Pedants' Paradise

[french frank]

Here food and recyclables are collected every week. Black rubbish bins once a fortnight - which I think is a good thing. People should be encouraged to reduce the amount of stuff that goes into landfill or - worse in some ways - is incinerated. And I say unto you: reduce, reuse, recycle. And the greatest of these is ... reduce :-)

[LMcD]

... here we get food bins emptied weekly - but the recycling bin and the rubbish bin are emptied twice a week



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Here, it's anything recyclable (blue bin) and garden waste (brown bin) one week and anything bagged (grey bin) the next. The brown bin (which I don't use) costs an additional £52.50 a year.

[vinteuil]

In this age of "small mercies" I guess we have to appreciate Southwark council for still providing weekly collections for all our bins.

... here we get food bins emptied weekly - but the recycling bin and the rubbish bin are emptied twice a week



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[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, good point, oddoneout. I do tell the council litter bin emptiers that I think they're doing a valuable job.

Which hopefully they know! I always thank them (when I catch them) for returning the bins to the bins compound rather than as usual leaving them at the end of our collective driveway, blocking residents' garages, where it is then up to Yours Truly (the one retired regular in the block) to do. In this age of "small mercies" I guess we have to appreciate Southwark council for still providing weekly collections for all our bins.

[smittims]

Yes, good point, oddoneout. I do tell the council litter bin emptiers that I think they're doing a valuable job.