I only put one small bag into my household waste bin. I live in QLD and if we were doing fortnightly pick ups I would simply put the waste into the freezer and pull it out on bin day. I would be ok with it as long as the charge on the rates bill was halved also.

I think this is a ridiculous idea.

I am shocked that more councils don’t have green waste bins

We have cut down so much on our rubbish, especially with the recycle program now for bottles

Some households produce excessive amounts of rubbish, so a fortnightly collection would see them either overfilling their bins and rubbish being blown everywhere or keeping it in their houses until the bin was emptied. I know there’s a chance here for people to consider what they are actually throwing away each day but then I think of those with babies and toddlers in nappies. The smell alone is bad enough after a day let alone 2 weeks! I myself only have a 1/2 full bin each week but the nappies…

Our general bin is collected weekly and ours is usually only half full. Recyclable and Green waste bin is collected fortnightly but can’t imagine we would cope with the green waste bin under its current collection if food waste was also included.

Yep, here in tassie, our rubbish is collected fortnightly. Our bins rarely make it to half full, there are only 2 of us at home tho. I think it’s a great idea to have a separate bin for food waste to use as compost. They wouldn’t get mine tho cos I use it as compost myself

We have had them swap our hins, reduce the size and they offered a small deduction in rates, not half.

I bet they wouldn’t cut the rates in half though

I worry about the dog and cat waste that would fester in my bin for a fortnight. Other than that, I don’t have a problem with fortnightly waste collection for general waste. Our bin is rarely over half full and we are four adults. We have much more issue with recycling. Thank goodness the can and bottle recycling was brought in here in nsw so those can be seperated out. Now we can almost always fit all our recycling in the fortnightly bin. Sometimes we have to go bin hunting to find a partly empty recycling bin to take the rest of our recycling. Thankfully there is a block of flats down the street where there are almost always only partially full recycling bins for us to add our overflow to. I wish they would pick up the recycling weekly. We hardly ever put out our green garden bin because there is very little in it most times.

This is ridiculous! We pay these exorbitant amounts for rates and then they want to offer less services? NO way! If this happened in Tassie we’d be up poo creek because our general waste bins are a lot smaller anyway.

Our recycling bins get emptied fortnightly and that works well for us. It’s the rubbish, that smells terrible, that would be a problem if it was not collected weekly. Everyone in our street seems to have overflowing garbage bins on a Friday so I can’t imagine how we would all manage if this went fortnightly.

Our recycle bins have been getting emptied fortnightly ever since we got them. The household rubbish has always been picked up weekly.

Our recycling bins are already collected fortnightly.

As a member of Penrith council in Sydney this has been happening for years,We have three bins,Yellow bin for recycle and fortnight collection,Red bin for general also fortnight collection and a green bin that is for garden waste and food scraps from the home that is collected weekly.We are a family of five (three teenage kid’s) and we cope very well,We see bins put out with lids half open and rubbish hanging out from a two person property,Some people require more education than others.Cheer’s Krusty.

It’s a good way to encourage recycling

Sure would cope.
We’re with the six of us and general rubbish is weekly, but we often set the bin only 2 or 3 weekly out. We’re have a recycle bin for paper, cardboard, tins and glass, which we have emptied 2 weekly and which we have quite full. At our previous house we had 3 bins; general rubbish, green bin and recycle bin of paper glass and tins.

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  I think it’s a great idea ! We have to start thinking about the rubbish we create, be more conscious about the effect on earth and sea and recycle more

I think anything that promotes and encourages people to sort their waste is a good idea. We have a worm farm and use REDcycle and our weekly bin is only ever half full. We also have a toddler… so it is possible! However, I do agree that the smell of the bin would be horrid!

We have had this in place in my area for over a year and it is going great, we hardly ever put out red bin out (which is the landfill bin), we fill our green bin with garden waste, because I feed my worm farm and compost with food waste. Our recycle bin is fortnightly alternating with the red bin, the green is every weekly. Locals are doing really well with it, but unfortunately tourists and holiday makers in my area are not, so a lot goes to landfill if all mixed up. I also take all my plastic bags/wrappers to the redcycle bin in the supermarkets, once you get the hang of it, it is really easy. I would like to see a pick up happening for plastic wrappers though. Find our your local redcycle bin is and what you can recycle here:
http://www.redcycle.net.au/where-to-redcycle/

As a family of 5 our small rubbish bin only goes out fortnightly. We recycle everything that can be and we have a compost bin, which was supplied to us by our local council with biodegradable bags. I think if they supplied a new small bin for food and green waste, it might not be an issue? Also make the recycling bins weekly
My only concern is though, have they resolved the issue with China and our recycling?