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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Some councils in the UK now collect rubbish fortnightly rather than every week - how does that compare to other European countries?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6591579.stm

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Also landfill sites in the UK could be all filled in 10 years.

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:40 am Post subject:

Incinaration ( that doesn't look right)
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Geddon

You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

iknewdavidjacobsmum · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336

Same problems in Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_26/04/2007_82800
Most country places have big communal waste bins which are emptied frequently. Just take your garbage for a stroll.

firewirefred · Guest

We regularly visit southern Spain, and our villa gets a refuse bin collection every morning of the week.... at 3.00am!

We just put our rubbish into a communial bin (there is about one per small street). There are lots of opportunities to recycle as well - bottles, green waste, paper. I cannot see what the problem is. Of course, people should create less waste to begin with, something that many people find impossible to do is this stupid society we live in where everything is a problem for others to sort out not ourselves.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/26/nbin226.xml

A letter from someone the other day also said that in Majorca rubbish was collected twice or three times a week, and the bins cleaned at the same time.

Most councils appear to be adopting fortnightly collections - picking up recyclable ("green") rubbish one week and the rest ("black") the next. Since the rubbish in this household is 50:50 and we securely wrap food rubbish I have no trouble with that.
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