There is no point having weekly collections in Shrewsbury. If we did the streets would constanly be littered with empty wheelie bins because people jsut won’t have the rubbish to put in them or recycling. Fair enough if the town was 3 times the size but come on be real, if we go to weekly collections we all know who will end up paying more regardless….Us through council tax!

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I think we should be provided with bins for bottles etc, the curb boxes are NOT big enough!

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This is a luxury we cannot afford, besides what would you do with all the recycling vehicles which have been bought with public money, they would be parked up with nothing to do (they are useless for collecting rubbish because they dont compact)

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ok when the economy recovers maybee it may be nice in the good times to have weekly but right now its not a priority surely

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A Conservative Promise Made is a Conservative Promise Kept, we said fortnightly bins are smelly, we said we would make them weekly, now we are in goverment we are delivering as promised, say goodbye to labours bin taxes and smells, we will empty your bin every week and we’re putting our money where our mouth is so there is no excuse for these moaning local councils not to do what theyre told now

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If rubbish is collected weekly atleast half of the population would not bother recycling, this is not just an assumption but a fact based on observation of actual behaviour in places where rubbish is collected weekly

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If there is so much money sloshing round in the department for local government and communities then why are local councils facing higher cuts than any other part of the government? this depsite being the more efficient part of government and probably the most important certainly the most visible and front line

and why are the biggest cuts being forced on manchester, liverpool, tower hamlets etc whilst places like dorset are having their funding INCREASED

its a scandal what that pickles is doing

proof that its the same old tories

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[Bring back the days when men hauled metal bins over their shoulders and took anything you put out for them……and we paid no extra council tax for them to do it !]

This comment sounds similar to an Andrew Finch remark, Richard.

It’s like certain people in Shropshire have never grown up and moved on with the rest of the world.

The cost of long term support of people with work related injuries has moved us on to wisely using the wheelie bins. Another example is that all sorts of equipment is now used to move and handle people in hospitals and care homes.

There is a greater chance of waste containing medical/chemical toxic materials than in the past.

Both parents today have to earn to raise a family (which is no longer rewarded) and so there tends to be a greater use of convenience food and ready meals and the consequent packaging. This is promoted by the retail sector who make greater profits on such products.

When I was young, Sundays consisted of car washing, lawnmowing and the inevitable polluting garden bonfire on which anything was put, often domestic rubbish.
Combined with coal fires in most homes, more heavy cigarette smoking by people and more industry it was a pretty toxic environment. There were few cars however, so I imagine it may balance out with todays air pollution.

The government sees fit to make money out of people now we have so little industry and agriculture so selling our young people’seducation to those who have money abroad and making us pay for our health is going to make for a very tough future if you stay in the UK.

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If there is one thing that local councils should do (or their contractors) is regular Waste collection.

It is my view that:

We now live in a “modern” society, which has collectively chosen (or developed)a syatem where foodstuffs, goods and other products are supplied to the populace in an extensivley packaged form.

We’ve also been led into a society where fast foods, or ready cooked meals are very much the norm. – And indeed, where “fresh food” is concerned, led to believe “sell by” and “use by dates” – which again adds to uneccessary waste.

As a consequence of this, the amount of “waste”, both in dscarded packaging, and unused food produced by the average household has increased enormously (in the 1950′s – when I was a child – we threw vitually NOTHING away!!)

NOW .. the point is this:
WHY should individuals be penalised for this?
Is it my fault that for example, that food stuffs are in mmany cases triple packed? – is it my fault that supermarkets supply plastic bags when we they could supply paper ones instead?

As far as I’m concerned – I pay a LOT OF COUCIL TAX for someone else to collect and sort all this waste. Its a collective problem produced by the way we all live.

That is NOT to say i’m irresponsible with waste, or indeed dont wish to recylcle – but at the end of the day – the real solution lies FAR beyond “fiddling whilst Rome burns” – making people play at recycling putting this and that into diferent coloured boxes

If government want to change anything – then lets look at the practices surrounding supply – if less packaging was used – we wouldnt have to dispose of it!

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Actually j.b you may find we are not all paying the same. We live in a large house and have four adults living here. Plus the kids partners most weekends.Yes we are lucky to have a large house to accommodate us all but as for paying the same perhaps you would like to pay my council tax which at present is far above £200 per month. Maybe you would like to go back to the poll tax!!!!!!!!!!!( I actually thought that was a very fair system and happily paid it whilst living with my mum and dad)Not many were keen on that though as Maggie found out. I actually agree with recycling but find it almost impossible to keep to one black general rubbish bin.Hopefully this will change now we can put plastics in the recycling.

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I dont need it but then I recycle religiously and I have a home compost bin which deals with all my garden waste and most of my food waste so I think that is why, in fact since the plastic collections started I have nothing but the odd bit of food waste and some non recyclable plastic in my bin these days, i still put it out every time out of habit really and to prevent smells but most times is honestly about one quarter full at most. I would welcome more plastic recycling but for me its not about frequency of collection its about the quality and the range of stuff they collection thats more important that frequency

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if they sacked all the jobsworths in the office they would have more than enough money to empty the bins weekly

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Put that along with subsidies for solar panels, aid for the rich in india, top down reorganisation of the NHS and a load more lords in the house they are all examples of tory government wasting our money on pet projects which just dont deliver

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of course the real point here is that all this comes from Brussels its all EU Regs on Sustainable this and sustainable that is designed to stiffel our competativeness so that the German economy can prosper if we got out of the EU we could have our weekly collections and our tax cuts and make britain truely Great again

Say Non! to the French, Nine to the Germans and Yes to getting out of the EU

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to be honest my bin man does a grand job and i wouldnt want any changes to the current set up its already more than enough thank u

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A resounding ‘no’ then according to the poll and the comments on here. I hope the govt take note. I bet they don’t.

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ref 61 gt

I would hardly call it a luxury! it was the most ridiculous decision when this system was brought into force. Yet another ‘dictorial state decision’ you WILL recycle!!

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