeks everything goes in a black bag first,I threw out fruit once in a carry bag when I opened the bin there was fruit flies swarming in my bin I now spray fly spray in my bin just to be safe