00:00In Bristol, routine has long ruled rubbish removal.
00:04Black wheelie bings are collected every two weeks
00:07while recycling boxes, black and green, and brown food bins arrive weekly.
00:14Garden waste for those signed up is also cleared fortnightly.
00:18Bristol City Council, yet even the most disciplined residents,
00:22say that they have been hit by the missed pickups, especially for recycling.
00:27Very, because it can get messy quite quickly, particularly with the food bin.
00:31I mean, back home, when I was living at home prior, I moved in.
00:35The bins would be collected semi-regularly, but it's great to see stuff's being recycled
00:39and they have to get in the swing of these things, so you've got to get them some time.
00:44It's pretty good. It's obviously nice to expect for improvement,
00:48but generally, yeah, I think that's pretty good right now.
00:52Areas like Avonmouth, Redland, Westbury-on-Trimm and Henleys
00:56each reported around 200 missed collections last year,
01:01promoting rising frustration among households left to manage overflowing bins themselves.
01:07With Bristol City Council facing tight budgets and rising waste costs,
01:12a bold plan emerged in early 25,
01:14slash black bins collection to every three or even every four weeks,
01:18while keeping recycling and food waste picked up weekly.
01:22The estimated payoff is a £2.3 million yearly saving from four weekly collections,
01:28plus a potential 10% boost in recycling and 60% cut in carbon emissions.
01:35I think it puts some pressure on people to kind of upcycle and reuse.
01:40I think it wouldn't be such a bad thing, but people have to be informed, actually,
01:46there's a lot of stench around, which is a lot of staunch.
01:53I mean, I can't imagine that. It's like being in Birmingham, isn't it?
01:57They've got a problem, issue with that stuff, eh, whatever.
01:59Where I live, it's down on the Bath Road, and all of our bins are on the street.
02:05It's a mess all the time. We've been complaining about it for years.
02:07There's rats everywhere. It stinks.
02:10And there already wasn't enough bin collections,
02:13and there wasn't enough bins for each building, but there's no space for them.
02:16So it was already kind of in...
02:18It was already a bit of a rubbish situation, excuse the pun.
02:22But I think going to three weeks would be enough.
02:26I think people would want to just move out.
02:28I don't think it would be.
02:30I can't see how it could be a good thing for people.
02:32I think probably money-wise for someone it's quite good,
02:34but I think apart from that, I can't see any benefits.
02:37No, no. No, no, absolutely not.
02:40But I don't know anybody who is.
02:41Is anybody saying that it's great?
02:44No, I don't think so.
02:46No, and I certainly don't think anybody is saying,
02:48that my bin collection is great,
02:51and I wish it was only three weeks.
02:55No, I think it sounds rubbish.
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