Dave Liquorice wrote:

So instead of having the streets clogged up once a week (or fortnight)
with the bin wagons you either have a load of them throughout a single
day or "bin days" spread through the week. Wonderful, not.

Of course I doubt it would take long for these private operators to come
to "an arrangement" where they collect "each others" rubbish.

They way they run the scheme in Southend on Sea (private refuse
cointractors) seems reasonable - they furnish two sets of bags to
householders, pink translucent ones and normal black sacks. You stick
anything recyclable into the pink sacks (list on the side - but they
take most stuff), and other rubbish into the black ones. Once per week
they send round two sets of collection crews (about 1 hr appart), first
one lifts all the pink sacks, and the next takes the black ones. The
only thing they seem to ask is you tie up the sacks and leave them
neatly on the pavement beside your property. They handle all the sorting
of the recycleable stuff. Hence if you have one week with extra rubbish
you put out extra bags, nice and easy!

Round here you are only allowed one wheelie bin load week with no
overspill sacks (appart from two or three "holiday season" specials per
year), and a blue box of (limited) recyclables they they collect once
per fortnight while making a huge noise!


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Cheers,

John.

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