Fortnightly rubbish collections.
There’s been talk recently about Councils moving to fortnightly collections for rubbish. This is all in the context of increases in recycling meaning there is less actual rubbish. In Edinburgh we are up to 26% household waste being recycled, good but still much more to do ( http://intranet.edinburgh.gov.uk/sustainable+development/resources.jsp ).
Of course it’s all about how you tell the story. The introduction of recycling uplifts means we have more collections of rubbish, not less so moving to fortnightly rubbish collections would mot be an overall reduction from previous times, simply a reflection of changes in how we collected our waste. Yet I can see how it is perceived as a reduction. One woman said to me recently that she though she should get the binmans wages now that she had to sort it all out!
We need to take this all a step at a time. Certainly in Edinburgh, if, and that’s a big if, we go to fortnightly collections we need to do it slowly and by taking folk with us making sure they are not feeling something is being taken away without something else to replace it.
Of course it’s all about how you tell the story. The introduction of recycling uplifts means we have more collections of rubbish, not less so moving to fortnightly rubbish collections would mot be an overall reduction from previous times, simply a reflection of changes in how we collected our waste. Yet I can see how it is perceived as a reduction. One woman said to me recently that she though she should get the binmans wages now that she had to sort it all out!
We need to take this all a step at a time. Certainly in Edinburgh, if, and that’s a big if, we go to fortnightly collections we need to do it slowly and by taking folk with us making sure they are not feeling something is being taken away without something else to replace it.
posted by Councillor Ewan Aitken at
2:02 pm
