Councils Paid To Bring Back Weekly Bin Rounds

The money would be better spent on Social Services, Education, NHS and Child Care. Just because some people can't sort their rubbish and recycle what they need to. It is just a sop to some of the voters who can't cope with change. Add this to the bizarre 80 mph proposal and we are on our way to dramatic climate change and all they can do is put a foot on the accelerator.

£,250. million should be spent on N H S, not bins .I worked 40 years as a bin man. We as taxpayers will pay

How many Councils will refuse to go back to weekly collections and can they refuse ?

In Paris, another densely inhabited capital, bin collections are daily from every buildings, recycling weekly.... and they do take all the bins even if lid ajar because it's too full.
And by the way council tax is half the price... do you want me to continue??

The goverment are paying the councils then...I thought it was us, the taxpayers?

This makes me furious; the council are a big waste of money to this country most of the time. they spend all our money on things that mostly only matters to them, around us they have built 2 new massive office blocks on a new site, their was nothing wrong with the old ones, they just wanted a swanky new one, when driving to my local town I passed a roundabout with 2 council workers parked up on it, one had been pruning the rose's the other sat on the swanky new ride on mower drinking tea, merrily chatting away, not working, lazing in the sunshine, upon passing this right next to them is 4 massive pot holes, **** the flowers, FIX the b***** road, but oh no they are broke they cant afford to fix the road, yet they can afford this brand new mower, land rover, trailer and them to spend a day gardening, their argument is if the town looks pretty people will visit it more, my argument is if i didn’t have a 4x4 i wouldn’t be able to get their as most of our roads are like an ox drove/by way!.
Further more when they collect our rubbish we have. all following each other, one lorry 4 rubbish one lorry for cardboard, one lorry for gardening and some times another for god knows what!, all run on diesel, not bio fuel or something green, normal fuel, how much impact is this having on the environment? Compared to the one truck and them sorting the recycling like they once did? Giving more jobs also, bet their diesel costs and price of these brand new each yr trucks, would employ 6 or so workers for each town, main problem is the council are now a business not a town support

What a waste of £250 Million in the current economic climate - this is just a Tory Stunt, and won't do anything to encourage recycling. We are running out of landfill sites. This is just a political 'stunt' just before the Tory Conference - disgusting. What else will the Tories cut, to make up the money spent on this nonsense.

We can not put our green waste in with our normal rubbish. we have to buy special green bags @ £1.20 a bag to put our garden waste in. Fine, no probs untill I found out that that green bag goes in the same collection that the normal waste goes. Asking the council why they do this, the response was that they could not afford to do green collections, but they can not take grass cuttings in normal bin bags. Doh?????

Twice weekly collecting worked fine, it's getting people to put rubbish in bins in the first place that seems to be the problem.

Who care about weekly bin collection!? shouldn't the money be spent on something way more useful!? like hospitals......police......fire service? boo hoo your rubbish hasn't been collected......well go to the dump then! Not that hard!
This money could be spent way better elsewhere!

So Roy lives on his own and likes to see flies and other creepy crawlies around his bin when it`s not been emptied for 2 weeks? If stuff is recyclable fair enough but houses with small children fill their bins up fast with non-recyclables. There is a health hazard when bins are not emptied. Recyclable waste can be collected anytime, it doesn`t go off. Councils used to empty both bins on the same day, with green/brown bins being emptied fortnightly and black weekly so why can`t they do the same now? Does it matter to councils what colour bin is emptied, they still have to collect the same amount.

i think its time that companies like supermarkets start to help subsidise these extra rubbish collection costs or stop wrapping their goods in mountains of plastic.

Cheating Councils will claim the money and spend it on something else like so called official trips abroad. They already use rules intended for a particular purpose and apply those rules to something else like snooping on its residents.So why wouldn't they with money, our money by the way.

would it not be better to use the money to get us out of the recession!

Pay them to give back what they took away in the first place, it's all a load of cobblers.

oh yay the council tax is going to go up

Doesn't it sound great when the government say that is what people want, so why all the cuts? Is that what people want? Very interesting explanation......

In Canada everything goes weekly and everything recyclable is taken. If you take stuff to the recycle centre they PAY you for it. Cuts down on litter and dumping of bottles & cans.

Hold on a bit £250 mill handout to councils to pay private foriegn companies like Veolia to collect our waste that our council taxes already pay for. This just doesn't sound right does it.Then again what is right with this flipping country these days. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

my conservative council in carlisle cumbria say they will not bring in weekly collections, what gives councillors the right to say what is best for people BIG BROTHER you will do as we tell you we know best, the conservative councillor who said we cant have weekly collections is going against his own government, so will he resign or join the labour party,