Recycling and rubbish collections

It is untrue that collections of recyclable rubbish are being halved, the number of collections remains the same. Blue and yellow are now collected on alternative weeks, meaning you will put out twice as much yellow every 2 weeks, twice as much blue every 2 weeks. At a guess, this change is based on economics / efficiency of concentrating on one type of bag at a time, both at initial collection and later at the sorting centre.

We're a family of 6, we produce a maximum of 3 yellow bags every 2 weeks, 1 blue bag every 2 weeks, 2 white bags every 2 weeks. I cannot see the problem storing the yellow and blue bags and I wouldn't even think to put recycling into the white bag, firstly because I'll be fined and secondly because it's giving someone the unnecessary job of removing my recyclable rubbish at the sorting centre. There are easy things you can do to reduce your recycled rubbish like buying goods which are not in plastic containers (no bottled water, no coke etc, just drink tap water!!!). I crush all the plastic bottles to get more in the bag blue, I compact card paper for the yellow bag. Storing a yellow or blue bag extra per week is really not very much space lost, especially if you fill the bags to capacity and efficiently.