Rubbish Collection in Lockdown

[TheCat]

With everyone at home all the time, is anyone else noticing how ridiculously quickly the bins are filling up?

I'm not sure what proportion of commercial premises/schools etc have council collections versus private contracts, but given high street/commerical estates/schools are likely to be significantly scaled down waste, doesyone have any knowledge on whether it's worth asking the council to perhaps explore reallocating existing resources towards more frequent residential collections....??

[TE44]

Thecat you can maybe ask councillor on his thread.

Its also a good idea to look at using any recycling you would normally put in blue bin, milk cartons/plant pots etc.

[TheCat]

Thanks. Have done so (on both suggestions!)

[James Barber]

Hi TheCat,

Most organisations have commercial waste contracts. I suspect many are cancelled to minimise costs for those organisations. Schools etc are charged by most councils for their rubbish collections. So again I'd expect most schools to cancel their waste contracts while they're closed to conserve their cash and redirect some to iPads and the likes for kids without such devices for home schooling.

[TheCat]

Thanks for the explanation James. Fair enough then, wasn't sure of the relative utilisation of existing services, but sounds like there's negligible spare capacity within existing resources.